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Report, edit, etc...Posted by KrAzY on 2005-02-03 at 10:24:09
For somehow I made a UMS melee just for fun then Yoshi thinks it's rigged... Usually my maps are never rigged.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Yoshi da Sniper on 2005-02-03 at 11:17:10
QUOTE(I_am_Voyager7456 @ Feb 3 2005, 07:53 AM)
I found that its usually alot better to just download maps from sites like Staredit or other map-making sites. There's alot less rigged maps. It is annoying that people rig maps... especially when they don't change the name and it overwrites the other version...  mad.gif
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Thats because we don't allow rigged versions smile.gif and we check 'em too.


QUOTE(Shadow Paladin @ Feb 3 2005, 09:23 AM)
Who are we to decide if a map is balanced or not  =/
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Its kind of obvious when everyone starts off with a 9999 hp 9999 damage ghost on a map with normal zerg units as your opponent. There are minor imbalances which are sometimes okay and just as fun, and then there are major, which is all I see on battle.net now. For real.


QUOTE(krazydrunkking @ Feb 3 2005, 10:24 AM)
For somehow I made a UMS melee just for fun then Yoshi thinks it's rigged... Usually my maps are never rigged.
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Actually I was just ticked off. I was fine with it.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by .Coko[CK] on 2005-02-03 at 12:34:43
They are just the part of everyday life, just play private matches for important "fun - playing" if you hate rigged matches, else accept it'll happen.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Fortune on 2005-02-03 at 12:36:03
QUOTE(Shadow Paladin @ Feb 3 2005, 09:23 AM)
Who are we to decide if a map is balanced or not  =/
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I agree with this, but opinions rule over battle.net so we don't have much choice. No matter who's right there will always be another opinion to stir up some censored.gif .
Report, edit, etc...Posted by chuiu on 2005-02-03 at 12:46:20
I'm only going to say this once.

If you find a rigged map, unrig it, lock it and play it a few times on battlenet so people can get the good version of it.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by TheOddAngel on 2005-02-03 at 13:14:17
Thats a problem when you have a LATENCY problem... I can't even join games... and all the games I seem to be able to join are little Madness Games... Very dumb... I hope people realize theres nothing we can do... There will always be someone who decides to see what will happen when they beat this map and so they rigg it for fun and see what happenes...
Report, edit, etc...Posted by NeoNightmareX on 2005-02-03 at 14:38:51
the way i see it yoshi, the only thing we can do that is within reasonable limits is to not allow any rigged maps here, its not like we are going to find every single map avalible and every version and un-rig them, what can we do but beat the newbs who rig them and make them seem like complete : censored.gif : heads

Btw, can you guys fix this emoticon? it was my favorite and i cant use it cry.gif
Report, edit, etc...Posted by LegacyWeapon on 2005-02-03 at 14:58:03
QUOTE(Tarh @ Feb 3 2005, 07:39 AM)
You cannot stop a map from being rigged.  It is just that simple.  Just as simple, in fact, as you cannot protect a map.  There is no native map encryption in starcraft, only attempts by programmers to add things into the map code (or remove, or change things) that makes it still readable by a starcraft error bypass and unreadable by staredit or any map editor.

The problem is, if anyone knows the structure of a CHK file, they can simply extract the CHK and determine the differences.  That way, they can reverse the differences and have an unprotected map.  In fact, there are many guides out there on how to unprotect the most common protections (including the newest version of PROEdit).

Although it is unlikely that any noob who can't even win your map would be able to extract the CHK and hex edit it back to normal, you might be surprised.

So, in conclusion, you cannot make an unriggable map.  If somebody is stupid and sucks enough, they will unrig your map.  The only way to stop it is to use a combination of protection methods, and add some of your own.  You cannot stop the hackers, only delay them.

Although, it wouldn't help to beg for them to stop in the trigger code  tongue.gif
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That is true. But as of right now the publicized steps to unprotect ProEdit v1.4.1 are so long I highly doubt anyone would do it.

People who rig maps are generally the ones that don't like challanges closedeyes.gif
I think they should just quit.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Chill on 2005-02-03 at 15:13:11
Rigging does get annoying but I still think there is nothing more fun than setting 'unused 60' to 255 for player one in TMA and going on a storming spree.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Wilhelm on 2005-02-03 at 15:21:39
Luckily nothing I'm making will really be worth rigging (since I'm going to make maybe... one non-RPG map), since all they'll have is FFX's battle system in terms of... fighting stuffs. Then again, they'll be like reading books. Eh. For any riggers out there, I hope you like sifting through three hours worth of story triggers just to rig the battle system (which'll be really... not all that important to the RPG). tongue.gif
Report, edit, etc...Posted by guardien on 2005-02-03 at 15:32:03
censored.gif riggers.....but, i had one of my funnest games in a rigged game, i beat the guy that rigged it. Me and a friend ere playing a rigged ver. of bunker wars, then, it became me and my friend vs. the rigger. I held him off if he attaked my friend, and pal used a couple yomato gun shots to bring his bunker to red, then the bc died, but we outlasted him, we won!
Report, edit, etc...Posted by ub3rn3wb on 2005-02-03 at 15:32:46
most people rig games like madnesses and OMFG games just so they can win to raise their already low self esteem because they're fukcing newbs
Report, edit, etc...Posted by chuiu on 2005-02-03 at 15:41:38
Or so they can gloat the entire game and then win after every player is sick of listening to them.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Robi on 2005-02-03 at 16:08:03
1 year ago :
- i was playing about 1/3 of all maps that was played by users
Now :
- i only play 1/10 of maps that users play

the facts :
- rigged maps
- bad players (more and more hackers, oh, god)
- good original and fair maps are pratically never played :[
- I always need to host game, and very often people don't come

so ? :
- I changed
or
- People of battle.net become noober and play rigged maps

conclusion :
- that this fact that pushed me to map making : i found other map uncomplete or rigged, so i wanted to do mine, better ....
- solutions ? :
* stop playing maps, people inside are noobs, if u don't find good games hosted, wait a bit and refresh, if not, host a game, if nobody comes, it's a bad day, go mapping or do something else, and try again in the journey sick.gif
(that what i do now)
* Make new maps "un-riggedable" and u'll need them to be played a lot to replace rigged maps, but warning : very often map makers make strategical, complexe maps, it's good yeah, but bnet majority people is noob and they like noobs maps like Special Forces, Photon Defense, Don't Move..... you'll say, some of those maps are not rigged, but they are just to noobish, well you can't do anything for that except change mentality of bnet players what would be really hard sick.gif
Report, edit, etc...Posted by yeow on 2005-02-03 at 16:18:20
I wonder if any of those people have heard of something called....A MAP PROTECTOR!!

It's so funny when you beat people that have rigged the game..
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Tarh on 2005-02-03 at 16:26:58
QUOTE
I wonder if any of those people have heard of something called....A MAP PROTECTOR!!


Refer to my previous post. That will only stop about 1/2 of riggers. pinch.gif
Report, edit, etc...Posted by BeeR_KeG on 2005-02-03 at 16:57:06
Thats why I prefer to play public Wc3 more than public Sc.
Noobs don't know how to use such an advanced editor as Wc3. Heck, even I don't know how to make lots of triggers. I only know the basics.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Yoshi da Sniper on 2005-02-03 at 17:04:43
Don't worry. Rigged maps are banned from map night tongue.gif

BTW this isn't an unprotector rant or anything (I never really ranted about unprotectors in the first place). Its just the style of boring games going on battle.net these days...
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Mr.Asdf on 2005-02-03 at 18:43:26
QUOTE(Mp)3 @ Feb 3 2005, 12:10 AM)
Giving an editor to a rigger is like giving a flamethrower to a baby: They both become weapons of mass destruction.
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ehh ok....
Report, edit, etc...Posted by MillenniumArmy on 2005-02-03 at 18:58:28
People rig maps so they can have fun and actually be "happy" and laugh sometimes. Even when someone is rigged against you, you'll be "taken aback" and might say some weird comments about it with an ambivalence of feelings.

Battle.net is to have fun, to play games. We, SENers, take games seriously and want them to be fair. Mostly it's because we're map makers; we make maps so that people can enjoy them because they're good. That's our soul purpose. We have our mindset into thinking that all maps should be fair and equal. If you never were a map maker, some of you would sometimes think some rigged maps are funny and entertaining. Besides, UMS games really dont do anything with your record or ranking so why not play some games that are totally bs to an extent? happy.gif
Report, edit, etc...Posted by cop29 on 2005-02-03 at 20:10:46
yesterday i played a game of Amazing Turret Defense 1.1 made by JackTheRimmer, apparently sum1 has tampered with it and now instead of starting with 3 minerals and working hard for each and every one. u now start with 10,000...
making the game completly ruined.
map riggers are jelous noob map makers who use other ppls maps to make themselves look good. (in their own mind of coarse)
Report, edit, etc...Posted by ub3rn3wb on 2005-02-03 at 20:48:34
A lot of the maps out nowadays are made by n3wb137 mappers who dont even know about GuEdit or like Starforge to protect their maps...
But it is funny when you PWnz0rz some little censored.gif who rigged it smile.gif
Report, edit, etc...Posted by cop29 on 2005-02-03 at 20:56:04
always ALWAYS good to kill a map rigger in their own map, lol
Report, edit, etc...Posted by MillenniumArmy on 2005-02-03 at 21:16:20
QUOTE(cop29 @ Feb 3 2005, 07:10 PM)
yesterday i played a game of Amazing Turret Defense 1.1  made by JackTheRimmer, apparently sum1 has tampered with it and now instead of starting with 3 minerals and working hard for each and every one. u now start with 10,000...
making the game completly ruined.
map riggers are jelous noob map makers who use other ppls maps to make themselves look good. (in their own mind of coarse)
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Hey well map riggers are better than map stealers.

Map stealers are Starcraft Criminals and should be hanged.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by evolipel on 2005-02-03 at 21:26:02
QUOTE(MillenniumArmy @ Feb 3 2005, 06:58 PM)
People rig maps so they can have fun and actually be "happy" and laugh sometimes. Even when someone is rigged against you, you'll be "taken aback" and might say some weird comments about it with an ambivalence of feelings.

Battle.net is to have fun, to play games. We, SENers, take games seriously and want them to be fair. Mostly it's because we're map makers; we make maps so that people can enjoy them because they're good. That's our soul purpose. We have our mindset into thinking that all maps should be fair and equal. If you never were a map maker, some of you would sometimes think some rigged maps are funny and entertaining. Besides, UMS games really dont do anything with your record or ranking so why not play some games that are totally bs to an extent? happy.gif
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That's exactly was what I was thinking.

If a defense map has unlimited minerals, you might as well play it once to see what happens in the end, all in good fun. If you're the map maker who got his said defense map rigged, that's another story...

I've never played rigged RPG maps. Yet again, I don't like RPG maps anyway.

When I played OMFG THE ZERGLINGS, I thought it was supposed to have unlimited money and fast building. However, I got a little suspicious when the upgrades weren't quick. Now I realize that it was a rigged version, and see why it should be a challenge to people.

Rigged maps can be fun to play once or twice, but it gets annoying when a map was fully ruined by a rig and/or you've never played the original.
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