Grant Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 Watch out for custom maps claiming to be "official". Even if they look the same and are not the ones from the "Battle" game mode shipped with the client, they are modified. We've seen some maps that are identical to the original, but with some spots having ridiculous advantages. We're going to be looking at a whitelist system of maps soon (probably in the new year now) which if a map is not in the list, will announce it's "unknown" and "modified" and could contain unfair advantages. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rishain Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 ahh what about maps that are custom maps that are fair maps. for example, i make the rawr maps fair maps to all sides that are not trying to be offical maps. will those maps then be known as unknown or modified. im also a good player that gets called a cheater because i play the game better then a lot of the peop[e that i run into, will it then be the argument of well you playhing on a unknown map so you much be cheating?' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZiGZaG Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 On 14/12/2017 at 9:17 PM, rishain said: ahh what about maps that are custom maps that are fair maps. for example, i make the rawr maps fair maps to all sides that are not trying to be offical maps. will those maps then be known as unknown or modified. im also a good player that gets called a cheater because i play the game better then a lot of the peop[e that i run into, will it then be the argument of well you playhing on a unknown map so you much be cheating?' Maps like yours are fine, hes talking about maps like that version of hammer and sickle that spot 1 has 10 mcvs outside the map and unlimited cash etc. Also dont worry about being called a cheater if your better than opponents its happened for years.I used to argue about it years ago but nowadays I try to explain basic bo's etc to help these folk. P.S Ive only played one or two but i liked your map's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kikematamitos Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrono Vortex Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 How is this whitelisting system going be handled? Will maps be reviewed by request, or is it just going to happen as they pop up? Or something entirely different? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ra2Nub Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 For starters just make a filter that not ANY map can have an identical name as the official maps. With just that filter you already shape off 99% of the cheated maps, where people are now forced to put an extra character or space in the identical map name, which is very easy to spot. Its already very easy spot in general because the map preview will be very ugly, and you never have to download an official map, but if they can't have an identical name anymore as the official maps it helps a lot too, since that's how they put people off-guard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ore_truck Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 On 12/15/2017 at 6:17 AM, rishain said: ahh what about maps that are custom maps that are fair maps. for example, i make the rawr maps fair maps to all sides that are not trying to be offical maps. will those maps then be known as unknown or modified. im also a good player that gets called a cheater because i play the game better then a lot of the peop[e that i run into, will it then be the argument of well you playhing on a unknown map so you much be cheating?' We can't whitelist custom maps because people can customized it with cheats. Only official maps because everybody knows official maps are not made by sneaky cheaters silently putting tremendous advantages at their starting spot. Yes, there are custom maps that are fair but we wouldn't know there are thousands of them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kikematamitos Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 Extra Small, oil in center, Naval Extra Small and some section for the functional survival and tower walking (no crash) maps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpaca Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 (edited) FCK someone made sneaky edit of my ww5. ITs ALLIED ANTI AIR power upgraded... There was another "ww5 upgraded" like these before... Maybe cnc developers may give MD5 based verification for preventing these sneaky modded maps on next update? it would be great. hmm maybe it was a TRAINER not modded map... Edited June 10, 2018 by Alpaca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpaca Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 (edited) A) Ok its a real thing now. Could you guys make "verified" custom maps based on md5 hash? I can provide legit versions of my maps. (They are in GDrive already) B) Is there any way to quick spot what is modified on map? (with using fa2 or else) -----found a website for it. Edited November 17, 2018 by Alpaca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpaca Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 OK I spotted the fake map. And it has HUGE modded differencies. (chrono spys, chrono engineers etc...) Staff pls do something about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingMustache Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 16 hours ago, Alpaca said: OK I spotted the fake map. And it has HUGE modded differencies. (chrono spys, chrono engineers etc...) Staff pls do something about it. Just don't play on custom maps from hosts you don't trust. What the hell are the admins going to do? Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpaca Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 (edited) 10 hours ago, FlyingMustache said: Just don't play on custom maps from hosts you don't trust. What the hell are the admins going to do? Lol the answer is might in the three message above. Edited November 18, 2018 by Alpaca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chandler Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 How would a whitelist for maps work? There's a lot of maps out there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant Posted November 18, 2018 Author Share Posted November 18, 2018 Yep you are right. There are a lot of maps. I think more of a client side map cheat detection is going to have be thought about more than a whitelist. How possible and feasible that is yet is still unknown, yet to be R&D'd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpaca Posted November 19, 2018 Share Posted November 19, 2018 hmm maybe this kind of addition works: client scans for map content and finds and shows all additions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boggle04 Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 You guys all know that cheating has been a part of RA2/YR since it's development or at least the development of the Map Editors. The only way anyone is ever going to figure out if a map cheats is to have someone open up maps physically look them over and make a list of the maps with the cheats or benefits of them. Everyone loves to play Eagle7002's Crate Wars, but do you realize someone, edited the map never changed the name and with the edits the Triggers for crates have been modified to give Iraq extra crates. A lot of new players don't recognize that more Construction Yards mean buildings build faster More factories means infantry and units build faster When build speed is modified, the units can cost a lot more money if you do not have enough factories to keep up. (When you click 30 tanks with 1 or 2 Factories the tanks will probably build like 10 to 13 tanks but they will take all the money it cost for the 30. This ends up costing all you resources so you can't compete with the better players.) There are several maps that have built in cheats such as 1 -4 player map has Cloaking devices on 2 bases and unlimited money too. There are maps that have certain buildings that are the Prerequisite Override to allow a player to build any unit or structure. I myself have modified maps that are fair but have secrets buried in them, I don't consider it cheating as all players gain the benefit, but do all take advantage of it. I have 5 types of modified tents on the Winter Canyons map, but if 1 player can access, all players can access so 4 players there are 4 of each tent. Special Interest: Special Unit Bus for Transportation White Trucks Loaded with Crates if Turned On Special tents: Click Repairable, Produce Cash of 2000, have Hidden Secret Technology Such as Tech Machine Shop, Tech Civilian Hospital, Radar, Spy Satelite, Paradrop, these tents all have names on them so by mousing over you will notice the difference. I have also built maps that have the benefit of Reinforcement teams coming from off the map but those triggers are set through out the map and come into play by traveling the map and landing on tagged squares or entering tagged buildings, (these tags usually work on the idea, America Enters then America gets a team from off the map, so on and so forth for all 10 teams in the game.) Another map Baby v1.01 (Read Notes of Interest below) the only way to know this is to know the map. Players 2-7 Map Size 95x160 Money on map 3,052,475GameMode Standard, Meatgrind, Duel, Cooperative, Teamgame Buildings on Map Tech Airports Tech Machine Shops Tech Outpost Tech Civilian Hospitals Allied Construction Yards Soviet Construction Yards Yuri Construction Yards Soviet Nuclear Reactors Notes of Interest This is different, More money, Tech, and Power, but if you are going to harvest Ore and Gems you will probably lose to the guy that sales his Nuclear Reactor or Barracks. The REFUND on buildings is 100,000 Percent (on a $2,000 war factory times %100,000=$4,000,000,000) Being a fast build map you need that kind of money because stuff can cost a lot of money when the factories can't keep up with the build speed. Of course I haven't mentioned that the buildings are not quite balanced from 1 base to the next have I? [General] UIName=Name:General BuildSpeed=0.078 RefundPercent=100000% Just a matter of keep it fair for 1 and all is the key to good maps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhtkick Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 fuck cheat maps auther in offical map XD fuck cheat maps auther in offical map XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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