Jack Basford medal 6098 CEO & CTO 11 years 150 days ago
A potential reputation XP exploit was brought to my attention today which has now been fixed. In the process of fixing this exploit I discovered the likely causes and solutions to two elusive problems that have been around for a while, they were:
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[*]Excessive contract expiration occurring in a single race (sometimes 3-4 races taken off of a contract)
[*]Excessive reputation XP being awarded in a single race (usually 2-3x the expected amount)
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It turns out that there was nothing inherently wrong with the code, but it required a series of unexpected events to occur to trigger the behavior of the code in the wrong way. This is why until now it was not possible to see anything wrong with the code itself, but by playing around with certain triggers of the code in testing an exploit I stumbled on the triggers causing these other issues.
Since several threads have been created on these issues over the last few months, rather than responding to them all an announcement seems more apt. I would ask everyone to remain vigilant in tracking whether or not these issues reoccur, but I believe the root cause should be addressed now.
Ignatius Corleone medal 5000 11 years 150 days ago
Thanks for the hard work.
Clark Lawson medal 5000 11 years 150 days ago
Thanks, keep up the good work.
Dan J medal 5000 11 years 150 days ago
Thanks. not sure all the XP has gone through though? Still where I was pre-race.
Jack Basford medal 6098 CEO & CTO 11 years 150 days ago
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Thanks. not sure all the XP has gone through though? Still where I was pre-race.
Reputation, or scouting and development XP?
Dan J medal 5000 11 years 150 days ago
Scouting & Dev. Pretty sure I was 15 and 20pts under level 4 before the last race. I'm in
http://igpmanager.com/play/?url=league-info/288#tab1, Thanks!
Tim Blain medal 5000 11 years 150 days ago
Same here, ive mentioned this 3 times on other threads and nowt has been done...
I didnt get the scouting and dev xp from last race, and as a result have yet another race until I level up to level 6 and Kers.
Jack Basford medal 6098 CEO & CTO 11 years 150 days ago
It was a misunderstanding, I realised we must be talking about two different things above, because the reputation XP was all resolved. I've added the scouting and development XP now too.
Jeremy Losh medal 5000 11 years 149 days ago
Interesting....hasn't happened to me with either elements yet since I've been in iGP.
Thanks for doing that Jack. Keep up the hard work.