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What's up with the All Time Leaderboards? Page 1
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If I look at the leaderboards for Angry Birds, it looks like zdoc and christian '! are tied for first with over 9 quintillion points. That's 9,000,000,000,000,000,000. Then the points decrease until 9th place, daffydoug, has a somewhat reasonable 69 million.
My questions is: what's the deal with the top scorers? That can't be right, right? Is it some kind of bug that someone exploited on purpose... or just a bug that happened by accident?
Just curious.
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13 Comments
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Rovio has addressed this a few times via Twitter. According to them, there's nothing they can do. It's not an exploit through Angry Birds, but through Game Center. Rovio has said that Apple has to fix the leaderboards.
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Hey, thanks. Curiosity satisfied.
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These people who hack the leaderboards must lead some pretty sad lives, concussed99 (28,257,960) and OMG just noticed the new leader zDoc 9,223,372,036,854,775,807. WHY??? SERIOUSLY GET A LIFE
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You'd think Game Center would allow the game developer to enter in a maximum possible high score, to prevent people from doing this. That wouldn't necessarily stop the cheating altogether, but it would definitely prevent these outrageous scores from being posted.
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I know seriously. I built min and max score checks into our leaderboard to prevent this exact problem. It just seems so obvious.
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not sure if its write place for it but u no on ur pics of level lesction e.g. ham em high ther is a lederbord kind of thing yet on mine its not ther do u no y this is???
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Sorry @aleon92, I can't really understand what you're trying to say. Could be bad translation.
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I posted this under the leaderboards discussion, but I thought I would post it here, too:
If I take my current total score (20,951,840) and add to that the total amount I am off of other high scores posted here [on the ABN Leaderboards] (-1,740,620), that would give me a possible high score of 22,692,460 (assuming, of course, that I could tie every single high score posted here). This gives me a good indication of where hacked high scores begin on Game Center — I think any score above 23,000,000 is probably suspect. Does this sound right to others, or am I missing something? -
@ChaosTsar
I've wondered what the true overall score would be as well. It's kinda funny, because we have almost the same overall score (mine is 20,959,750). The leaderboard here has been a big help to know what legit scores are really like, and maybe get a better idea of where the points are that i'm missing.
It's pretty obivous to spot the cheaters that have billions or trillions of points. But, what's harder is to figure out if some of the players that have scores only a few million higher are legit. I've seen some that have scores of 29 million, and that seems very unlikely. I've seen others that have scores above 24 million, and I'm kinda skeptical.
However, the leaderboard is still in its infancy. I've followed the golden score challenge or whatever over on angrybirds score website, and there's plenty of scores that get posted on those challenges that would beat the high scores here. It's hard to think that many have played so many levels to almost perfection, but I do think that maybe some of those scores that are around 24 million might be legit.
I've only had this game for 4 months now, and if others have played it as obessesivly as I have for almost a year longer than me, then I can see some of those scores being accurate. -
You can just go to crystal instead of game center if you are on the original game
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@crazyhacker -- I'm not a big fan of the way crystal is set up, and their percentages are definitely screwy. For local, i'm in what I presume is the top 4 percentile (4% is listed), yet I'm ranked as # 4. Unless my math skills are shot, that would mean that only 100 people in the state of Ohio have their scores logged in with Crystal (if 200 were logged in, I would be in the top 2%; if 400 were logged in, I would be in the top 1%, etc...). Seems rather unlikely that only 100 people in Ohio have logged in, so the percentage in relation to numerical ranking makes no sense to me.
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Is there a way to contact apple and request that they use their billions of dollars to make a measly update to gamecenter so the true top players can have their names actually up there?
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I saw a video on YouTube the other day with a jailbroken hack that destroys all the pigs before the level starts, probably the source of alot of the scores
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