To be honest I'm nowhere near any high-score position myself, but seeing that other people could achieve high levels always motivated me back in the day. It was also a good way to check my own levels when I couldn't log in for various reasons. I know there are a lot of things to work on but I would love to see highscores and/or a way to check my own or other players' levels outside of game. Questions/comments welcome!
We used to have high scores for about a year, Ryan one of the server's owners and operators took them down in January to re-do them. They have not been back up since.
If anybody can fix it, Omar can
I really want to see back the highscores :/
Quote from: nijntje on June 25, 2014, 06:40:11 PM
I really want to see back the highscores :/
Everyone does but according to a dev, "highscores aren't even at the top of the list of priorities."
Quote from: Prayer on June 25, 2014, 07:01:56 PM
Quote from: nijntje on June 25, 2014, 06:40:11 PM
I really want to see back the highscores :/
Everyone does but according to a dev, "highscores aren't even at the top of the list of priorities."
Now that I'm working full time I kinda understand what's going on. RR is at the bottom of my list now.
Quote from: Prayer on June 25, 2014, 07:01:56 PM
Quote from: nijntje on June 25, 2014, 06:40:11 PM
I really want to see back the highscores :/
Everyone does but according to a dev, "highscores aren't even at the top of the list of priorities."
With limited content it would add the competition aspect much needed to keep things interesting.
We should also try to get people to do Fight pits and Castle wars.
Quote from: Charles on June 25, 2014, 07:35:25 PM
Quote from: Prayer on June 25, 2014, 07:01:56 PM
Quote from: nijntje on June 25, 2014, 06:40:11 PM
I really want to see back the highscores :/
Everyone does but according to a dev, "highscores aren't even at the top of the list of priorities."
With limited content it would add the competition aspect much needed to keep things interesting.
We should also try to get people to do Fight pits and Castle wars.
Yah, just give us Highscores and we'll be fine without content for another year.
well, not a year but for months
I figured I've give this a bump since Ryan is back, any idea on when highscores will return?
Quote from: edub on September 01, 2014, 06:07:07 PM
I figured I've give this a bump since Ryan is back, any idea on when highscores will return?
Quote from: buttplug on August 23, 2014, 01:08:29 PM
http://picosong.com/eWtn/
Was getting caught part of your plan?
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Quote from: Onur on September 01, 2014, 06:21:34 PM
Quote from: edub on September 01, 2014, 06:07:07 PM
I figured I've give this a bump since Ryan is back, any idea on when highscores will return?
Quote from: buttplug on August 23, 2014, 01:08:29 PM
http://picosong.com/eWtn/
Was getting caught part of your plan?
(http://img.4plebs.org/boards/tv/image/1369/64/1369641816215.jpg)
Lol "Of Course!", plus the fact that a highscores icon was added on the home page of the forums.
Quote from: edub on June 19, 2014, 07:41:33 PM
We used to have high scores for about a year, Ryan one of the server's owners and operators took them down in January to re-do them. They have not been back up since.
I'm sorry, but looking at what Edub just said makes me laugh, I mean what type of influence is that on a new player "took them down in January to re-do them, They have not been back up since". I'm not digging at Edub's post, it's just sheer fact that it takes this long JUST to re-do highscores, why not just put the old ones back up I had no problem with them.
I was just being real in that post, I'd rather not get people's hopes up in saying that they would be back up soon or anything to that nature.
Quote from: ZzReVeNg3zZ on September 01, 2014, 11:30:49 PM
Quote from: edub on June 19, 2014, 07:41:33 PM
We used to have high scores for about a year, Ryan one of the server's owners and operators took them down in January to re-do them. They have not been back up since.
I'm sorry, but looking at what Edub just said makes me laugh, I mean what type of influence is that on a new player "took them down in January to re-do them, They have not been back up since". I'm not digging at Edub's post, it's just sheer fact that it takes this long JUST to re-do highscores, why not just put the old ones back up I had no problem with them.
Well if you're genuinely interested, I'll tell you why.
Someone used the highscores page to "hack" us, using a vulnerability it had. They planted a file or something on to our VPS using the highscore page because it isn't coded to prevent attacks like that SQL Injection they did. Although they probably did get our database or not, they cannot do anything worthwhile with it because the passwords are Salted, so it's extremely hard for them to hack a single player.
Kevin's urgent post of the matter: http://www.runerebels.com/smf/index.php?topic=1367.msg7222
Now, why hasn't this been fixed or something?
Well, Ryan has been extremely busy with other stuff. Also fixing it, I'm sure, would be hard and time consuming since he has to recode the whole highscores page, make it function properly, and make it be extremely secure.
Quote from: Prayer on September 02, 2014, 12:14:19 AM
Quote from: ZzReVeNg3zZ on September 01, 2014, 11:30:49 PM
Quote from: edub on June 19, 2014, 07:41:33 PM
We used to have high scores for about a year, Ryan one of the server's owners and operators took them down in January to re-do them. They have not been back up since.
I'm sorry, but looking at what Edub just said makes me laugh, I mean what type of influence is that on a new player "took them down in January to re-do them, They have not been back up since". I'm not digging at Edub's post, it's just sheer fact that it takes this long JUST to re-do highscores, why not just put the old ones back up I had no problem with them.
Well if you're genuinely interested, I'll tell you why.
Someone used the highscores page to "hack" us, using a vulnerability it had. They planted a file or something on to our VPS using the highscore page because it isn't coded to prevent attacks like that SQL Injection they did. Although they probably did get our database or not, they cannot do anything worthwhile with it because the passwords are Salted, so it's extremely hard for them to hack a single player.
Kevin's urgent post of the matter: http://www.runerebels.com/smf/index.php?topic=1367.msg7222
Now, why hasn't this been fixed or something?
Well, Ryan has been extremely busy with other stuff. Also fixing it, I'm sure, would be hard and time consuming since he has to recode the whole highscores page, make it function properly, and make it be extremely secure.
Nah I understand, it takes 7 months for everyone to code a Highscores page, but even one minute a day, for seven months is 3.5 hours. Ryan could designate his toilet time to coding it xD
But yeah, I know, clearly there is good reason for this.
Currently working on re-adding the HighScores.
They were removed due to a lot of bugs with them. But, we're working on getting some bug spray so we can get them back on. Anyone know a good number for an exterminator?
Quote from: Kevin on September 02, 2014, 12:41:49 AM
Currently working on re-adding the HighScores.
They were removed due to a lot of bugs with them. But, we're working on getting some bug spray so we can get them back on. Anyone know a good number for an exterminator?
Those bugs have to be eliminated one rodent at a time!
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Prayer is correct about the reason the highscores were removed; I wrote them waaay back when I was in like, middle school. :P
I am currently rewriting them using the PHP PDO library, and it is about halfway done. ;D
Quote from: Ry60003333 on September 03, 2014, 07:33:50 PM
Prayer is correct about the reason the highscores were removed; I wrote them waaay back when I was in like, middle school. :P
I am currently rewriting them using the PHP PDO library, and it is about halfway done. ;D
That's good to hear that progress is being made on them =P
Quote from: Ry60003333 on September 03, 2014, 07:33:50 PM
Prayer is correct about the reason the highscores were removed; I wrote them waaay back when I was in like, middle school. :P
I am currently rewriting them using the PHP PDO library, and it is about halfway done. ;D
Aren't you still in middleschool
Quote from: Onur on September 03, 2014, 08:13:52 PM
Quote from: Ry60003333 on September 03, 2014, 07:33:50 PM
Prayer is correct about the reason the highscores were removed; I wrote them waaay back when I was in like, middle school. :P
I am currently rewriting them using the PHP PDO library, and it is about halfway done. ;D
Aren't you still in middleschool
Onur taking shots at Ryan. I like it.
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Working on redesigning the highscores, and making it responsive so it doesn't look like shit on your mobile phone :c
also let's give ryan a big shoutout cuz it's 5 am for him :'(
Quote from: Onur on September 22, 2014, 06:00:01 AM
(http://new.tinygrab.com/7b25c8cfff8b109415f4b08e7df1469f488782b170.png)
Working on redesigning the highscores, and making it responsive so it doesn't look like shit on your mobile phone :c
also let's give ryan a big shoutout cuz it's 5 am for him :'(
Nice, I love how Charles is up there with all the admin accounts