I've been having a number of problems with online games the last few days. I just posted the following in a Tech Support thread at the Making Fun site where I described the issues. Note my last concern #5 as it relates directly to the Isotropish Leaderboard. It just seems out of line that 3 new user id's would pop up at the top of the list of number of games in the last few days, and that all 3 of them would have over 50,000 games, and that Banker Bot would have shot up so much in games. If the numbers are correct, then either a) Goko/Makingfun is using these ID's to test the system; b) Someone is gaming the Goko/Makingfun system with automated bot programs and that could be why the servers have been slow; or c) Someone is gaming the Isotropish leaderboard. If there is another possible answer, I can't think of it at the moment... I don't usually expand the full Iso list, but I have in the past, and these names did not roll to the top of # of games list, so I do not think it is just because they have not played for a while. 2 of the new id's show in the partial list, but elhobb only shows in the full list. It is also odd that the numbers for the Goko Bots have changed with Banker Bot shooting up so significantly, and if my memory is correct, Conqueror Bot dropping down in # of games, as Conqueror Bot always had notably the most games.
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http://forum.makingfun.com/showthread.php?4653-Lots-of-problems-with-games-last-couple-days)
Lots of problems with games last couple days
The last couple days I have had lot of problems with games:
1) Very slow response time, with frequent long lags.
2) Games not starting sometimes after hitting the play button. They just never start and I have to hit the Create button to start a new game.
3) One time where the game started but the whole screen was displayed with dark gray overlay so that I had to hit refresh to go back to home screen.
4) One game where it hung up during the game and never came back. I checked the game log, and it was logged as a Quit against a Bot, but it was not counted as a loss on my loss record. While it doesn't seem quite fair to get a loss when the system hangs up, I think it is important for any game logged as a quit to count as a loss. Otherwise the door is still open for people to game the system and simply quit anytime they are behind to preserve their record without a loss. Especially if this can be done against bots without a quit counting as a loss it will cause the potential for players to be fixing even the pro ratings by just playing bots and quitting any time they are behind to achieve a perfect record.
5) Finally, I noticed in the Isotropish rankings taken from Goko games (
http://gokologs.drunkensailor.org/le...rtkey=numgames) that if you sort them by number of games played there has been some radical changes at the top. I could usually sort by # of games to quickly see all the Bots at the top and see what their respective ISO ratings were. Now I see that Banker Bot has gone up by at least 20,000 or 30,000 games in the last week or so. I also see 3 new user names which have never been at the top (frankdom, LuciferousPeridot, and elhobb) - all 3 of these users suddenly show as having over 50,000 games. Now I understand this is a 3rd party site not maintained by Goko/Makingfun, but if the numbers are true, it might indicate that the servers are slow because they are being swamped by some sort of automated programmed bots (who perhaps have been playing Banker Bot?). Perhaps these are Makingfun tests?? Something you probably want to look at.