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Sun, Dec 25 2011 4:31 PM (30 replies)
  • mnshiner
    1,382 Posts
    Sat, Dec 24 2011 12:53 PM

    esssy one day you say your done here posting and then start deleting your posts and the next you are back to the same old B/S. Make up your fringin' mind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • YankeeJim
    25,827 Posts
    Sat, Dec 24 2011 12:58 PM

    DylynJ:

    Granted this one's on me. I retract my previous statements. I was drunk and being an idiot. lol. blah blah blah I really need to just not come on these forums when I'm bellicose n blotto.

    :( apologies

    Some things never change. Bender-apology-contrition-bender-apology-contrition.

    Too sad, I thought you fixed that.  Guess not, Mensa.

  • MBaggese
    15,367 Posts
    Sat, Dec 24 2011 3:55 PM

    DylynJ:
    Now back to our regularly scheduled programming or are we holding life long grudges? haha

    Nah, deleted mine and accepted your apology.

  • MBaggese
    15,367 Posts
    Sat, Dec 24 2011 6:07 PM

    To the OP,

    One thing to think about, very well could be two roomies using a router on seperate laptops say, and lost connection.

     

  • YankeeJim
    25,827 Posts
    Sun, Dec 25 2011 11:24 AM

    DylynJ:

    I love a good roast... and I feel I have some coming my way. So bring it. I'll sit here like a man.. won't reply... I'll just sit here and take it. Hit me with your best shots and put some stank on them!!

     

    Nah, I'm good too. Rooting for ya.  ;-)

  • chrisironsbones
    3,524 Posts
    Sun, Dec 25 2011 11:40 AM

    The skins problem seemed to coincide with the pick up ball option.  Dare touch pick up ball it acts like a time machine. once pressed you get taken back to the hole you pressed it on i.e you press pick up ball on hole #3 (game is ok untill then) after you press p.u.b, every hole you will then get freezes, then 3 holes down the line you zoom back to the tee you pressed pick up ball on,#3

  • thebigeasy707
    5,885 Posts
    Sun, Dec 25 2011 11:48 AM

    slillico:

    Here's one, playing earlier and 2nd hole of pretty highish stakes against 2 legends and a TM, the Legends both disconnect and timeout at same time.

    happens quite a lot actually.

    happened to me in a game yesterday.....both legends dc'd at exactly the same time.

    however, i happen to know one of them lives in miami...the other in canada, so nothing sinister about it.

    tbe

  • Kaloke
    232 Posts
    Sun, Dec 25 2011 2:09 PM

    slillico:

    mnshiner:

    Better take your 2 cents back. That could happen but very unlikely. WGT tracks cookies and ISP addresses so in all reality it is very unlikely.

    That is why I believe the surveys are hard to get qualified for. You have to remember exactly what you checked from one survey to another.

    Thx for the earlier Hijack of my misplaced thread and thx mnshiner for getting this back on track. I'll be only to glad to take my 2 cents back, but first I have some concerns.

    Now I'm not a computer expert, but i have been around the block a couple of times, but I believe Cookies are individual computer and browser based, therefore the need for 2 computers, for that matter you only need to use multiple browsers and 1 computer to get around cookies. WGT cannot tell  anything based on IP address. There are completely legitimate reasons for the same IP address to access WGT with multiple accounts therefore I find it unlikely that WGT would even care to ban based on that.

    Now if the IP address being recorded is the address after the router serves one, and If that's the case why bother because multiple computers is all that is required to get around that, for that matter wired and wireless on 1 computer is all that is required to get around that, and there are also easy software based solutions to that also.

    Now if cookies and IP address are the only security measures, forgive me if I'm not all warm and fuzzy about the security. Kinda like the Bank vault in the middle of the street wide open with the Police on Strike.

    Not a big deal anyway, obviously if i have a concern I can just avoid the skins for credits, but I would like to hear what exactly is the security measure being taken to avoid collusion or the same person, with two accounts playing in the same skins match.

    I know there is allot of chatter about cheating and clickers and calculators, but 1 player playing 2 people in the skins out of 4 is a HUGE virtually unbeatable advantage by a reasonably skilled player.

    Just my 2 cents.

    Actually you can not use the same computer with different browsers. I found this out when I played a replay from someone else. I reopened another browser and tried to log on and got a message, this game does not support multiple browsers. Now I am not that good with computer stuff so there is probably a way that it can be done, but I would have no idea how.

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