moozooh wrote:It raises more questions than it answers. You 2-ALL'ed DDP, twice already from what I can tell. Your score is the highest announced in western shmup communities. Do you still have a right to be in the same league with other people on this board? Should only Japanese people be excluded from it? What are the criteria and breaking points for different leagues? Differentiation does make a lot of sense, I'll give you that, but only when it actually takes place. And I'm not sure it does, or at least does it in a sensible way.
No league differenciation is fine as well. The Starcraft ladders I'm refering to can be totaly open, some of them are invaded by koreans including professional players and very good players. They just raise the level and rank A+ and push other people down a little and you get B- when you'd be B+ on another ladder with less koreans, but that's fine, it's a ladder and it places you among a population, that you approximately know who it is formed by.
For some, it is. Taking back SWY as an example, let me show you the other side of the coin: once a player makes a contract and releases a superplay DVD that becomes famous, they get credit for it. When someone beats that score but doesn't release a superplay DVD because one has already been released, they go unnoticed. Happened with SWY and his hard mode Ikaruga superplay featured on Ikaruga Appreciate DVD, which had since then been beaten. I don't even know who did it. :\
I can appreciate how the same goals can be achieved without being given credit, but it still doesn't make it insignificant or worth nothing. It doesn't make it fair that cheaters can steal credit away from other people.
And in any case, if we're going to constitute a high score board, it's naturally necessary just to keep it accurate and meaningful to make sure fake scores are banned. If that was such a pain in the ass and we were doing the cheater hunt too aggressively, it would be a bad thing, but asking for an inp or a picture of the PCB/port is nearly nothing and does good for everyone in the case of inps or videos.
