Question about Metaverse, Multiple scores-same game

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What prevents someone from submitting the same game multiple times for repeated submitted high scores. I note several people have Gigantic games submitted in the same day with huge scores and killer AI. It is impossible to play two Gigantic games in one day imo without resubmitting. What prevents a player from just going back to a previous save(not the autosave) and continuing a game they already submitted for a score and then resubmitting for another score when that game finishes again? Kinda curious if there is a check for this on submission of scores. Last night I concluded a game, and then reloaded a prev save to see if I could get a better score through a different victory condition, or just getting higher tech/pop and kinda wondered if this is how multiple gigantic games are being submitted on the same day. Even if a player starts at a save way back early or even at the very beginning in the game, they have all the knowledge of where all the planets, races, and resources are in the game and would be technically submitting the same game if they played through to victory again. Can the Metaverse tell the same game/game-map upon submission to prevent resubmission of a previously played game submission? Btw, if you cannot answer nice, then do not answer. No flaming folks, just curious on how this kind of abuse is prevented in the Metaverse scoring. I mean, can you just play the same map from the start(or some prev save) again and again getting better and better(higher score) then submitt it again and again? Thanks. :)

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
"What prevents someone from submitting the same game multiple times for repeated submitted high scores."

The fact that each game has a unique ID; if you try to submit the same game twice, your old game is overwritten.

"I note several people have Gigantic games submitted in the same day"

Not really. Submit one at 12:01 a.m. (having essentially played the entire game the previous day), and you have 23 hours and 59 minutes to finish another one, which is quite doable. You may not have much of a life while you do it (and face it, some of us don't), but it can be done.

- Ash

~SDC~
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Metaverse only takes your higher score. So a single game will only have one Metaverse entry no matter how many times its submitted.

As to your other point, well, I guess if someone feels like spending that sort of time on a gigantic map to play it twice, then they're going to get the higher score. Me, I'd rather just play a new game. Plus, Brad already pointed out that time to victory affects score.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Makes sense. Thanks. :D
So if you submit the same game again, but it has a higher score, it will overwrite your prev score on the Metaverse? So if I had a 1500, submitted, and replayed the end of that game a different way and the score was 1700,submitted; the 1700 would overwrite the 1500?
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
"the 1700 would overwrite the 1500?"

I thought it used your most recent, not your highest, score for a game, but I can't back that up, so travathian is probably right, which would mean yes, the 1700 would overwrite the 1500.

Keep in mind that that isn't as easy to do as it sounds, since every turn you play has a detrimental effect on your score (> game duration = < score).

- Ash

~SDC~
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Right now games can only be submitted once. After that, all incoming scores from the same game are ignored. This has been brought up several times, but I personally prefer this meathod (makes you think twice before blindly clicking that submit button). Any thoughts on a different approach are welcome :)
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
Well, now both travathian and myself look foolish. Thanks Gov'nor! :)

- Ash

~SDC~