Inir Ishtori
Perkone
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Posted - 2011.01.28 01:03:00 -
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 Originally by: Adivah
There is a session-based check to ensure that the vote you cast is verified against the choices you were just served.
Also, with most browsers, if you refresh the page without voting, you should see the same match-up again. Of course, you can find ways around this to keep getting new portraits, but it isn't easy to rig votes for one character without automating what we're doing manually on the site right now.
hmm, i use firefox with AdblockPlus and NoScript running the browser in privite mode right now and without cookies enabled. i can refresh the page as often as want - i always get new avatars to choose from. the only inconvience is the leaderboard which does not update itself so i need to refresh the page if i want to know who's the babe of the moment now.
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If my logs are to be believed, I've got some guy from Germany trying to crack this problem as we speak :) But, I take it as a kind of a compliment when people try to break the system. I can always take measures to reverse out the changes or reset scores if someone does break things completely.
i'm not sure what you mean by "crack this problem" but since i'm actually from germany i just hope i'm not that guy you mention 
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Originally by: Frank Cornelius
Also there is an obvious bias issue with the randomness of the selections in the first place. Certain characters appear to have an undue prominence in their frequency. There's over three thounsand entries, give some of the others a look in too.
It's a straight SELECT TOP 2, ORDER BY RAND() query. Purely random. Although, it might actually be better to have a more "random" pseudo random function pulling portraits, to ensure that newer entries get more exposure to get them up to speed.
Hope this answered some of your concerns!
i noticed some strange development in this regard: characters which appeared hours after i submitted mine - on the day your page went public - are about 100 votes above me. when i was sitting at 350 there were some already pushing to 500 and beyond. while my character got about 60 votes in 3 hours i saw several fresh ones created today getting about 100 votes in the same timeframe and actually pass me in total votes. it's quite strange imo.
oh and considering ideas and such: could you maybe make some sort of a diagram showing how characters from specific bloodlines compete among each other? maybe showing top 3 for every bloodline for each empire, then top 3 characters for each entire empire and finally top 3 for the whole eve universe - as an addition to the normal leaderboard right now.
i get a feeling that some bloodlines just canot really compete with others by design of the game(brutor women are quite "harsh beauties" for example) and this would help to alleviate this a little bit.
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