who the heck to you guys think is making these cheater boards guys?
It's the gun manufacturers themselves! Who do you think puts the breakout mode on Dynasty, Infamous, Philly, or whoever else is using cheater boards?
Sealed boards aren’t going to solve the problem, cause the cheater code is already going to be in there.
Doing a sum check to see if the code is a different size is irrelevant, as the cheat codes can lay latent in proprietary code' that has an 'undisclosed function' (can't give away all the manufacturer's secrets). The code lies latent and innocuous until it's activated by an sequence entered by a privileged player who's been given the secret sequence by the manufacturer.
You are not going to solve this problem by asking the manufacturers to give you sealed boards, as they are the ones supplying the boards.
Nick's option is far better, 15 bps, and no shots after the last shot.
Easy to test for, and no new equipment needed.
Basically we're talking about no ramping, no shot queuing, and a controlled rate of fire.
Also, maybe we need to get some head refs with some balls.
Steve, you're not the right guy to spearhead this, you're too concerned with not upsetting everybody. You're just plain, too nice. It's not a personal attack, it's an observation from working with you for the past 2 years. You can't make everybody happy, the guy you're trying to ban is going to be pissed with you, and his team too, regardless if he's cheating or not! Also Steve, isn't this supposed to be Ulrich's job now?
They have this guy over here in Quebec, who runs open Xball in Quebec. This guy rocks, he has a big ego, and he doesn’t take crap from anybody. He never backs down, if someone steps out of line, they get a penalty, and if they protest, and bring the game into disrepute, the get another penalty. Two weeks ago I watched him send one of the league owner (also a player) to the penalty box for two major penalties, and no amount of kicking and screaming could change anything. The guy's got balls, and his ego is big enough that he never backs down.
That's the kind of guy you need to sort this thing out. Someone who takes real pride in catching cheaters, and someone who thinks like a cheater too. 'Takes a wolf to catch a wolf'.
Steve, I’m glad you raised this thread, it shows that you genuinely care, and that's what people always respected about you (when they weren’t threatening to throw you from the tower
).
answer your main question, I don't think anybody really gives a sh!t about this issue, at least no one who's in a position to do anything about it. As long as the tournaments make money, and no one gets sued, it's not worth the hassle.
I remember Philly saying last year at CC, 'why is everyone trying to bust us all the time? ' It's hard enough for promoters to get American teams to come across the pond, you don't want to deter them by banning them for cheater guns too.
The millennium series, and the NPPL both have to address this issue before they can consider them selves serious competitive sports circuits. At the moment, I suppose they'll just concentrate on the business, cause at the end of the day, that's all this really is.
