Friday, December 09, 2011

Proposal: Please take the detour.

Times out and passes 10-0. -Bucky

Adminned at 11 Dec 2011 20:12:04 UTC

In the Rule “Routes”, replace “makes it Inactive.” with “makes it Inactive if it was Active.”.

Currently a Blocked Route can be made Inactive by Avoiding it.

posted by Pavitra at 09 Dec 2011 03:01:03 UTC Comments (12)

Comments

Cpt_Koen:

09-12-2011 03:19:47 UTC

for Note the ‘.’ in case this is enacted before the cfj.

Murphy:

09-12-2011 03:25:05 UTC

for

ChronosPhaenon:

09-12-2011 03:36:35 UTC

for

Bucky:

09-12-2011 04:40:48 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

09-12-2011 06:27:53 UTC

for wow good catch

Soviet Brendon:

09-12-2011 08:34:43 UTC

for

Prince Anduril:

09-12-2011 13:33:15 UTC

for

ais523:

09-12-2011 20:32:52 UTC

for Good catch indeed. (It’s even mildly exploitable, although not seriously.)

Pavitra:

09-12-2011 21:03:51 UTC

The catch is not mine, I’m afraid. I posted this at the request of the IRC.

Spitemaster:

10-12-2011 00:35:43 UTC

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Cpt_Koen:

11-12-2011 02:35:38 UTC

Seriously exploitable:

0 Hi Hi Hi
1 Hi Hi Hi! (Driven)
1 Hi Hi!Hi* (Avoided)
2 Hi!Hi Hi! (Driven) <<
2 Hi Hi!Hi* (Scammed)
3 Hi!Hi Hi! (Driven)
3 Hi Hi!Hi* (Scammed)
4 Hi!Hi Hi! (Driven) <<

The two ‘<<’ lines are identical, which means this could generate infinite Cash.

Another way to exploit this loophole would be for a Driver to have two Highway Routes in their pool, then Scout for a new Route (Blocked), Avoid the first Highway (marking it Inactive), Drive the second (reActivating the first), Drive/Avoid the Blocked new Route, marking it Inactive, then Drive the first Highway Route to Activate the newly Scouted Route, which should have been impossible.

Pavitra:

11-12-2011 18:50:57 UTC

To be clear, this vulnerability is the current situation, and the proposal would block the scam.

You can’t actually have that Pool, because Scrubbing Routes can’t self-scrub. Even if you could, though, with daily Driving limits this “infinite loop” only gets you 2 Cash per day, which isn’t really all that game-breaking.