Sorry, newb question.
Daily challenge, I dared to look at the top player's score.
How is this humanly possible? Less than 10 sec per each perfect location. These were not some obvious places, too.
I must be doing something very wrong :(
Posted Oct 1, 2021, 7:58 PM UTC
It's not. This is a bot or a second account.
they're just cheating
At the top of most maps you’re gonna find a few cheaters. That’s one of them.
I play on my tablet and it takes me ten seconds just to try and zoom in on the guess map.
The locations are determined by the "seed" in the URL and somebody wrote a bot that plays those locations.
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People use two accounts, so that the second time they play they can put it in the correct spot as they already know the answer. Don't know what the point of cheating in an online geography game is but there you go
Nah, these are scripted cheats. You can't get that accuracy that quickly even if you know exactly where the location is.
idk they would all be like the same time if it was a script. I think they just have the results map open from the first time they play through and then zoom in as quickly as possible each round
It's not possible. I have no idea what the scripts do exactly so I can't explain the time differences to you (even if I have a couple ideas), but manually, it can't be done.
Fair enough, guess there’s cheaters and then there’s cheaters
I'm not so sure.
I tried seeing how long it takes for me to zoom in on a known location, and without a mouse and only a macbook trackpad, I can do it in about 8 seconds. I wonder if someone is just fully geared up for it.