Screenshots

[cSense // David]

Once again, first one in this section 

I got some ideas regarding the screenshot issue of cheatSense, although I bet you are already implementing some points I will write'em down:

Each screen should provide some extra information
i) The timestamp when it was taken
ii) A unique screen ID
iii) The name or ID of the player it was taken from

I would add this stuff on the screen itself (and then save it to the database too?)
There are several advantages, first of all I can see when the screen was taken and from whom it is. Second point, if I notice something strange I can refer to the screen ID and ask! (i.e. "Please look at screen #1234567890, is this a wallhack?")
And if there is a database with all this data you can provide a search function to search for special users, screens in a specific time period and so on

[cSense // Ricosy]

Our lobby at some stage is supposed to store all the screenshots of a certain client (ID). I'm sure the time/date, name, ID and so on are somewhere in there as well.

[Ninjaman]

Regarding Screenshots, what I'd like to see is the information very clearly displayed in a logical manner.  If you look at PB SS the text function below the SS are very crude and you almost need to be a codebreaker to find the player name and GIUD etc etc in the middle of the text. 

Here is a PB SS I found with Google



As you can see there are loads of numbers and things that get in the way of easily identifying who and what is going on.

If I were laying it out I would like to see:

Player Name
Game Name    Server Name
GUID       PCID
Time    Date

without the rest of the clutter, what is all this "attempted X Y" stuff and why is it placed on the SS.

Something along the lines of this:



with, as requested, some unique SS idetifirer codes added on there.

[cSense // Ricosy]

True, and I find that SS very messy. As I've said, we'll have a lobby with all cheatSense servers, all players in it, ID's you can look up. All ingame screenshots from users and so on.

The thing at this point is, that the lobby is the thing that needs the most work still now. So I can't really say much about that, a coder might be able to tell you more about it. (Kankalin)

[kankalin]

Dear scrapper, all good idea, and we started the whole database saving those datas there, so u'll be able to search in it easily.
But i really like the screen-report suggestion, i think we need a site for that as well. Nice one!

Dear Ninjaman, currently we are just placing cS watermarks on the images now, but if the community asks for it we can write more data there.
As Ricosy pointed out we will have a Lobby page where You can search for players, read their infos and look at their screens.

We are planning to implement some sort of "Clan" system for the lobby, so Clan leaders would be able to create a group for their team, add members by their IDs.
This would mean You will be able to list all members from a Clan without searching for them.

[kankalin]

Oh, before i forget.

I would like to remind anyone who has any suggestion/idea/feature request: don't hesitate for even a second!

We really appreciate every idea You suggest, even if we already thought about it. We can't think about every detail by ourselves, and we are doing this for You.

Thanks!

[Eminent]

i have a question.
with sigurd you had all the fagz racing to get the lower ID's so can you set it up for randomation on ID's rather than in order of who runs it?
(just thinking it stops people having to wait about 5 mins to dl due to ppl wanting to get it as quick as tey can just to get a low ID
(also will save bandwidth)
if it is done in order of dl then ppl spam the dl section to be quick in dl it xD

[cSense // Redone]

The giving out of ID's wont be random. We maybe let it start at 100, or something we want. But from their on it will be going up 1 each time.

And the ID is determined at first run time. Not at download time

I don't know how much people are actually planning to download the cSense client, but we could setup a mirror if needed.

[cSense // Redone]

Btw, a question. That screenshot that is posted somewhere of Punkbuster. Is that the complete screen with some text added below, or is the botton of the actual screenshot replaced with text?

[cSense // David]

As far as i remember its replaced