Determining if hacks were used

[JoshisaNoob]

Noob question...

What are the most obvious signs that someone is hacking? I use the BWLauncher w/PP, so my reps show the "suspicious actions," but those aren't always suspicious. It's pretty lame to claim hax when you lose, so I don't want to falsely accuse anyone.

This is the rep that makes me wonder. I think I might have played the worst map hacker..ever. Needs to be watched with BWL/PP..or else it doesn't show more than half the game.

[U-238]

Yea he hacked. When he's clicking on units of yours that he can't even see that's a sure fire way to know he's probably hacking. (he had no comsat either).

Now depends what you mean by the "worst map hacker ever". If you mean in playing terms then he was definetly bad, but maybe not THE worst. If you ment in hacking terms then yea, maybe.

A few thoughts on what you did.

1. Never leave any stray enemy rines in your base. Otherwise they'll bite your ass like there's no tomorrow.

2. For about half the game you had a SCV just to the north of his contain. Later you tried to move him back. Wrong thing to do. What you should've done is move him to an empty expo and expand his ass off. He only had his main running and if you would've expanded to the top of the map he'd have a choice of either losing econ and eventually being overrun at his main or, he'd have to risk sending units up there do destroy it leaving his contain open.

3. When breaking out of a contain like you did place your mines at the very head of the ramp. You placed yours too close to the tanks. Your first tank nearly died and that could've turned the tide into his favor. (rush rines up ramp next to tank, kill tank then point shots at vultures till either the rines, or the vults died)

Other then that, yea, he probably hack, I'm 99% sure of it.

[JoshisaNoob]

I meant he was the worst in terms of a player with working hacks. I mean, if you're gonna hack to gain an advantage, why not go all the way with resources, fast building etc..? lol

Thanks for the input. I'm gonna look over that rep again a little later with what you said in mind. And to (somewhat) justify what I did with that SCV, I ran it back in to see what he had there. I wasn't really trying to "save it" or anything. I don't know that I would have thought of expanding with it though.

[U-238]

Thanks for the input. I'm gonna look over that rep again a little later with what you said in mind. And to (somewhat) justify what I did with that SCV, I ran it back in to see what he had there. I wasn't really trying to "save it" or anything. I don't know that I would have thought of expanding with it though.

If you were going to do that you probably should've pulled one off your mineral line. Having a worker on the other side of a contain like that is a hugely golden opportunity that you'll only get once in 500+ games.

[JoshisaNoob]

Very good point. *Noted*