How did someone just complete my adventure in 2 seconds?

So I have an exploring adventure with six chapters each having an average of two goals. The goals are mostly bring an item to this location.

I can finish the mission in about 2 minutes noodling around and not viewing the sights. The leaderboard shows someone did it in 1:46 or so, so hats off to him. Then suddenly, someone takes the top spot with a completion time of 2 seconds?

I've seen this on several adventure leaderboards. Something doesn't seem right here, either in what they are doing or some bizarre flaw that is beyond me having tested my adventure some 25 times already.

Any ideas?

Tom / Gliber

Can you provide a link?

Sure thing.

The adventure is here: http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=sast-500370957777

Was the adventure 100% complete?

Yes it was 100% complete. It could be a glitch.

The adventure was complete 100% by the player.

Other adventures with leaders having extremely low time:

http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=ftr-adventure%3Asast-500364776183%3Aview-top_rated

http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=ftr-adventure%3Asast-500364908861%3Aview-top_rated

http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=ftr-adventure%3Asast-300001149112%3Aview-top_rated

Heck...it's a LOT of them. It was like this before the site update today, so that is not a major factor. I could certainly be missing something obvious, but something is odd.

Tom / Gliber

With such short times, could they be cancelling the *load_adventure* before any goals are recognized and winning due to no goals needed being the victory condition?

Spore On

yea im have the same thing happen on my race mission i cant figure out what thay are doing either

rulycar wrote:With such short times, could they be cancelling the *load_adventure* before any goals are recognized and winning due to no goals needed being the victory condition?

Spore On

I sure hope not... I did find it strange that someone completed my adventure in 31 seconds.

Hax. *Sagely nod*

Yep, I think we've got hackers on our hands. They're likely exploiting some sort of glitch in GA that would allow them to get an insanely low completion time.

The only other possibility I can think of is that spore.com is accidentally recognizing certain completion times as being much lower than usual.

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i just played my updated version for the 1st time and got 1:18 and looked at the leader boards and my own time is 0:18 so now i think thay not broken or cheating but the times arnt being recored correctly.
http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=usr-CellDaniel%7C2268214635%3Asast-500377337238

hackers would either not use a main acount or have multiple great scores every one of those high scores are done on acouts with at least 50 uploads and most have only 1 golden trofy that sounds like it's just a bugged system

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I think it may be an error - have a look at this:
http://www.spore.com/view/trophies/Casius86

According to that particular guy's trophy case he only has 1 trophy, which is for a fairly reasonable albeit blistering time in another adventure. So it may be the entry is erroneous as he hasn't been awarded that mission for his trophy collection.

It's also noteworthy that there is no captain icon for him on that mission:
http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=sast-500370957777

Apparently notonly did he do it in two seconds but he did it without a captain

looks like it's a problem with uploading than ...