Botvich, Dmitri, McGibney, Jimmy, Ostapenko, Georgy, De Paoli, Stefano, Kerr, Aphra and Keatinge, Max (2010) Integrating Players, Reputation and Ranking to Manage Cheating in MMOGs. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games . ISSN 978-1-60558-937-4
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Abstract
In this paper, we propose an approach that uses in-game
reputation as a solution to the problem of cheating in massively
multiplayer online games. What constitutes cheating
is however quite context-specific and subjective, and there is
no universal view. Thus our approach aims to adjust to the
particular forms of cheating to which players object rather
than deciding a priori which forms of cheating should be
controlled.
The main feature of our approach is an architecture and
model for maintaining player-based and context-appropriate
trust and reputation measures, with the integration of these
into the game’s ranking system. When an avatar loses reputation,
our approach intervenes to reduce its ranking. It
is envisaged that players will come to attach value to reputation
in its own right. We also present the results of relatively
large-scale simulations of various scenarios involving
sequences of encounters between players, with an initial implementation
of our reputation and ranking model in place,
to observe the impact on cheaters (and non-cheaters).
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Massive multiplayer online games; cheating; reputation; trust; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology |
Item ID: | 2758 |
Depositing User: | Prof. Aphra Kerr |
Date Deposited: | 06 Oct 2011 15:43 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games |
Publisher: | ACM |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/2758 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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