Huge Number of User Actions - Ever Seen This?

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I just finished a game and I was looking at the stats and noticed that my opponent had made a little over 4 million user actions vs my 2000+.  I double checked the digits...it was 4 million plus.  I tried to take a screenshot, but sometimes my desktop graphics are scrambled when I get out of Sins, so I lost what was in the buffer when I rebooted.

Has anyone ever seen this before?  Most games I only do a few thousand user actions, and I'm usually on the high end of the scale.  I can only speculate how someone could get 4 million (automation?),  or maybe it is a bug?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

I had a game earlier that said I had ~12 million actions (according to my friend - I had closed mine before checking actions), I didn't think to ask him to grab a screenshot though. I don't do any sort of automation, so my guess would be it's due to a bug.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Yes I've seen this. It appears whoever isn't hosting has a huge amout of user actions

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Yes I've seen this. It appears whoever isn't hosting has a huge amout of user actions

 

In this case it was the host....I guess it is a bug then.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

I had a game earlier that said I had ~12 million actions (according to my friend - I had closed mine before checking actions), I didn't think to ask him to grab a screenshot though. I don't do any sort of automation, so my guess would be it's due to a bug.

 

OK, first time I had seen it, I wondered WTF is going on?

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Actually, it appears to be a client thing. These two screenshots are from the same game-

http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/natural/075c3976835791fa55bc9e595d85358d32841361.png is what I saw.

http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/natural/c879c0b120cc0bed23c5e6b07f79f04f8877394f.png is what my friend saw.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Skynet is starting to take over.

Never did know exactly what user actions was supposed to be, we sort of just assumed it was mouse clicks.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

There was a thread a while back on this... had a screenshot labeled 'Good Clicker'. The OP calculated it out to be something like a thousand actions a second.

 

:fox:

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

I have seen it again....just a new bug I guess.

Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top

might be the koreans who are used to play starcraft i heard from a friend that they can make like 400 UA/sec vs average players 50 UA/sec

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

Not actions per second, but actions per minute.  A typical mouse and keyboard system can't physically process 400 actions per second.  Typically, APM counts every click with the mouse and hotkey press, which I would presume is what Sins is counting in this metric.

Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top

might be the koreans who are used to play starcraft i heard from a friend that they can make like 400 UA/sec vs average players 50 UA/sec

 

Hehe, as Darvin points out, it is per minute, and even that seems kind of fast.  I have seen video of Korean players in tournament, and the guys hand was epilectic on the the hotkeys he was tapping them so fast.  I can't compete with that, though I can't help but wonder how useful it is to button spam when things in the game only happen so fast.

 

That said, this is one of the reasons I like Sins and I don't know how excited I am by Starcraft II Multiplayer.  My poor hands can not handle the button mash fest super hi twitch  / hi user action games require.  Sins with Alloy speed boost almost runs too fast for me...I'm not as young as I used to be, and I don't need carpal tunnel.  Sins has a good pace and requires smart strategy as much as it requires micro.

Hopefully Starcraft II won't be all about the button mashing....

Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top

It has to be a bug, on my game I used the game time to calculate that it reported two users had performed an action over 81,000 times every second.