19 billion likes

[Yi Mei]

Player named 24800 has 19 billion likes. I have the print. Is it serious?

[LIMP BISQUICK]

Wow, that's nuts. I've finished the game. The last time I boot it up my structures didn't have likes. I don't care so much for likes but it's the only sign of confirmation that I've somehow helped other players. I plan to go back and finish side missions and stuff. I like the idea of helping others in the process -mainly beginners with basic equipment etc. but I feel like my stuff might not even show up for other people.

[Wujek Cacek]

Originally posted by Jibbles:

Wow, that's nuts. I've finished the game. The last time I boot it up my structures didn't have likes. I don't care so much for likes but it's the only sign of confirmation that I've somehow helped other players. I plan to go back and finish side missions and stuff. I like the idea of helping others in the process -mainly beginners with basic equipment etc. but I feel like my stuff might not even show up for other people.

Oh no, I refuse to believe that none of your structures have any Likes. Did you try changing the sorting in the Bridge Links from Most-Recent to Most-Liked?

[cyäegha]

101% hackeroonied

i'm not even sure that the very first person accredited with completion of a full road network on PS4 could passively accrue that many likes, to say nothing of the obviously falsified miscellaneous stat
typically, having a miscellaneous stat that's abnormally high relative to the other stats is a dead giveaway that somebody hackermanned their likes

[Mudpuppy]

Some people always go too far

[Yi Mei]

I think this score is impossible under normal conditions. Only the system gave him 3.5kkk of likes... I apologize if I'm wrong. But I feel in my skin, in 350 hours of gameplay, how difficult it is to farm like in DS. Is there any chance of getting hacked?

[David Davidson]

When on chapter 2 just after building my first generator I saw that I had gotten precisely 1000 likes from another player.

As likes appear to be a 'spam button as fast as you can in a given time limit' writing a 1000 press key macro wouldn't be a hard thing to do at all, especially as most gaming keyboards/laptops come with key macro software.

If could be them cheating in another way or them having a friend/alt account press a button and blast out likes.

[Bubba]

Originally posted by David Davidson:

When on chapter 2 just after building my first generator I saw that I had gotten precisely 1000 likes from another player.

As likes appear to be a 'spam button as fast as you can in a given time limit' writing a 1000 press key macro wouldn't be a hard thing to do at all.

The likes also have a max limit of 1000 not just a time limit. I'm often giving players 1000 likes for use of their truck, bike, or structure etc. quite easily without a macro.

But yeah, the 19 billion seems way off, I played every day for 5 months trying to see if level 500 porter grade was attainable and am not any where near that kinda score.

[cyäegha]

Originally posted by David Davidson:

If could be them cheating in another way or them having a friend/alt account press a button and blast out likes.

that would only contribute to their bridge-link score, but their miscellaneous score is also disproportionately high
as miscellaneous likes are given when the game cannot attribute likes to any of the other categories, such as the volume of your cargo or the time it took you to deliver it, any likes that you could give yourself via memory injection or whatever would go straight to the miscellaneous category

i've seen a few players with stats like that and they all have massive spikes in their miscellaneous category whereas a legitimate multi-millionaire would have one that was proportional to the other categories

the only category that can legitimately be disproportionate to the others is the bridge link category as it can be accrued passively from your structures and your contributions to the road network and so on

[Overseer]

So how many likes does a legit console player have on something big who played this since day-1? It would be helpful to have a scale. Because if i would play this every day and collect all these likes i would have way more than my 1.1 million that i got during my 500 mission grind.

[cyäegha]

that's probably a question only the most die-hard, devoted player whose save was never overwritten and had completed the road network shortly after launch could reasonably answer

i could feasibly see, providing they had logged in at various points between then and now to 'redeem' those likes, a figure possibly in the realm of some 30-40 million, possibly in the 50s if i'm being generous and i'm only counting passive accrual
in the grand scheme of things likes you earn from actively delivering things, even online likes, positively pales in comparison to passive likes from roads and structures
for scale, with two-thirds of my road network built primarily by myself, i think the most i'd banked after about a week-and-a-half of not playing was something like 50k

how much of that also depends on what instance you're in i cannot say; given that i had kind of stopped over in chapter 6 and smashed out about 200 LoLoL deliveries, all the while building up and maintaining a road network far beyond what anyone else in that instance would likely have done, i was probably vulturing a lot of the accreditation for said road network from other players
almost like dunking on them with a smurf, if you will
in an endgame instance where everyone has completed the story and probably done a fair amount of work on their road networks, accreditation rotation is more infrequent and those passive likes are fewer and farther between

tl;dr - in the double-digit millions, most likely

[Bubba]

Originally posted by Overseer:

So how many likes does a legit console player have on something big who played this since day-1? It would be helpful to have a scale.

Not console but I've played a lot (2100 hrs) since getting DS on PC early Nov '20 and here's my stats if you'd like them for reference:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2526179117

[David Davidson]

Originally posted by Bubba:

Originally posted by David Davidson:

When on chapter 2 just after building my first generator I saw that I had gotten precisely 1000 likes from another player.

As likes appear to be a 'spam button as fast as you can in a given time limit' writing a 1000 press key macro wouldn't be a hard thing to do at all.

The likes also have a max limit of 1000 not just a time limit. I'm often giving players 1000 likes for use of their truck, bike, or structure etc. quite easily without a macro.

Doesn't that require you to mash the button 1000 times or can you just hold it down?
As if it's the former then that's some dedication right there.

Originally posted by Bubba:

Originally posted by Overseer:

So how many likes does a legit console player have on something big who played this since day-1? It would be helpful to have a scale.

Not console but I've played a lot (2100 hrs) since getting DS on PC early Nov '20 and here's my stats if you'd like them for reference:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2526179117

That's an impressive screenshot.
Did you start playing on very hard? Is there a new game+ or can you change difficulty?
Also, the lack on travel on bikes kind of baffles me. Is it a battery thing or do items on your back take damage when transporting them on a bike of you pogo stick the thing on hard/very hard? Only one item has taken damage (very minor spoiler) an antimatter bomb but it was a super delicate item, everything else seems to be fine as long as they're on your back. From my 10m straight up bike pogo sticking across parts of the map I assume my Ex grenade No.2 contain bits of Sam's spinal column.

[Bubba]

Originally posted by David Davidson:

Doesn't that require you to mash the button 1000 times or can you just hold it down?
As if it's the former then that's some dedication right there.

The former, bashing the like button but as your bridge link level increases so does the time it gives you to do the bashing ( 10 seconds at bridge link level 60 ).

Originally posted by David Davidson:

Did you start playing on very hard? Is there a new game+ or can you change difficulty?

You can change difficulty at any time, I switched to very hard about chapter 8 or 9 when I found that the mini-bosses drop more chiral at the very hard setting.

Originally posted by David Davidson:

Also, the lack on travel on bikes kind of baffles me.

Gotta keep in mind that most of my play hours were doing deliveries in Chapter 15 (after story finished) trying to level up my porter grade and best way to do that is to only take the big orders that give max likes, and combine several orders into one trip, thus the truck usage. I used ziplines solely for the purpose of getting to areas that had structures needing repair. Farm chiral crystals from the mini-bosses and set out with 99,999 crystals (max allowed) and repair structures and roads very quickly without having to cart a bunch of metal or ceramics with me.

I eventually gave up on the porter grade 500 idea as it seems the milestones to reach next level grow exponentially. Take Bridge Link as an example; I went from bridge link level 94 to 95 at about 6 million player likes, now I'm at 8.1 million and only just over half way to level 96. Just gonna take way too long when I've got other titles in my library that have been calling out to me.

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