W3MMD and Battletanks

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Another point is that the games have to be hosted by trusted GHosts, because every GHost++ could manipulate the data before writing to the DB.
I could think of a second database for the btanks stats. So the GHosts will all have their own DB and can also connect to a league DB if they host league games.

Well there's 2 ways to do this:
1. Everyone get their unique botID this is a new feature of Ghost++ that was added because I requested it. Basicly when Ghost++ is sending mysql data, it will send it's botid to mysql DB.
This way you can always check who's bot sent and what it sent. With this method you could basically allow anyone to run the Ghost++ bot. Of course this also need some MySQL User configuration (access).

2. Make a list of trusted hosts and only allow those to host league games. <- This is the method we are using. I'm hosting and maintaining all EAT-* bots and only those can add games to the DB.
This works damn well if you got enough money/knowledge to get a own dedicated server.