Quote:Original post by mr BiCEPS
I see that you're from the USA. I thought the export restrictions on crypto there were lifted years ago?
Quote:Original post by hplus0603
5) If you find yourself shifting goals towards banning the maximum number of people, then you're in trouble.
Quote:Original post by krum
1) believe your game is unhacked, and 2) let radar get so far out of control that 30% of your players are using it, then obviously you can't ban them all.
Quote:Original post by FaladosQuote:Original post by mr BiCEPS
I see that you're from the USA. I thought the export restrictions on crypto there were lifted years ago?
I don't think so [Unless that is outdated or irrelevent, didn't read it too much] I really don't keep up with encryption export laws so I wouldn't know, Its just a waft of information I picked up and thought I should be conscious about.
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Legal challenges by civil libertarians and privacy advocates, the wide spread availability of encryption software outside the U.S., and the perception by many corporate interests that adverse publicity about weak encryption was limiting their sales and the growth of e-commerce, led to a series of relaxations in US export controls, culminating in 1996 in the effective elimination of export controls on mass-market "shrinkwrap" and open source software containing cryptography (which, in any case, a "rogue state" could have downloaded, and subsequently verified, from file sharing networks or servers outside the US).
Quote:I need a find a way to make it both secure, and still not have the server, in essence, play the game for all its connected players.
Quote:Original post by hplus0603
Well, good luck with that!
I wouldn't even try, because any system that relies on peers can be hacked with determined peers. Your best bet is to solve the problem through game design.
Quote:Original post by Falados
I would like to design this project to combat cheating as much as possible. Most of the time, closed-source projects have an easier time because they aren't exposing the client-side network protocol,
Quote:Original post by krumQuote:Original post by hplus0603
5) If you find yourself shifting goals towards banning the maximum number of people, then you're in trouble.
True to a point... When I worked on UO we banned everybody we could, of course we could afford it at the time. The exception to that was a little tool called "UOAssist". Anyway, if you do what Mythic did and 1) believe your game is unhacked, and 2) let radar get so far out of control that 30% of your players are using it, then obviously you can't ban them all.
Quote:Original post by MENTAL
The only thing the client needs to send is the direction the player wants to move in (NOT the new location of the player - the server works that out for itself) and any actions the client wishes to perform.
The server sends the client details about what is currently visible to the client - nothing else. If you keep to this rule the only thing the player can do is reprogram the client to do repetitive tasks automatically (i.e. like mining), which should be easy to pick up on the server.
Don't even send any monster detail other than which model it uses and which animation it is currently performing - the client simply doesn't need to know.
