[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by tinkthank:
Ah I get it. Not that I could ever figure out how to mod a god or so.
Did people complain about cheating? I mean, I just cant imagine DomII players to doing that (using those modded gods in MP without being told it is ok).

Not alot. I think my maps tended to spur the checks because it made Illwinter think about the possibilitys. In fact I see more complaints because Dom2 DOESNT have cheats (HEY! Why are there no cheat codes?!?)

Originally posted by Cainehill:
The one thing I've noticed Cheat Protection doing is preventing you from creating a Warlock pretender for Abyssia using 2.08 (because it accidentally got removed in 2.11) and then bringing it into 2.11.

So - the one thing that'd let you get around the new 2.11 bug, is caput because of the Cheat Protection.

That shouldnt a problem with the next patch. For two reasons. One is that the "turn off cheat" button will work, and I expect that if that is a bug it will also be fixed.

Originally posted by Chazar:
I though that this cheat-protection had somehting to do with rehosting: A PBEM-Host might copy the directory and host anew if the outcome was bad for him. This was just a guess of mine, since Warlords3 tried to monitor such reloads.

So I know that this is impossible to protect against, but Dominions does not try to detect this, right? Or does it keep track of a random seed, so that rehosting is useless anyway?

I dont think this is tracked. I think most hosts need to do this more often than they cheat doing this but I guess it is something to consider.

[ April 21, 2004, 17:33: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]