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Old August 10th, 2004, 12:09 AM

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Default Re: How is cheating possible?

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That being the case, there's no defense short of server checking, and there's a lot of checking to do. The type and quantity of every asset a player apparently holds (gems, items, units etc) in the incoming 2h file has to be reconciled against the ftherlnd file, and that's not easy.
I'm not sure it's so bad. I think all the server needs to remember is how much stuff each player started with at the beginning of a turn, and then get a list of new stuff each player's moves created. If a list cost more than that player had, something's gone wrong. Alchemy makes the problem a bit harder, but I don't think dramatically so.
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