CD key violation?!

[Gandalf Parker]

As I understand it, it goes like this...

The game compares incoming turns from the nations. If it sees the same IP from different machines then it considers it a violation (how is it supposed to know otherwise?)

The problem seems to come up when the host sets multiple AIs, especially if the host also plays a nation in the game. Especially if the host does the ai setting and then plays from a different machine.

It cant be that the master password alone will skip the key check since that would be quickly abused. I can agree that setting a nation AI should probably skip the check if possible.

[Bluebird]

One other detail that would be great is if the binary could abort hosting on a CD key violation, as it does with the wrong client version now.

This would prevent stale turns and give the players the opportunity to clean up the mess. And this should be really easy to implement, as the check is already there and a hosting termination is easy to code (printf("Some text\n"); exit(1).