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May 9th, 2003, 08:23 AM
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Re: SE4 Editor
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Yes, but it did happen that the dreaded "Tim Continuum" stroke without cause, not often but it did happen.
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I suspect that is why they fixes were disguised as random events, and the host program didn't automatically boot the offending player out of the game.
However, assuming the false positive has the same chance per player (or the same chance per ship/planet processed) then it still makes for a fair game - you just have a new source of random events.
Besides, false positives are just programming bugs or transmission errors, and theoretically could be worked out in a different implementation.
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May 9th, 2003, 10:25 AM
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Re: SE4 Editor
I think I am still going to develop this, but it will be alongside my mod. Since most of the mod will be components, tech areas, and facilities, most of the coding is done. I will continue to upload the latest Versions of my editor every now and again to my web space. Work on the mod has started, maybe I will post about it soon |
May 10th, 2003, 01:47 AM
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Re: SE4 Editor
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As soon as you let people access the code, someone (or many someones) will devise ways to cheat.
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Well there are ways around that... for example:
How about if you could build up a map from text files? You could have a folder containing a stack of such files: One per star system, defining exactly what is in the system, what abilities apply, what graphics to use, where the warp points go and everything. It would be really easy for enthusiastic programmers to create handy map editors if maps could be defined in this format.
Obviously though this format wouldn't be secure at all, and so it would be useless for actual game use. Therefore the clever bit would be for Malfador to give us a "map compiler" that sucks in all the text files and spits out a secure map file exactly like the ones the game currently uses.
We get our easy-to-edit format, Malfador gets to hang on to map security. Everyone's happy. (Even Fyron!  )
Technically I can see no reason why this shouldn't work, except that Malfador has more important things to do than code us a map compiler |
May 10th, 2003, 03:37 AM
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May 10th, 2003, 05:39 AM
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May 10th, 2003, 06:00 AM
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Nothing can satisfy the FYRON. Didn't you learn that by now, Dogscoff? 
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