Re: ALS BOF

[Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net>]

Parasite wrote:
 
> I am surprised to hear that there wasn't much concern for cheating. I think
> this should be very high on developers lists. While a less popular game may
> not have that many people playing, and far less cheaters. The more popular
> a game gets, the harder it is to control the cheating. I think cheating
> should be considered from the very start of the game.

There have been *endless* discussions on this on OPENGL-GAMEDEV and
gdalgorithms - and the conclusion is always the same.  Even with closed
source games, it's completely impossible to stop determined cheaters -
and pretty damned difficult to stop even casual ones.  With OpenSourced
games, you are screwed.

I don't think that developers are unconcerned - but in the face of
something you can do little or nothing about - what are you supposed
to say?

I don't think we should rehash the technical details of the discussions -
check the archives of those two lists before you imagine you have some
wonderous fix for the problem.


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