Hi, Yes, SOD is a great game, but the biggist cheat is saving before using a weapon or entering a dangerous area. I have all to many times blew up a wall, checked the message, and restored the game getting my mine back. In this sense only saving between level changes is a little more fair as when you restore from that restore point you still have the score, health, and lives, etc. That however won't stop a cheater from cheating.The data has to be encrypted or they will eventually figure out how to back engineer the data file, and restore from a point or have something else they shouldn't have. This is the kinds of thoughts I think James had. He was big on not cheating. However, as you pointed out Raul not all of us has 4 or 5 hours to play until you reach the treasure room. So perhaps there is two modes in the works. If you want save game ability then you can not use scoring, etc.If you want scoring then you can not save the game.
Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello all. > > I know it's not fair to compair games like Pacman and Space Invaders to > pinball because of what you mentioned. I'm only thinking of the time > factor here. While it's true that in a real arcade situation one goes > and spends hours there without being able to save the game, this is not > reality here. When you play computer games you are already entering the > world of imagination. This is the whole point. > > Tom brings up a good point in that with saved games one is effectively > cheating. Take Shades of Doom for example. I have done this and I know > most of you have. You save just before going into a room so you can > replay it over and over in case of a monster who is hard to kill. For > this reason I like the style of saving which is in place for Monkey > Business. You can start and continue at each level but you cannot save > from within the level itself. > > Again, I'm only stressing the time factor here. I'm not suggesting saved > games should be available to allow cheating. At least one solution which > would work is a system where you can only save at the beginning of a > level, not in the middle. > > Again, only for reasons of time spent. > > > - -- > It is not enough to have great qualities, we should also have the > management of them. > -- La Rochefoucauld > Raul A. Gallegos ... IliwSsmc > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFEKXmwqqqqyw8Or2IRAl0KAKCH+Xu1rr9GeZL0dNTV6GGAvl9aGwCeNR6P > 06pu/cttfXLtQe6GYhTlJw0= > =hK9a > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. > > > > SPONSORED LINKS > Computer video game > <http://groups.yahoo.com/gads?t=ms&k=Computer+video+game&w1=Computer+video+game&w2=Visually+impaired&w3=Computer+games&c=3&s=68&.sig=k_TWUhlouW5OfRCKAVcsHA> > > Visually impaired > <http://groups.yahoo.com/gads?t=ms&k=Visually+impaired&w1=Computer+video+game&w2=Visually+impaired&w3=Computer+games&c=3&s=68&.sig=IVZTY7MpD1Ya0-JyCm1BcA> > > Computer games > <http://groups.yahoo.com/gads?t=ms&k=Computer+games&w1=Computer+video+game&w2=Visually+impaired&w3=Computer+games&c=3&s=68&.sig=ElS2polQvblKENRKSIO8Fw> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > * Visit your group "blindgamers > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindgamers>" on the web. > > * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of > Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindgamers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
