Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 12:18:58PM -0800, Neil Stevens wrote:
>> Actually for a game like battleship, and any game with incomplete
>> information, you HAVE to do everything server-side.  Otherwise it's too
>> easy to cheat.
> 
> Why? You can do the check after the game (as you would have done in real
> world). It can be done for example lake this:
....
> So it would be the same safety as in real game

That's a good protocol for making such cheating detectable, but it
doesn't prevent the cheating.  A trusted server acting as moderator
prevents the cheating, so it's still superior.

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