On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 12:48:40PM -0800, Neil Stevens wrote: > 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.
This prevets cheating too - if you know it will detect you are cheating, there is no point in it, therefore no motivation. So why vould anyone bother. -- This email has not been checked by an antivirus system. No virus found. Michal "vorner" Vaner
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