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Re: Stars Encryption

Mon, 19 March 2007 14:04

m.a@stars

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I believe I'm not saying anything new, but:

Deal

We aren't dealing here with some mission-critical piece of state-of-the-art, but with a very bug-ridden and cheat-prone ancient code. Whip

at the moment, dozens of cheats, bugs, possible abuses, mods, and crashes are known, and you can bet a fair number of "hidden" flaws and exploits exist too. Evil or Very Mad

the Stars! experience/replayability would vastly improve if scenarios were easier to set up and "special" policies/rules to apply. The list of games for the past couple years shows it, as well as the near-imperative of a "non-playing host" or a "third-party umpire" Rolling Eyes

the existence of even a single turn-checker/validator/enforcer tool, however limited, would significantly change the balance. And it's not like the encryption/password system is that hard to hack anyway. Sherlock

add-ons (battlesimming, empirewide order checking, mineral balancing, threat assessment, AI) would become suddenly possible and suspicion-free. I've seen more games killed by boredom/MM than by cheats or bugs. Sad

I therefore vote to spread the base of possible coders of such sorely needed marvels before the issue becomes largely academic, iow, our beloved Stars DIES. Shocked

So many Stars, so few Missiles!

In space no one can hear you scheme! Deal

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		Re: Stars Encryption By: Dogthinkers on Sun, 18 March 2007 17:26
		Re: Stars Encryption By: Kotk on Sun, 18 March 2007 20:37
		Re: Stars Encryption By: Coyote on Mon, 19 March 2007 13:29
		Re: Stars Encryption By: m.a@stars on Mon, 19 March 2007 14:04
		Re: Stars Encryption By: crr65536 on Mon, 19 March 2007 17:29
		Re: Stars Encryption By: Kotk on Tue, 20 March 2007 11:21
		Re: Stars Encryption By: crr65536 on Tue, 20 March 2007 18:43
		Re: Stars Encryption By: Kotk on Wed, 21 March 2007 00:38
		Re: Stars Encryption By: crr65536 on Wed, 21 March 2007 15:04
		Re: Stars Encryption By: Kotk on Wed, 21 March 2007 16:32
		Re: Stars Encryption By: m.a@stars on Thu, 22 March 2007 04:38
		Re: Stars Encryption By: Kotk on Thu, 22 March 2007 10:57
		Re: Stars Encryption By: Dolphin on Fri, 13 April 2007 15:07
		Re: Stars Encryption By: Carn on Wed, 04 April 2007 04:44
		Re: Stars Encryption By: m.a@stars on Wed, 04 April 2007 09:24
		Re: Stars Encryption By: PaulCr on Tue, 03 April 2007 07:35
		Re: Stars Encryption By: Kotk on Wed, 04 April 2007 12:21
		Re: Stars Encryption By: gible on Fri, 06 April 2007 23:03
		Re: Stars Encryption By: Kotk on Sun, 08 April 2007 08:39
		Re: Stars Encryption By: PricklyPea on Fri, 13 April 2007 10:58
		Re: Stars Encryption By: PricklyPea on Fri, 13 April 2007 10:59

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