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Re: Star Craft 2

Mon, 11 May 2009 21:14

Madman

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m.a@stars wrote on Tue, 12 May 2009 05:15

There's been some advances in that direction recently. Cool

Perhaps if enough people pesters/begs/bribes him he'll release non-Net-dependant user-and-AI-friendly utilities. Rolling Eyes

I think it would probably be less effort to get a full Stars! clone running than to to reliably reverse engineer the .m and .x files and write code to read/write them.

There's also the matter of security - the one _really_ bad engineering decision in the design of Stars! seems to have been that the server doesn't do full validation of the orders, so if there was enough code was around to deal with the .m and .x files, someone would use it to cheat and wreck a game or two Sad

When I do eventually find some time for Stars! coding, I'd want to put it into FreeStars, or whatever project (that can run on Linux) was most promising to get a fully open source Stars! replacement, rather than retrofitting to a dead codebase (no offense at all meant to the great work that PaulCr has done - everyone has different interests).

This should probably be split to a thread in another section ...

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		Star! AI playing against AI By: Madman on Sun, 10 May 2009 21:38
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		Re: Star Craft 2 By: Madman on Mon, 11 May 2009 21:14
		Re: Star Craft 2 By: m.a@stars on Wed, 13 May 2009 06:32
		Re: Star Craft 2 By: sirgwain on Thu, 14 May 2009 15:50

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