[CF-Devel] sounds system

[Andreas Vogl]

Mark W. wrote:

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      > Trustworthyness is a tricky issue.  There is some level of exposure
     
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      > of data that the client maybe should not really know, but letting the
     
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      > client know it doesn't expose much risk. [...]
     
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      As I said in another message, player map location IMO starts to
     
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      open up things much more to make clients that cheat and make play
     
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      much easier.
     
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      The trivial 'cheating' client would just dump out all the sound
     
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      sources when the player enters the map, ie something like:
     
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      torch.wav (5,10)
     
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      torch.wav (15,12)
     
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      waterfall.wav (20,3)
     
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      [...]
     
     
I agree that we shouldn't give away critical information to the client.
But I think it really doesn't make sense to bother about minor stuff
like map size, player- or soundsource locations.

Don't forget that all the map data for crossfire is available to anyone.
If I want to make a cheat client, I can integrate the whole CF map-bundle
in my client.
Then, I can easily create features like these:
- Whenever a player approaches a gate with magic_ear, the password gets
  printed automatically.
- When a player approaches a locked gate, the exact coordinates of the
  appropriate key get printed.
- When a player is fighting a monster, the monster's resistances get
listend.
etc etc...

So, considering this is possible and noone has cared about it yet - I think
map size, player- or soundsource locations are minor.

Andreas V.