[CF-Devel] Future crossfire changes/projects

[Mike Ponicki]

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      What about security. Both from cheapers and from hackers.
     
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      Blizzard is have terrible problems with hackers, from a game playing standpoint,
     
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      ie assinating hard core players, to compromised machines.
     
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      If everything is held in the client, won't it be possible for someone to tweak
     
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      equipment? Change stats?
     
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     I played Diablo a LOT online, and everyone was level 50 (hacked player
files). Verant TOTALLY solved cheating (I mean, cheating was impossible, I
never heard of it in EQ) by simply having all the player files themselves
on the server. Crossfire is already like this, so there shouldn't be a
problem. As for security, I know little, except is there a way we could
encrypt player data or something, and use some sort of semi-secure
connection, or would that be too slow?

-Sniper
     
     sniper at citilink.com