Technical solution to eliminate desync in single-player sessions

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could such a proposal be made to work: yes

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would it open up potential security risks: yes

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would it cost millions: yes

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qwave wrote:

Either way, I promise that allowing the client to calculate combat is not a million dollar project. Hundred thousand dollar project, yes.

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I would really prefer they spent any new dev money on trying to fix desync in multiplayer as I think it would provide the greatest return.

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qwave wrote:

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would it cost millions: yes

None of us know how much it will cost. It depends on their existing architecture. Eliminating desync could save them millions in the long-run.

Either way, I promise that allowing the client to calculate combat is not a million dollar project. Hundred thousand dollar project, yes.

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With as much experience as you say you have in the field, im surprised you make such a bold statement like this without knowing the full inner workings of the current system.

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syrioforel wrote:

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geradon wrote:

problem is: game analyzing is more feasible in a orgnized group.
second problem: for thousands of people trying to hack your game you only need one to be successful and stupid enough to publish the hack.

i don't want a game to pester my pc with anti-malware software constantly background-scanning my pc's memory and harddisk for hacks like blizzard did with his wow client. wasn't a successful against proxy software running on another pc anyway.

a hacked game is a game prone to be dead sooner or later as unfair advantage of a few will kill the user count much faster than desync makes people leave.

you can never trust the game client any any way.

What's worse: auto-logout "hack" at 25% health, or anti-Kole crit hack?

One of these is viable right now.

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qwave wrote:

you can build a complete game from scratch for millions.

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And any change to a highly interconnected system may just involve that. A complete recode of all existing software. We have no way of knowing without looking under the hood.

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qwave wrote:

I promise that allowing the client to calculate combat is not a million dollar project. Hundred thousand dollar project, yes.

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qwave wrote:

Even if the core game rules are tightly coupled with their server architecture, this sort of code is almost always extremely easy to move to the client. I'll leave it at that.