Re: cheating

["Carl Edman" <cedman@cedman.remote.Princeton.EDU>]

From: Peter Mardahl <peterm@soda.berkeley.edu>
> Part of the reason that I'd like to see LOS done on the client is
> that it would be nice to have a larger display, as large as your
> client could handle computationally.
> 

> The current little display is kinda small, in my opinion, and I'd
> like to see the freedom in the design of the client to make the
> display larger.....

The protocol I proposed a few days ago allows arbitrarily large  
displays and makes use of them by allowing the client to keep all parts  
of the map it has ever seen in the display, even if LOS is done  
server-side.  Those two issues are unrelated.  All the server  
determines how far away an event can happen and the player still  
perceive it.  That is a fact of the simulated world (much like the  
weight of items or how many spell points a fire ball costs) and as such  
falls under the domain of the server.

> As to player killing, most server gods forbid it.

I think that is a pity.  Killing players should be hard and at least  
when done in towns have very serious in-game consequences.  Also it  
should be not too hard to resurrect powerful players so that a  
potential assassin also has to consider the possible revenge of the  
character himself (in addition to other characters of the same player,  
characters of friends and automated law-enforcement "monsters").  Just  
making it illegal by server god fiat greatly detracts from the human  
interaction which makes a game like crossfire so fascinating and from  
at least my enjoyment of the game (even and in particular as I very  
rarely indeed actually would try to kill another player character).

	Carl Edman