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Re: Misc notes/thoughts.
On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, Tadah wrote:
> ATTENTION all programmers.. Idea here.. :>
> Why not have encrypted RSA player files kept on the players computer?
> Netrek does something like this with its clients so that people can't mod
> clients and cheat. Why not do this with player files, and to what
> advantage? It would be great to be able to move your player to other
> servers should a server go down, become slow, or whatever. No?
> Well, anyway. Just an idea.. :>
No no no... It would be too easy to cheat. Imagine : I install a server
on my machine, and create a map with free armor/spells/money/etc. I get a
munchkin character, then move it to the ultra-strict server where you
play, and bash everythng about...
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