making a game (Page 2 of 2)

In Faldon the server controls movement too, if you move too fast you hit a glass wall but people can still exploit it.  The server also controls AR, but if you cheat and increase your AR, your character on screen hits super fast but not on the server... great, except the client keeps sending hits even after you've started to move away.. so long as the server sees you as "close enough" to the person you're hitting, it registers the hits.  Mean while, you're running around healing by now.  But wait, you say, "I'll just make it so it only counts if you're within 1 tile of the person!"  Sounds good, except now, because of lag, you've made warriors completely useless. :\  So, it's kind of a tradeoff... how much you want to make server side versus how much bandwidth per connection and how much you can account for lag.  Honestly, and as much as I dislike the system, the best way to avoid exploits such as those I mention is to make PvP and PvM like Runescape was (or maybe still is, I've not looked at that game in probably 5 years) as well as a number of other games: when you want to attack something, it's a turn-based exchange of attacks.  For example:

You attack a skeleton-
"What attack do you want to use?" and you select.. uhhh.. melee:
You swing your short sword and miss the skeleton.
Skeleton bites with his snaggletooth and hits you for 10.
*you select exorcism*
You successfully cast exorcism on skeleton and do 145 damage. 
You have killed skeleton.

*back in text-based RPG land when I came from, it would now say "you find 5 gold and a snaggletooth", in graphical RPG land you can just make those appear on the ground... or in a corpse container or however you want to handle it.
While that might not be the most fun and action-packed way to do it, it eliminates most of the PvP and PvM exploits in Faldon.  You can no longer AR Hack, speed hack, run hack, damage hack, etc.

lmao. the only problem is attacks are fixed by a player's "speed" so theoretically the same thing could work, as in the being away from the player, as soon as you move too fast the server boots and bans your character and announces it to the server and the rest of the people playing, for instance:

'This is within the player timer code:
If UserList(UserIndex).Counters.Movements > 0 Then
                UserList(UserIndex).Counters.MovementCounter = UserList(UserIndex).Counters.MovementCounter + 1
                
                If UserList(UserIndex).Counters.Movements > 1 Then
                    AddtoTextBox frmMain.txtMsgs, "CHEATER: " & UserList(UserIndex).Name & " was banned for speed hacking."
                    SendData ToAll, 0, "@" & UserList(UserIndex).Name & " was banned for speed hacking." & FONTTYPE_WARNING
                    Ban_Char UserIndex, 0
                End If
                
                If UserList(UserIndex).Counters.MovementCounter = 6 Then
                    UserList(UserIndex).Counters.MovementCounter = 0
                    UserList(UserIndex).Counters.Movements = 0
                End If
End If

that is the exact rate of movement, givin a 1 second extra, it should take no longer than 5 of that counter to complete 1 move, but i gave it an extra tick for when there are more than 1 person on, seeing as how more people the longer the counter will take, not by much though; and i doubt my game will have more players than faldon
as far as turn based attacking goes, I could set it up exactly like runescape, where you have to target a monster or PK and hit the attack button, then the player timer and player's speed stat controls how fast he attacks that monster/player...
my ranged attack works like runescapes, you target something, then attack, you have to wait a little while because the server times the hit based on your speed and weapon, (the AK47 automatically shoots)but you have to take into account that archers and mages have targeted attacks and can attack from a distance, whereas warriors would have to actually approach their target.
I am not im going to keep it banning players, but i made it so that your character actually just freezes and you cant move until the server lets you again, when the time is appropriate.

now theres a speeding counter as well so you dont have to log off if you are attempting to speed hack, itll just lag you back to the spot as soon as theres a significant burst of  speed, that handles that, now to look into the case of the unfairness of classes attack methods.

Juza, how are you going with that game now, as it has been around 7 months since the last post?

I can't wait to get into the actual game. Hopefully the beta comes sometime soon. . .

As long as I am internet capable Juza, you'll have at least 1 player!

Sounds awesome!

Can't wait to see it.