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8359: [MUD-Dev] Re: Trusting the Client (Re: Laws of Online World D esign)
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From: J C Lawrence <claw@under.engr.sgi.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 15:00:08 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 15:38:21 -0500
Wilburn, E J<WilburnE@kochind.com> wrote:
> The only real problem I can forsee would be the user hacking the
> client to respond to triggers much quicker than they would be able
> to manually. In most cases this presents no problem but it all
> depends on your implentation and wether or not your game includes
> any time sensitive listening procs. Most clients build in some
> form of Macros which is esentially the same thing (with or without
> the trigger ability).
Given that I actively support and encourage free user programming on
the server, this is hardly a problem. Any automation or
intelligence you can implement as a client-side function can be done
as server-side soft-code with the advantage of guaranteed response
time (which is not present for a client) as well as an environment
specifically crafted to support such operations.
Given that world, automated clients are generally at a potential
disadvantage (for the first time) as verus straight telnet users.
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