DarkLife enters testing phase

The real factor is to decide how upset you are going to be when someone does 'crack' it. That should determine the amount of effort you put into securing the communication.

True Ama, but then again I don't really think people in Second Life are like that, and isn't it against TOS to mess with other peoples project in any way (never really read them)

If I decide not to use your ideas on channel-security it would be a good idea to think of a way to easily change all the chat-channels.

And yes I would be rather disappointed if someone found and abused the channel-numbers or even worse tell everyone the channel-numbers.

But I'm still comparing the chance of that happening, the consequenses of that happening, and the amount of work I'de have to put in to prevent it, and the diffrent methods I could use to do it.

So you can imagine it's a pretty hard decision, but I have to make it before I start the working on the full version of DarkLife

But on the other hand, I already put a security in the demo that let me disable all the backpacks with version X that try to play. So I could use that in the final version as well, and if I notice someone has been cheating I could disable the whole game until I know what happened and know how to correct the error...

but still thinking

Very good points and you are definatly thinking on the right paths which is good.

A couple observations: Times your "chance of that happening" by a factor of 10 at least. That is just from experience. I think you will have DL running for a LONG time and the longer it runs the more likely someone will try hard to crack it.

Look for another email from me.

More weapons and more monsters added!

Pirate

What a fry........a virtual world within a virtual world.....iam trippn......anyhoo

This reminds me of Phantasy Star/ Zelda. Once outta bata will you be able to offer up campaigns? or choose different player forums. Ex: roleplayers version vs hack n slash??? And area seems to be midevil....do you like it that way and is that what you are looking for in DL? Aspecific time period and to have players adapt to that time period with choosing period specific weapons, attire and so forth? I love it.....blows my mind tho.....man....cant wait to get home and slay up some spiders.....

hugs
jojo

Er, lets just get it running first

We'll be adding more monsters and weapons this week and soon start working on the live version which will hae clsses etc.

Pirate

lmao....okies....just got excited and beside myself...i will calm down.....