Lots of questions
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| I have a lot of questions (most of them are questions about direct play stuff, but there are some others) When i am playing a direct play server, how does the user send a message to the host? If i was making a mmorpg, would the weapons/skills/items/quests be stored server side or client side? I am making a couple of ciphers, but i am having trouble making a program to encode/decode it. I am using the replace command, but everything goes back to normal after i use the replace command. (I am currently just using the replace command by it's self, should i assign a variable, eg encode$ = encode$ + replace(encode$,"h"."b") for example?) is there any way to connect to myspql database? I will add more q's later. |
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| If i was making a mmorpg, would the weapons/skills/items/quests be stored server side or client side? Typically the server should keep track of all the accomplishments, and assign the proper weapons/skills/items/etc -- otherwise it would be trivial for someone to edit their savegame, and give themselves more health / objects, etc. With the server in charge of all that, it just needs to keep track of when you earn something, and it knows you have it. When connecting you use a username/password, and the server can retrieve your current status. for pretty much any client/server communication the following goes: Never trust what a client tells you. (More important with a multiplayer game than with singleplayer, since a single cheating player can make a multiplayer game bad for everyone else too. One cheating player that becomes unbeatable sucks the fun out of the game for everyone.) As far as the cyphers are converned: there is some code in the code archives that should address that. Don't know about Blitsplus, but for blitzMax the syntax for replace is as follows: encode$=replace(encode$,"h","b") Just letter substitution is a pretty bad way of obscuring your info though, it will be trivial for people to reverse engineer. MySQL: I'm not aware of any BlitzPlus MySQL connection libraries, but in principle it's possible.... |
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| IIRC, DirectPlay has been deprecated by MS. You might want to look at alternatives to future-proof your game. |
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| Thanks xlisoe. GaryV, what is MS? I'm not familar with that acroynym. |
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| MS = Microsoft. Directplay is on its way out, it's quite possible that it will be gone in future versions of Windows. |
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| Yeah, I find TCP easier to fit to my purposes anyway. |
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