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Editing files, Multiplayer games and fairness ??

unmerged(1248) · 2001-02-26T15:42:18+00:00

I don't have the game as of yet but I am seriously considering buying it. Because I have little faith in computer AI in general, I generally look at the Multiplayer capabilities of a game before spending my money on it. From what I have read so far it seems that EU is a fine game but one thing bugs me. I have read that it is reasonably easy to edit files to alter starting stats either to play as minor Countries or to have 'beefed-up' leaders and so on. Now, does the games' code have any check in place in order to ENSURE that in Multiplayer games this file editing does not happen and all players have the same files with the same content (i.e. stats' values and so on) ? It would be rather annoying to play against someone who has edited his files to get an unfair advantage....... I know an easy answer could be 'don't play against who you don't trust'......, but 99% of times one playes against total strangers (hey, it's the internet...) so if one would wanna play only against well known friends this would mean almost never playing EU multiplayer or no other game over the internet....... So, is there any code check for files and their content in multiplayer games ? Doge

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Start date Feb 26, 2001

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Johan

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Well, my code checks that most databases are the same, else you can't even join a MP game.

Also, almost all critical data is calculated at server and sent out.

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