[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Against cheating clients: global_advances patch.

[Jed Davis <jldavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On Saturday, 2 September 2000 11:32 -0400 Jeff Mallatt <jjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> At 2000/08/20 20:34 , Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> > Don't send to client any such information concerning global techlevel
> > that is impossible for user of standard (non-cheating) client to see.
> This doesn't address all cases.  I didn't do an exhaustive search, but at
> least the spaceship advances need to be included (at least, for now).
>
> Also, I think I'd eventually prefer to not send global_advances at all, if
> posible, send just the vector of obsoleted wonders.
Or, on the other hand, send the global_advances and provide an interface to 
it in the client, so there's no reason to cheat... Of course, this would 
break compatibility with Paycivs.
--Jed, having a nagging feeling that someone's already mentioned this