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

[Marko Lindqvist <caz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Jeff Mallatt 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).

 Well, I did grep 'global_advances' and found no other cases where it is
used client side.
 With spaceship advances, you are referring to game_next_year(), correct?
It's called only from city_change_production_penalty() and
game_advance_year() which both are called only from server.

> Also, I think I'd eventually prefer to not send global_advances at all, if
> posible, send just the vector of obsoleted wonders.

 Eventually, yes.


 Caz

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