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Comment Re:Microsoft's Palladium is here (Score 1) 75

It is a necessity that part of the game is loaded to the client that exists beyond just the minimum required to render a picture on the screen.

Record player actions. Use randomly-selected other players' systems (from a pool of those who are playing on the same map) to verify those actions which you flag as suspicious during times when they are waiting for other players to join a match or similar.

Comment Re:Why would you import chips if you weren't build (Score 1) 48

What is the point of heavily taxing repair shops and electronic hobbyists? Aren't they two things that we want to be encouraging?

Just remember the person proposing this idea has bankrupt several casinos and is famous for not paying his bills.

But hey a woman who was a former prosecutor laughed so that certainly disqualified her.

Comment Re: Consoles (Score 1) 75

"Physically handicapped players who need custom controllers to be able to play at all can get locked out simply because the manufacturers refuse to make the needed hardware."

It's generally pretty easy to connect your own controls to the official controller's PCB, Don't the people who make such controllers know how to do that?

Comment Re: Microsoft's Palladium is here (Score 3, Interesting) 75

There is no issue with latency in detection of cheating on the server side, unless you insist on stopping it before it happens. That would be nice as it would prevent cheating, but it is not necessary. As long as you are requiring accounts, then it's good enough to detect it after it happens and ban those accounts. If cheaters had to buy another copy after every time they cheated, it would drive them out of the game.

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