hello dear folks, I wonder if there has already been done some systematical research to address the cheating problems in onling gaming, if so could some one recommed an link to an article or research paper ,etc. .. thanks so much 824learner.

What problems specifically?

Yes, developers now build cheat codes in the games in order to support the problem cheaters have with hacking.

God bless them.

Maybe you want to be more specific?

For first person shooters, you could always send the player only the data they can actually see on their screen, instead of the entire game state. Of course, this would probably mean very high server requirements, but of course, no wallhacks. Doesn't fix aimbots and stuff though.

Be more specific, there are many genres, game types, etc of online games.

You need to define what you mean by "cheating" also. There's the stuff pretty much everybody agrees is cheating like hacking your client to give you extra ability, etc.

However it's not at all unusual for developers to say something is cheating and for players to say it's just being creative. Here players are doing something that was not intended by the game designers but is allowed by the (unhacked) game client and may be perfectly acceptable in some other context.

Then there stuff like buying items with RL money. As far as the game is concerned it's just an item trade and is perfectly acceptable and intended. But the fact that RL money changed hands may be against the EULA.

thanks, I think I am mainly interested in cheatings in MMORPG, there surely are many kinds of cheating problems in MMORPG, it will be great if there are some survey of various kind of cheats in MMORPG, or address one specific kind of cheating, ...

thanks,
824learner

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Original post by jonahrowley For first person shooters, you could always send the player only the data they can actually see on their screen, instead of the entire game state. Of course, this would probably mean very high server requirements, but of course, no wallhacks. Doesn't fix aimbots and stuff though. Be more specific, there are many genres, game types, etc of online games.

Doesnt sending the entire games state is more costly then sending what you just see?

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Original post by The C modest god Doesnt sending the entire games state is more costly then sending what you just see?

Costly in terms of network bandwidth, yes. But if the server has to do visibility detection on everybody for a 128 person Tribes game, you're going to have some issues to work on.

[Edited by - Promit on April 1, 2006 12:00:05 PM]

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Original post by Promit Quote: Original post by The C modest god Doesnt sending the entire games state is more costly then sending what you just see? Costly in terms of metwork bandwidth, yes. But if the server has to do visibility detection on everybody for a 128 person Tribes game, you're going to have some issues to work on.

This is a scenario where a physics processor (or a gpu doing physics calculations) could be very well utilized on the server.