How to handle cheating

darkpegasus · 2009-03-10T21:22:19

So I have an iPhone game that I'm working on in which I would like the player's health to be replenished over time. The problem I have is that if I do it based on time the player can pause the game, change the system time, and then re-enter the game with full health and pick up where they left off. I have a few ideas, but could use some suggestions. The first was just to shorten the time that it took to refill so that it wasn't a big deal to wait a few minutes while playing. The second was to create some mini-game that would allow the player to fill up their health meter by playing instead of just waiting. Any ideas on an easy to code mini-game? What are some other ways I could handle this type of cheating?

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Started by darkpegasus March 10, 2009 12:05 AM

9 comments, last by darkpegasus 15 years, 11 months ago

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March 10, 2009 09:22 PM

Thanks for all of the great comments guys. Just a few things to clarify why this is such a hard decision. While it is currently a single player game, the characters that get built up will eventually interact with other players as part of a multi-player game. Also, it is set up as an RPG type game so there isn't really any "action" that allows the player to run away and hide to increase their health.

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