No, it's not super important. I just don't want to make too darn easy to cheat. Your way should suffice.
Now what about storing the data in an xml-file. Do you have any examples of how this is done? On May 23, 12:04 am, James Paige <b...@hamsterrepublic.com> wrote: > Well, I assume this is an open source game, so protecting the save state > from editing is not of highly critical importance, right? > > But you do want to inconvenience casual cheaters. > > I suggest saving your state to an XML file, and then compressing that > xml file with python's built-in zip module. Then rename the save zip > some non .zip filename like .save so that double-clicking on a save file > won't open it in your unzipping tool. > > If you want to try harder to prevent cheating you can run your xml > through some kind of scrambling, or obfuscation, but personally I don't > think it is worth the trouble. But it's up to you of course. > > --- > James >
