What about people coming from the same network but sharing the same external IP address?
-----Original Message----- From: Matt Foltz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 12:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Embracing But Controlling Multiplay Yeah, maybe I'm using the wrong terminology - I wrote that e-mail at 3:15 am last night. What I mean is if their hostname/IP is the same (just using sockets to rewrite it). -Matt Foltz --- Jason Gauthier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sure I follow here... Each connection will have > a unique descriptor, so > using this as a check for comparison will fail > everytime. > > Can you elaborate? Perhaps you are talking about the > remote hostname or > something? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Foltz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 1:51 AM > To: Bob Gries > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Embracing But Controlling Multiplay > > > I had a brainstorm one night about ways to control > multiplaying. What I came up with was to make a > check_multi function which compares the descriptors > of > both players. If identical, it fails the check. > Then > you would put the check into anything like give, > grouping, etc. The only problem is that there's > still > ways around it (dropping items, softening mobs, > etc). > Of course, you could take it to the extreme and not > let another character login if the descriptor is > already connected. Just a thought. > -Matt Foltz > > --- Bob Gries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings. I am looking for a code snippet that > > instead of prevent > > multiplay, actually embraces it, but in a > controlled > > form. I am ideally > > looking for something similar to the retail form > of > > choosing a character > > (login, pass, list of character associated to that > > account), but I am > > willing to consider other solutions as well. > > > > In addition, in case there is not exactly the code > > snippet I am looking for, > > is there an explanation of the player > authentication > > somewhere on the web? > > If so, I can put a snippet together for all to > > enjoy. > > > > Take care and thank you. > > > > > > -- > > ROM mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs > http://www.hotjobs.com > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com -- ROM mailing list [email protected] http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom
