Thus spake jason tanner: > So I've attached below a message from a player about our latest VASSAL troll. > Thi > s is just one example of lots of games he's ruining but this message > encapsulated > almost every problem we see. We deal with one of these morons about one a > year a > nd so if this seems like a case of deja vu, it is. :) > > Last time I brought it up, there were some comments that 3.0 would address > some > the various concerns. I just got 3.0 and started reviewing the feature list > and > editing options and I'm not noticing anything off the top of my head that > would h > elp so I'll just ask if there's been any progress in any of the following... > > 1. Fixing the Undo button so only players can Undo. (I see no need for > Observer > s to have this function available as it's easy to ruin someone's game just by > hit > ting Undo 50 times.) > 2. Increased MOD security so you can tell if your opponent's MOD does not > match > yours (so dice exploits are not nearly as easy.) I've suggested a CRC echo > in th > e past. > 3. Secure roller within the MOD rather than just via email.
I thought I was going to revisit my dice roller sometime before the end of the year, but I both underestimated how much work the projects in the queue before it would take and overestimated how much time I'd have to work on them. It is still next on my list, after the memory management/zooming/graphics stuff I'm doing now (which is in a usable state, as of two days ago). -- J.
