7 pte/ladder questions

judicatorofgenocide · November 17, 2014

1 Is the pte planned for 12pm Seattle time?

2 Will players play placement matches?

3 Will rankings transfer after pte, like previously?

4 Will players have veto option in map pool?

5 Will players be penalized in rankings for leaving match after seeing who opponent is but prior to match commencement?

6 What mods will be unsupported on ladder?

7 how many times per year will ladder reset?

killerkiwijuice · November 17, 2014

Soon.

lokiCML · November 17, 2014

JudicatorOfGenocide said: ↑

6 What mods will be unsupported on ladder?
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At the moment as far as I'm aware there isn't any kind of permission infrastructure that can allow or deny mods on the ladder. The competitive players who play ladder matches. Are just going to have to get use to the fact that people will be using mods. The client only has the information that's provided by the server which acts as a anti-cheat mechanism.

Anti-Cheat Measures
Cheating in video games, especially PC games, is rampant. A particularly common hack in strategy games is the map hack. In a synchronous engine there honestly isn't much a game dev can do to stop it. All clients simulate the entire game so all state information is in memory. It may require bit twiddling trickery but if an enemy unit location is in memory then cheaters will find it.

In Planetary Annihilation with our client-server architecture cheating just isn't a major concern [12]. Curves do not offer anything new to devs to stop cheating, but they do make cheat prevention a lot easier. Want to prevent a specific client from having position information on an enemy unit because they don’t have line of sight? Easy, don’t update the curves for that unit for that player. Problem solved.

What happens if a curve has missing data? Nothing. Sweet, sweet nothing. It’s a double win because players can’t cheat and bandwidth isn't wasted on units a player can’t see. For the most part a player will only receive updates for their units and the few enemy units within their vision range.

Eventually cheaters will find a way to force rendering of units that are in the fog of war. It can’t be stopped. All that it will accomplish is showing where the unit was the last time it was updated, but not where it is. Clients don’t even know a unit is destroyed until they have visual confirmation [13].

If how cheats are written is of interest to you I wrote about another form of cheating in a previous blog post, Extravagant Cheating via Direct X.
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- @forrestthewoods, http://forrestthewoods.com/the-tech-of-planetary-annihilation-chronocam/

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