Can't Retain Winnings On Community Server

[macdguy]

We have come up with many ways to help secure Plaza servers, as we detailed on our announcement post.

The issue isn’t clients on the server, the issue is the server itself. You cannot assume clients will report their earnings correctly, there has to be an authenticated check of gameplay events.

@macdguy

Some authentication schemes were proposed internally but would require a lot of extra development time to get working, we’d like to spend that time making new stuff for the game instead.

The other issue we’ve run up against is, we don’t have plans for Plaza customizability. The Plaza is a very complicated part of our game and we just don’t know how to open that up to players for customization.

Basically, our two main points were this:

1. Authenticating custom Plaza servers would require a lot of extra development time - and we’d rather spend it on making new stuff for the game.

2. We never set out to make the Plaza customizable. Server owners would not be able to modify or add custom scripts that could make their server unique (to attract players towards their servers). Custom scripting and modification of the Plaza map was out of the scope of project. We found that Condos (and the tools we have there) would serve as a better way for server owners to customize and attract players towards their servers. This choice also lets us enhance the Condo tools for every player - not just server owners. We also stated that we’ll also be looking into more Plaza-esque levels that you can unlock for your condos.