Alternative to Community-Dedicated Servers

[macdguy]

@macdguy

First off, we don’t have an effective solution for protecting the Casino economy from hacking. A server host could pull a man-in-the-middle attack on the bets and transactions to mimic or alter player participation in Casino games.

The same thing goes for any Boardwalk games, Bowling, and the Arcade.We can’t reliably determine if a payout was authentic in this scenario.

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.

With these core points, we can’t offer community dedicated Plaza servers, even today, sorry.

That’s why Community Condos are the route we’re taking. We will have more condo activities, but not everything can replace the Plaza activities.

And it’s not just a simple MITM attack, it’s straight up that non-official dedicated hosts can easily just give Units to players unless we spend a lot of time developing a solution for that.