# Alternative to Community-Dedicated Servers

**URL:** <https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/alternative-to-community-dedicated-servers/28671>\
**Category:** Suggestions\
**Created:** [August 30, 2018, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/alternative-to-community-dedicated-servers/28671 "2018-08-30T18:16:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![MightyBalian](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/mightybalian/32/34283_2.png) [@MightyBalian](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/MightyBalian)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 9:20pm UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/alternative-to-community-dedicated-servers/28671/9 "2018-08-30T21:20:51Z")

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> [@Announcing Community Condos](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891/1):
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> > [@Announcing Community Condos](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891/1):
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> With these core points, we can’t offer community dedicated Plaza servers, even today, sorry.
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> 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.
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> 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.

Why not add a South American server? That’s really the only region that still doesn’t have any servers.

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