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This one was posted on my FB account quite a while ago and stirred up quite a conversation (between boys only due to obvious reasons). I am reposting the snapshot here for a wider audience. Of-course what is shown here is stereotypical male view which I don't endorse. For a… Read the full article
READER DISCRETION ADVISED I hardly ever use Orkut anymore nor do I have any intentions of using it ever, yet I can't gather enough streghth to delete the account. Reason? Testimonials - few words of love from your dear ones. Accidentally I stumbled upon the Azadian 2009-10 magazine, the annual… Read the full article
Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar (A Marathi Manoos), popularly known as Sharad Pawar or 'Saheb', is considered to be the richest politician in India. For all those wondering where his riches come from here is a clue...
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This financial downturn is taking a toll on everyone but the IPL players out there hardly realize that. Auctioned at such exorbitant rates they just don't give a damn for the penny spent on them. The owners of the teams should utilize them in different activities which they are good… Read the full article
Getting bored in this IT age is something counterintuitive. But the hard fact is I get bored more often now than I used to ten years before when DD1 was the only channel available and Super Hit Muqaballa was the only countdown. It was more exciting to wait for Chandrakanta… Read the full article


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My Idea or Yours? The Ownership of Ideas
The boom in the intellectual property market will not reap rewards for us all
Andrew BrownSaturday November 19, 2005The Guardian
The difference between ideas and things is obvious as soon as someone hits you over the head with an idea - so obvious that until recently it was entirely clear to the law. Things could have owners and ideas could not. Yet this simple distinction is being changed all around us. Ideas are increasingly treated as property - as things that have owners who may decide who gets to use them and on what terms...(more)
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Wow. I never thought I'd be able to pick this back up again. But here we are, actually new content, after days of my posting the stuff I already did. It'd be nice if I could keep going after this, but well… there's a reason all of my posts have been TRoOS for the past week or so. More arthritis nonsense.
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Heart pounding, Travis pulled his knees up to his chin. It felt like a nightmare, just picturing his friend in peril, thousands of miles away. He didn't have the experience necessary to cope. He didn't want to step away from his computer, but he also had a strong urge to run out the door and demand assistance from someone. Anyone.
His hand shook as he hovered his fingers over the keyboard. She'd get to a neighbour's house, call the police, and then everything would be perfectly fine. Burglary was a thing that happened.
As his mind wandered towards his default comfort zone, his hand dragged the mouse through a series of distracted actions.
He stared at the word document until his eyes started to swim in the large expanse of white screen.
"Oh crap," he whispered. "I think I get it now."
He yanked his keyboard off of his desk and into his lap. His fingers flew over the keys, his usual habits entirely forgotten in the rushing exchange of information.
"I saw something the other day," he said aloud, as if that might help his words reach Persephone, "and now you're seeing the same kind of thing. It's a monster."
The chilly night air made goosebumps rise all over Persephone's skin. She felt as though tiny people were all trying to burst out of her at once. Rubbing her arms, she sneaked along the fence and stared at the window to her bedroom.
No one stuck out an unpleasant head to seek her out or follow her route. Not right away. Still she stared, unblinking. Her eyes began to water, and then she tripped over a sprinklerhead.
A strangled cry died in her throat.
Pain lanced through her shoulder as she hit the ground, the cold of the damp grass underlining the sensation. She whimpered, momentarily forgetting the window.
The wind started to pick up. She glanced up at the window, then scrambled to her feet.
A silhouette stood there, lit up by the yellow glow of her desk lamp. It was fuzzy, as if standing against the glare of the sun.
It was also standing in front of the window. Not behind it.
Persephone scrambled over the fence, trying not to panic. Her hair was in her face, obscuring her vision. It had been a trick of the light. Her neighbours were home, even sitting on the porch. She ran to them.


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Craving Her Ex-Army Doc by Amy Ruttan is full of drama and raw emotions. Luke Ralston lives an isolated life, he doesn't need drama. He had enough heartache to last him a lifetime. So when Dr. Sarah Ledet saunters into town Luke wasn't prepared to have his quiet life unhinged. He and Sarah may have their differences but the attraction sizzling in the air between them is real. It is how they move past the hurdles in their relationship as they do their jobs in the medical which makes this story unique and interesting. Medical romance fans will love this story about two broken people carrying the weight of their past on both shoulders.
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p.3 The Regatta - The arrangements for the regatta in the harbour on Monday are completed, and everything points to there being a fast race. We hope the weather will be pleasurable for that purpose.
Mr. Taylor, of Kingston, Government Inspector of Steamboats, came up from Montreal this morning on the Algerian, and was occupied throughout the entire day in inspecting several of our boats. [Brockville Recorder]
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Holcomb & Stewart's - Prop. Scotia from Toledo lightened 4,200 bush. corn and proceeded to Montreal; prop. Europe from Toledo lightened 4,200 bush. corn and proceeded to Montreal; barge Snipe arrived up from Montreal with 25 tons pig iron for Davidson, Doran & Co., 15 tons for John Brokenshire, and 75 tons coal for Calvin & Breck; barge Lark arrived with 100 tons pig iron for Davidson, Doran & Co., and 1,300 bags salt for A. Gunn & Co.
Port Colborne, June 28th - Up - Schooners Josephine, Toronto, Black River, light; Pulaski, Collinsby, Cheboygan, light; F.J. King, Clayton, Chicago, light; Mary Ann, Kingston, Chatham, light; Montcalm, Charlotte, Chicago, coal; Mary Battle, Collinsby, Marquette, light; Sweden, Kingston, Sault Ste. Marie, light; W.W. Grant, Port Dalhousie, Toledo, light; Canada, Kingston, Cheboygan, light; Ella Murton, Hamilton, Cleveland, light; Huron, Thorold, Point Pelee, light; prop. Garden City, Ogdensburg, Duluth, gen. cargo; Lawrence, Ogdensburg, Chicago, gen. cargo.
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In Harbour - schrs. Huron, Canada, Sweden, Montcalm, T.J. King, Pulaski.
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I was reading an article on model based development in the February Communications of the ACM (Software Model Checking Takes Off by Steven P. Miller, Michael W. Whalen and Darren D. Cofer). Model based development (MBD) is the use of domain-specific, graphical modeling languages that can be executed and analyzed before a actual application is built. This allows developers to create a model of the application, execute it on their desktops, analyze it with automated tools, and use it to automatically generate code and test cases.
Now if you take that definition with business as the domain, and BPMN as the modeling language – you pretty much get what many people think of as a BPMS (or at least what a BPMS should be). Now if you look at the state of what is feasible based on the technical literature vs. what most BPM vendors claim for their tools using standard modeling techniques (e.g. automatically convert from model to running code with no need to program, complete round trip between executable and model, the ability to model, simulate and execute even the most complex business process) you have to come to one of the following conclusions:
- The state of the art in Business Process Modeling is far beyond the state of the art in modeling of every other domain.
- Business processes are trivial compared to what needs to be modeled in any other domain
- BPM suites are useful frameworks and tools to help with the modeling of business processes, and they also provide a framework of support for developers to translate the model to an executable language – but don't expect them to truly bridge the gap between a model and the application that implements the process – unless you have really simple process.
I don't believe 1 is true – I haven't seen any technical breakthroughs in the literature that are specific to business as a modeling domain. With respect to 2, I know business processes are quite complex – and they are used to manage complex, dynamic systems. I also know that the broader, more complex and more dynamic the domain– the less possibility there is to model the system as a whole. You can model parts of the system – but not the whole end-to-end system.


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This week's reading was a chapter from How People Learn titled "Learning and Transfer" and an article by Wiggins & McTighe "Put Understanding First". I found them both to be very persuasive. To summarize, learning is more than about memory recall. Learning is also about taking information you already know and applying it to completely different situations where you might need it. This happens in my GIS class right. We will learn something in one lab and then have to use that knowledge in subsequent labs. For instance, this lab on georeferencing requires us to understand map layout, raster and vector formats, and ArcGIS toolbars. These are all tools that I learned in earlier lab. I wouldn't say this is the easiest way to learn (if you didn't learn something well you pay later) but I do see the use in this.
I'm generally in favor of expanding the way we assess and the way we get information. After college, I was fascinated by how little my liberal arts degree in history didn't immediately apply to any of my day jobs. But then after a couple of months, I begin to see patterns. For instance, being a history major meant I was able to contextualize large amount of information into time series. This made me particularly good at organizing reports and understanding complicated processes.
I particularly liked this quote from John Dewey in Chapter 3 "School should be less about preparation about life and more about life itself" (77). There's something very salient about the idea that perhaps we've abstracted life preparation too much. At the same time, it is often tricky finding what will be useful and relevant. Certainly in library school I often look at classes and visualize how I will use them in my later career. Most likely most of my "graduate school guesses" will be incorrect. The best librarians I've met have an uncanny habit of speaking well of every class they had in library school saying they learned a lot from them. Perhaps the best librarians are the ones that can see learning opportunities where they can't see the immediate application in front of them.


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Here's to life and every joy it brings,
Here's to life, to dreamers and their dreams,
May all your storms be weathered,
And all that's good get better,
Here's to life,
Here's to love,
Here's to you.
(Artie Butler and Phyllis Molinary)
Nearly 60 Years of Friendship
December 14, 2014
Best of the Season to old friends Gord and Joy, Jerry and Judy, Dave and Nancy,
Eleanor and Johnny.
Joy and Gord, thanks for including us in your Vancouver Island itinerary in November
We wish you warmth and more.
Pour yourselves a glass of dark smokey red wine,
Listen below with intent, to the many shades of mellow,
The burnished tones, the muted gleam
Of half forgotten dreams and
Half remembered delights,
Life's afterglow.
(Shirley Horn and the Boston Pops, Here's to Life)
(Use headphones if you have them since the volume is low but if you have none it is still worth the effort)
Love, Deanne and Garry


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Sorry for my long unexplained absence. I have been busy with some real-life adventures which took me away from my writing. Shortly after having my second baby, my husband and I chose to move across the country to be closer to his family and begin learning the skills for what you might call "backyard homesteading". As interesting as all of that is, I will not be telling those stories here as this blog is dedicated to fantasy stories. The way these lifestyle changes will effect this blog and my writing in general is that I plan to spend much of the year gardening and will probably make writing more of winter project in the future. For now I will wrap up the Quests series in a couple more posts. I'm hoping for another episode at the end of April and the final episode some time in May. After that I will take a break from writing and blogging until the late fall or winter.
Now without further ado, on to Quests!
Read the series prologue here.
Read episode twenty here.
Episode Twenty-one: Dark Wings
Tap, tap, tap! The knocker's noises led into a wide cave then died away. Oakley slipped inside and whispered, "Lilac, are you alone?"
"Oakley!" Lilac cried. "I heard you were here. The goblin said the guards were going to kill you and then he and the troll went to look for intruders…"
"Shh!" Oakley warned. "I'm all right. We made it passed the guards. Lasa and the others are waiting for us on the mountain."
He moved closer to the cage and inspected it.
"You're hurt!" Lilac exclaimed pointing to the scratch on Oakley's neck.
"It's nothing," he said touching it briefly with his left hand. Then he asked, "Where's the key to this cage?"
"The troll took it with her when she left."
Oakley tugged at one of the bars with a finger then bent to look at it closer. He looked back at Lilac and spoke slowly, "I might be able to break the gate open, but it's a bit risky. I'm not sure I can do it without hurting you."
"I want to get out of here. Now tell me what I need to do."
"Okay," said Oakley. "Go to the far side of the cage and hold on as tight as you can."
Lilac obeyed. Oakley lifted the sword he had taken from the goblin guard and slammed it against the lock. Lilac held on even tighter. Oakley alternated between trying to snap the lock and pry the on gate itself, until he got the cage open.
"Hurry, they might have heard that," he said as he pulled away the last piece of the ruined door. Lilac shot out of the cage. The two friends hurried out the entrance which led to the outdoors. The fresh mountain air filled their lungs. They breathed in deeply. It was easy to find the path even in the dim moonlight. They hurried along it, stopping when they came to the place where Oakley had left his winged horse.
"Lilac, fly a little higher," said Oakley. "See if you can spot Lasa and the others but don't let any enemies see you. I have to find my winged horse then we'll leave."
"All right," said Lilac and flew into the air.
As soon as she was gone Oakley turned and softly called the horse's name. There was no response. The animal must have wandered. Oakley called again more urgently but still there was no sign of the winged horse. Slowly the elf moved onto the rocks near the path, continuing to look for his mount and watching for enemies. He became more worried with every passing minute.
The wind seemed to turn colder as it brushed against his cheek. The sky darkened momentarily. Oakley glanced up and gasped in surprise when he saw huge bat wings blocking the moon. A new fear filled him as his mind registered what it was seeing. The strellogroth dove at him just as he started to run. His foot bumped a jagged place on the rock and he fell. The strellogroth flew toward him, claws extended. Oakley twisted and slashed upward with the sword. He sliced open one of the creature's claws. The strellogroth let out a high pitched cry which made Oakley's ears ring. The monster wrenched the sword out of the elf's hands before he could react.
While the strellogroth was distracted by the sword, Oakley crawled away from its scrabbling claws. He stood, and was about to run again when he heard the sound of something whistling through the air. He ducked as the sword flew over his head and clattered over the rocky edge of the mountain. Another high pitched screech told him the strellogroth was still chasing him. He noticed a small depression in a boulder in front of him. He dropped and rolled into it.
The monster dropped a few feet to be in a better attack position, but Oakley was ready for it. He gathered up bits of loose rock and hurled them at the creature's face yelling, "Get back you big bat!"
He was too frightened to care who else heard him. With a few mighty beats of its wings the strellogroth flew higher to avoid the stones Oakley was throwing. Oakley waited a few minutes, listening for the beast's return but he heard nothing. Slowly and cautiously, he came out of his hiding place. When nothing happened, he picked his way across the rocks.
He was halfway to the path when he heard the noise of wind rushing under giant wings. He froze in fear, but the sound continued to grow. He dropped to all fours slamming his hands against the hard stone. Huge bat-like wings passed inches above his head before the monster returned to the air. It was clearly toying with him. Oakley pushed himself into a kneeling position.
"Stop!" he screamed at the top of his lungs. "Leave me alone!"
Out of the corner of his eye Oakley saw the strellogroth turn to circle back toward him. Something about the way the creature moved made it clear that it had become serious. It was coming in for the kill. Oakley scrambled to his feet as panic made his heart beat faster. The strellogroth slammed into his back, knocking him to the ground. He screamed as wave of pain shot through him. As the monster attempted to wrap its claws around him, Oakley reached out blindly, grasping for something to keep him sane. His hand closed around a jagged rock and his mind snapped back into focus. He twisted and stabbed the rock into its leg. The creature gave a sharp noise that was almost a scream and pulled back to dislodge the makeshift weapon. The strellogroth charged him and slashed his chest with its claws, leaving a set of deep scratches. Before he could even attempt to retaliate, the beast pushed him backwards and pinned him to the ground. The monster's great wings seemed to block out all light. It opened her mouth showing large fangs. Oakley realized he was hyperventilating. This was it, the strellogroth would kill him now. He hoped that his quest had been successful and the others had escaped. He shut his eyes and prayed it would end quickly.
Thwack! This new sound rang through the darkness and was followed by a sharp voice.
"Let him go, bat-brain!"
Lasa, it was Faralasa's voice! There was another thwack, and the strellogroth shrieked. Oakley opened his eyes to see Lasa hovering near the great bat's head. She brought down her stolen goblin sword once more on the monster's already bleeding ear. The strellogroth forgot Oakley. It took to the air to battle Faralasa. Oakley dragged himself away from the fight.
"Over here!" someone hissed.
Oakley turned to see the fairies crouching on the rocky slope above him. Removing the tattered remains of his party shirt, he used it to bind his bloody chest. He then pulled himself into a hiding place beside the fairies, grunting as the effort caused pain to spread from the wounds.
"You made it," he whispered turning to Lilac. "I was afraid it might have got you."
"I found Lasa and the others before it came," Lilac replied. "We heard you scream came back to help."
Oakley nodded and turned to watch as strellogroth and airwalker circled each other. Faralasa somersaulted to avoid the monster's snapping jaws, then sliced off the strellogroth's bleeding left ear. The strellogroth screeched and flapped its wings wildly in front of it.
Lilac flew a little higher then suddenly shouted, "Lasa, there's a group of elvin warriors below us."
"Is Beritta with them?" asked Faralasa while still slashing at the strellogroth.
"I can't… wait yes! She's at their head riding Mist!"
Oakley turned in time to see a number of goblin and troll warriors pour out the front gate of the underground city.
"Beritta, look out!" he shouted.
He jumped to his feet, intending to launched himself into the path between the elvin princess and the enemy warriors, but a wave of pain and dizziness washed over him, forcing him to his knees.
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I've really been enjoying reading the Twitter feed from UberFacts. I just like knowing random things. And – for some reason unknown to me – I'm able to remember useless information better than important things (like my anniversary). Someday, I may be able to profit from all this trivial knowledge (I tried out for Jeopardy! but didn't make the cut – this time) but until then, I'm just going to enjoy learning fun facts. Here are some beauty-related facts you might find interesting…
Did You Know?
– On average, women spend fifty-eight days of their lives shaving or waxing unwanted hair.
– In the late 18th century, members of The French Court (Marie Antoinette, et al) obsessed over having flawless alabaster skin. They faked it with thick layers of white powder (made out of everything from white lead and talc to pulverized bone) combined with wax, whale blubber, or vegetable oil
– A 1991 study showed that female politicians who employed Hollywood makeup artists and photographers were 30% more likely to win elections.
– During the reign of Elizabeth I, there was a tax put on men's beards.
– Most lipstick contains fish scales.
– The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
– Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
– In Kentucky, it's the law that a person must take a bath once a year.
– The more attractive a woman is, the more impaired the brains of surrounding males become.
– Eating onions and garlic helps your hair grow.
– During the nylon shortages of WWII, many women used eyeliner to draw "seams" up the back of their legs.
So there you go – useless information. And no, I don't expect any of those questions to show up on the next Jeopardy! tryout, but there's no such thing as too much knowledge…


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Ok, maybe it's not that simple – there are still some things to think about to ensure the package is right for you and your housemates. Will it be fast enough? How long does the contract last? Does it come with a landline? Let's find out.
There's nothing quite like getting something for nothing. If you're the kind of person who repeatedly walks past the deli counter in Tesco just to get more than one handful of free cheese (top tip if you've never done it), then this is the package for you.
Sky's student broadband deal is on a nine-month contract to coincide with your term. During that time you'll only have to pay Sky's £15 monthly line rental.
After the nine months is up, the package will go up in price, so make sure you cancel after the eighth month. Other than line rental, the only other thing you and your housemates have to pay is £9.95 for the delivery of the router. There's no charge for set up or installation.
You need unlimited broadband. Trust us, we've been there before. You'll never see a group of people turn on each other as quickly as students in a house with no broadband because somebody just streamed House of Cards in UHD. It's brutal.
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You shall not cheat
Today I'm disclosing something which really makes OCTGN 2.0 shine: it comes with built-in anti-cheating.
It's very unfortunate that most of the major card softwares are plagued with cheating. I won't give any links, but it's not hard to find software for Apprentice, or Magic Workstation, or others; that allows you to see cards face down, or influence the games in many other ways.
And knowing that cheating is possible ruins the game, even if you don't cheat. Imagine that your opponent makes an incredible bluff and turns a lost game into a win. This should become a story told by generations of gamers. But because cheating is possible, you will always be doubtful, and the "grand master at cards" becomes a "cheater, probably".
There are three ways to avoid cheaters, amongst which two are working:
- The game uses a trusted server, which keeps all informations and checks that players aren't doing things that they shouldn't do. Commercial software, like Magic Online, uses this approach.
- The game tries to check that the player hasn't hacked his client, and is not running any cheating sofware. Unfortuneately, history teaches us that such an approach cannot work. It will always be hacked. Most of the free software out there tries to get away using this solution.
- The game uses a technology that just makes cheating impossible. The problem is that this is quite hard, and the software must be designed from the very beginning to support this. We are lucky: OCTGN 2.0 falls into this category (and feels very alone).
The trick behind this is that your client simply does not have all the information about the game. E.g. if your library is shuffled, you cannot know what the top card is without asking your opponent's client for help. So it is impossible to peek at your deck without your opponent knowing it. And so it goes for most of the other aspects of the game: e.g. you cannot exchange face down cards on the table, you cannot look at your opponent's hand, and so on.
What's really beautiful about that is that OCTGN can stay open source. You can grab the source code, modify it, and build a new client. Do whatever you want, you will never be able to build a cheating client, because the underlying protocol makes it impossible. The technology needed to achieve that is pretty complicated, and I won't go into details, otherwise I guess nobody would read this post to the end! 😉
Unfortuneately, this has some bad side effects:
- Every time you reveal a card, you must get some information from the network, which is slow. That's why you'll surely notice a small delay when cards are revealed. But OCTGN.net has been built to hide this problem as much as possible, and the result is very good.
- Because the information is distributed amongst players, it creates very hard problems when a player gets disconnected or leaves the game (information gets lost). For now, the game just ends and you cannot continue. Hopefully a better solution will be found later, but this is an open issue.
Ok, it looks like this text is long enough, so I'll stop here.
Thanks for being with me, and bye bye for now.
19 Comments on "You shall not cheat"
February 23, 2006 at 2:04 am
Looks cool! I'm curious about the actual implementation though, and how well it scales to multiplayer games.
February 23, 2006 at 8:43 am
Hmm… while I am Very happy you have taken anti-cheating seriously, not being able to reconnect to a game is a serious problem. As a world traveller with (often) shitty net connections, I get relatively frequent DCs. I hope this issue is also taken into consideration as being able to start and resume games is an option I find Highly desirable. Please keep us informed. (well I'm sure you will, or else what's this whole thing for anyway right?)
Im sure I don't need to say it but, Keep up the great work.
February 23, 2006 at 1:40 pm
It's always a good thing to make it harder for people to cheat. Doing it with success is however almost an impossible task, and I wouldn't dedicate all _too_ much time on the issue or let it be prioritized before any other game functionality. I'm not saying you do that, just venting my thoughts. It's also clear that your solution demands that it's implemented fairly early in the coding (maybe, don't know how you done it this far or which programs in the .net suit you use). This is of course always far better than coping with it after some releases and try to "inject" the anti-cheating in already written code since it would requier re-writing it.
Am I a cheater? No. But the ones who do cheat aren't that important or interesting players anyway. Players that cheat also tend to ruin their game and are likley to play less since they know the outcome of the game at the start of it. I can't even imagine how a player that cheats actualy thinks he masters the game and feels good at it. It's probably something that they don't do, which leads us to believe that they cheat of other reasons (yes, I know they cheat nevertheless but understanding what drives them can maybe help predict how much cheating is probable).
If a client has the info about the other players cards, but not own cards, wouldn't that make it possible to cheat using the info it _does_ have: Looking at the other players cards, since it has the info on them, shouldn't be an impossible task if you'd modify parts of the sourcecode or use third party crap. My point is that as long there is info it's almost always possible to cheat. I'm sure you've already thought if this and that the explanation lies in the tech-part that you didn't dare unveil. But if it isn't a 100% cheat-proof, is it then worth it, with the drawbacks of slower cardfetching and problems with the disconnects?
How slow is getting a new card when you have a low ping, say below 50? It can't be that slow, it's hardly any info at all that needs to be sent – chatting on MSN will in most cases result in more beeing sent, but I'm not sure if MSN connects directly even if I think it does.
Do you use any kind of encryptions? Wouldn't that just be enough if applied to the correct processes?
That could also work as a primitive way of solving the DC issue: Let (parts of) the game be autosaved once in a while with ie. a key that the other players client sent out.
February 23, 2006 at 4:05 pm
I still prefer the trusted server solution. It's fast and perfect for tournament play (using a third-party server). For casual play, I think eyerouge is right in that cheaters are either uncovered very early because they can't just restrain themselves from cheating 'just a bit' or they will get tired of the game really quickly.
Thinking about this issue, I came upon the idea that a server model similar to fps servers architecture could work out well. Players (guilds/clans/leagues) interested in having reliable, trusted servers, they could host a server which can host something like 10 games at the same time.
February 23, 2006 at 6:28 pm
How big is the dev team? 🙂
The more I read this blog, the more I take octogn seriously, you guys seem to think before acting, which is sometimes hard to find in new development projects. I believe opensourcing a project like that will make it more secure and better in the end.
Funny how I don't even play Magic (or any card game) but I'm really interested in the development of CCG-playing apps, especially the network and AI part (no AI planned yet, I know 😦 ). If only it wouldn't be in VB, maybe I'd lend a hand 😛
February 24, 2006 at 12:04 am
The anti-cheating thing sounds really good, but there is one thing that worries me about what you say…
Is it so that if one player leaves the game, the game stops, or did I misunderstand something? I often play multiplayer games, and since we're usually four players, we'll be twice as likely to have a disconnect as one with two. That's not terrible, since disconnects rarely happens. However, when a player is killed he/she often leaves the game, unless she is up for another round afterwards. Will this cause the game to stop? If that is how it works, then I'm not sure how easy it'll be to do a multiplayer in OCTGN 2.0.
On a different note, will it be possible to group decks? What I mean is this; I build alot of different decks (most of which never sees play ;)), some are intended for multiplayer, some for duels, some are extended decks, some are prismatic, and so on. I think it would be very practical if I could somehow easily keep these 'groups' apart. Is it possible that we might see such a feature?
Thanks for the updates Jods. They're looking good, and I'm looking forward to OCTGN 2.0. 🙂
February 25, 2006 at 12:52 pm
anti-cheating should be high priority because we want to draw a large crowd and that means the inevitable cheaters. Glad you've already found a way around the disconnect issue.
@ Anonymous, is that your nick?
February 25, 2006 at 3:27 pm
@ AkumAPrime: No, I guess my nick would be blackmamba.. but I'm not much a nick person 😛 So… you can call me BM 🙂 I've been observing this blog for a couple of weeks but now it's time I reveal myself 😛
@ jods: Seeing as how you were on the magic-project dev team, you should be familiar with how they implemented the rules. It has always been (one of) my dream to devise a generic rule system which could be edited/created by the users (even extended) for any CCG. Leaving some space in the octogn core for future rule-based gameplay would have been cool 🙂
Did you consider using a very modular core architecture (à la SharpDevelop) ? It can turn an app into a very extendable framework.
Tu dois parler français aussi si tu as travaillé sur magic-project 😛
February 27, 2006 at 8:10 am
Back from hiatus…
Jods, have you considered that your anti-cheating mechanism can potentially OPEN the game to even more abuse?
If the client is solely responsible for a player's cards, with no server governance, then couldn't a hacked client make every draw a tutor?
In my opinion, this would be a lot worse than someone seeing my cards.
Anyhew, don't mean to be the doomsayer. Keep up the good work, and hope you find a solution.
February 27, 2006 at 8:08 pm
I think we are all very curious about the actual implementation. Commit it to the cvs, for christ's sake 😛
On another note, I saw that you are indeed coding in c# (if the cvs is correct), so sorry for assuming you were doing it in vb 🙂
March 1, 2006 at 5:49 pm
Hey Jods, Do me a favor and upgrade to WordPress 2.0 so I can RSS your blogs, TY!
March 1, 2006 at 6:32 pm
There are 2 feeds for this site Akuma, one for Comments and one for topics… whats the problem??
March 2, 2006 at 8:40 am
weird… I'll retry
March 2, 2006 at 8:45 am
Yeah it works fine now… weird… ok, sorry to hijack the thread too!