Thread: Fairness Check
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Monolith

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May 2, 2006, 06:39 PM
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Fairness Check

There seem to be an increasing number of utilities that allow users peek further into and tweak with the game. This has caused me to think how can we keep things fair between players, for those who wish to keep things fair. Surely new utilities enhance innovation among the community, and can bring out great new ideas, but there are still cases where people would probably like to keep things as reasonably fair as possible. Think of JDC, duels in general, tournaments, or players who just want a fair game. Imagine a utility (if it doesn't exist already) that allows a player to know exactly when and where a carrot or powerup respawns, or a utility that shows the positions of all other players in the level. How could other players or a server detect the use of utilities such as these? Or how could servers choose to limit the abilities of these utilities among players?
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