Duping

[t0lkien]

Originally Posted by Furinex [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If I could find the post I would, but I read a post from someone in another thread, that the EQ code is an elegant code meant for a time period of greater mental fortitude and honor. Honor being the keyword. Being as this was an innocent time period, these things probably weren't thought of. Wish I could remember who said it so I could quote them directly, for it was a brilliant statement that holds real weight.

Here you go:

Originally Posted by t0lkien [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

EQ was designed in a more innocent time [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Originally Posted by Frieza_Prexus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Not as clumsy or random as a modern MMO; an elegant code for a more civilized age.

By the way, the *only* way to code an item exchange is to create it in the receiver's inventory before deleting it from the giver's in order to avoid the item being lost altogether in these very instances. That is rigourous code. The problem, of course, is it creates the opportunity for duping. Individual item numbers would have fixed that, but this being the first game of its kind I guess no-one foresaw the prospect of server-wide duping. Individual item tagging is standard practice now. I'm reasonably certain item exchanges are coded in a slightly different way too (a type of database escrow).

I know the same issue could happen on death - I died on Live once and when the server came up I was at my spawn point fully clothed with a full inventory. I went back to my camp and there was a fully clothed corpse, including my epic (so I had to delete one - that was the most difficult delete I ever did). I didn't want the second version left around anywhere incase there were checks. I profited in a small way because non-lore items were lootable so I took them. I felt bad about doing even that, so whatever I couldn't use was given away or destroyed.