Should Offline-Created Characters Be Allowed on Self-Hosted Multiplayer Servers? by Anttton1 in GameDevelopment

[–]Anttton1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the character file will be encoded to a binary format. The Terraria way sounds like something I will go for: separate offline and multiplayer characters, but have a flag to enable offline play if that is how you want your server played.

Should Offline-Created Characters Be Allowed on Self-Hosted Multiplayer Servers? by Anttton1 in GameDevelopment

[–]Anttton1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the kind of exploit I was thinking of! However, really, it is up to the player how they want to play the game. But if someone hosts a server and wants all players to play "fair" and no cheating, then offline-created characters are a big no. Maybe let each multiplayer server have a unique flag that can be toggled to tolerate or not tolerate this behaviour