Why would anyone even use Sub space when we have much more secure communications availalbe on the internet?

It's more a problem for casual (not just manual) users playing against scripted players. SS is not used to coordinate bots as much as it is to report current status of things. Like while cashing, many cashing scripts output the MCIC and results to SS to keep people up to date. There's a wide gap between heavy bot users and casually scripted players. Even cruncher here has admitted to using cashing scripts.



Already done. My bot authenticates via corp message like mombot does, and accepts commands from authenticated users via private hail (if enabled, and if the command has the access level set to enable it). My saveme can now work entirely over private message, and my pgridder now responds entirely over private hail too, eliminating SS flood.

I've even added a "comsec" mode so that, when enabled, the bot no longer reports sector numbers and other critical bits of information via SS (altho I haven't fixed all commands yet).

So yes, a lot of us are already adapting to this problem. That only widens the gap further.

Play in a large corp sometime, see how it works out.

Not according to some people, they seem to think that anything the server will allow is perfectly legal regardless of weather the game designer intended it to be that way or not. Just becasue I can move a pawn sideways on a chess board doesn't make it a legal move. I shouldn't expect the game board to enfore the rules, because it is just a piece of wood and can't be expected to do that.

I was refering more to human use than script use, but scripts can easily use simple encription routines to scramble the data.

And I was referring more to human use than script use, too. Again, try playing on a large corp sometime.

Chess analogy fails because each move is perfectly visible to all players. If you try an illegal move in a turny, you'll be penalized. If you try it w/ other players, they'll call you on it. If you try it in TW, nobody else sees it, thus the game has to be able to enforce it or the burden falls on the sysop.

If the sysop sets a rule that something isn't allowed, then that's the way it is. But it's also going to be up to that sysop to enforce the rule. Good luck on that.

So you use a diversion of some sort. You can still cheat at Chess.

EDIT: Monopoly would be a better example. I used to ALWAYS win, I wonder how I did that?

LOL. Only if the other party isn't paying attention, which proves my point. Your actions are only completely visible to 2 parties in TW: The game server and the sysop. If the game server can't stop it, then the sysop has to. Good luck there.



Taking extra money from the bank would be akin to using tedit to give your corp extra cash. That would be cheating in both worlds. Faulty analogies are faulty.

Probably as much fun as doing a 30 year amortization without a calculator.

I might like to know more about the stunnel. I have a new terrabyte server for the office, as soon as I get everything transfered over, and the old server formated I'll have a dedicated TWGS machine.

Finite math is pretty easy. You'll be able to do that in your first year. The stuff that always gave me headaches was trying to integrate over multiple axes. Simple stuff was do-able, but figuring the volume of complex 3d sine waves... not so much. Strangely, I actually found harmonics and Fourier series transforms to be pretty easy in concept. Of course by the time I got into that stuff, we had mathcad to help with the mundane crap.



Read up on TLS and dual key encryption. Stunnel is based on the openSSL standard.

I was always a big fan of the Laplace Transform.

Partial differential equations was definitely one of my most difficult courses in college. Most difficult goes to Quantum Physics with a chinese professor who barely spoke english! Professor Kwak.

You can only do that if you are the banker. I still found ways to cheat when I wasn't the banker. The point is that it is still cheating even though I didn't get caught.

Hahaha, been there. Not sure what it is about complex topics, but it seems they're always taught by people w/o a solid grasp of English.

Except in monopoly, the rules are predefined by the game. TW doesn't have that. Faulty analogies are faulty. In TW, the rules are defined by the server and the sysop, so the moral impetus falls there.