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Movement in UO worked ok most of the time, and that was with clients on 56k modems and servers powered by hamster wheels. > it's because they don't care That'
by TillE 11y ago
Movement in UO worked ok most of the time, and that was with clients on 56k modems and servers powered by hamster wheels.
> it's because they don't care
That'd be nearly every company running an MMO then. You're quite right in principle: speed hacks and teleportation should be extremely easy to find by doing basic sanity checks every now and then. But in practice these things go on for months and months.
- throwaway13337 11y agoYes, it's true that they don't care. I know this from experience as one of 'they'. It's I guess oversimplified that we don't care. It's just that I, as a developer, would not be able to justify allotted time to fixing hacks that don't hurt the game much until they do.