Thread: .3 Second Positional Update Delay (Requesting Dev Response)

Originally Posted by Astarica

You're basically proposing a function like:
Flag player if he change of position of more than X
Except when it's the result of Landslide
OR Great Tornado
OR Teleport to ally
OR (start listing the hundreds of abilities that can move you a significant distance in the game)

Pretty much every game does check to see any unusual amount of change in position, but they can't take action solely based on that because otherwise you'd end up flagging people as cheaters for clicking on a teleporter that you forgot to add to your 'except' clause.

There are ways to intelligently exclude things while using minimal processing power. For example in titan I'm pretty sure there is no frog to lick suck me to it, so knowing that cannot possibly happen it doesn't have to be checked. Binary searches are prime examples of intelligent exclusion.

Originally Posted by azethoth

There are ways to intelligently exclude things while using minimal processing power. For example in titan I'm pretty sure there is no frog to lick suck me to it, so knowing that cannot possibly happen it doesn't have to be checked. Binary searches are prime examples of intelligent exclusion.

In that case you're suggesting a teleport check function for Titan, one for Garuda, one for Ifrit, and so on. That's even more prone to error as you're maintaining hundreds of functions that has to be updated each time a player gains a new movement aid ability. I'm sure all MMORPG do look for any unusual changes in position, but you cannot judge solely on that. There has to be a guy who actually looks at your log to determine if you're really teleporting or if it was just a false positive, and that stuff takes time and certainly cannot be done in real time.