The Sign In Log

Posted by santosj on October 18, 2005

I have already gave a few reasons why the staff cannot ban on just the Sign In log alone. The reason why is that people can ‘fake’ their IP address or use a proxy to use the web site.

I once wrote a script that allowed a person to change the template on the site by IP address and soon ran in the event where it would change the template for everyone on the same network. The better solution is to use cookies and I eventually did, taking an IP at face value isn’t a good idea.

That is not to say that the Sign In log isn’t any good at all, it does tell you when the person signed in and signed out. That is helpful, but can’t be used for every case.

The level of cheaters and those who would bring the game down in a flaming death is more than what I would suspect for a 100 or so player base game. Damn, a lot of enemies were made, some where. The negative one being the most worse. In most other languages the ‘> 0′ works like it should, but for some reason the type casting on PHP sucks major ass. I almost wish PHP made you define the type, but it is quite helpful when you want to add a integer to a string, that is always a bundle of joy in C and other low level languages. I should reiterate and say that is only for dynamic situations. It only a function call to cast a integer to a string and a string to an integer.

The point is, is that Cheaters suck!

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