Is it possible to have a Vanilla server ?

Elsayal · 2019-11-05 20:14:39

Hi,

I was wondering if it's still possible to get a "vanilla" server, like World of warcraft online did some week ago

Meaning, the game as it was on first release on steam.

How much work will it takes ? Could it be done on the "beta" steam version kind of like ? I don't know. I hope this question is not too dumb x)

Thanks !

JackTreehorn · 2019-11-05 20:49:28

Jason addressed this in a post a little while ago -

There's a little problem, first proposed by Turing in the 1930s....

A piece of computer code cannot tell what its actually running on. This is why DRM is a hopeless folly.

Corollary: a piece of computer code on one end of a wire can not be certain about the nature of the computer code on the other end of the wire. It's possible to do a lot of things. You can guarantee that no one else can read a message. You can verify identity as far as ensuring that the remote party has access to some secret. But you can't get proof about what software the remote party is running. Bits on the wire are bits on the wire.

I.e., it is impossible for the server to block modded clients.

Now, it is possible for the server to send less information to all clients, so that modded clients have less "special" stuff to show. There would be a performance and quality cost to doing this, though, and the improvement would be minor. I.e., even if we sent you less of the map in one go, your client could still "remember" the parts of the off-screen map that it already has seen and show those to you.

One last avenue for improvement here is to send less information about other off-screen players to all clients. There's no performance or quality hit if I do this, and it would eliminate the offscreen-spying advantage for modded clients. They'd still have a more comprehensive view of the map, though...

Coconut Fruit · 2019-11-05 22:42:52

JackThreehorn, OP asked for something else. He wants the game in state like it was when it was released on steam. Without all tool shit things and other bad stuff that were implemented to current day.

It won't happen tho. Making another server with different game version would split players, we don't have big playerbase to do this.

DestinyCall · 2019-11-05 22:54:54

It says something that returning to what the game was like when it was released on Steam over a year ago would be a significant improvement over the current state of the game.

That's just sad. Where is this game headed?

wondible · 2019-11-06 00:59:21

There is an official client/server set for when the game launched before steam.

https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=6250

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