Is it possible to change settings in a started game?

[Ruatha]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
The game has protections against such illegal hacking.

According to Swedish law there is nothing illegal in trying to alter or ipsofacto altering my own savegamefile. And altough I'm not an expert on US law I find it hard to belive it would be any criminal activity there too.

Morally it might be another thing, and yes, if I tried to alter the setting from "Can only view own score" to "Can view all scores" in a game I was playing with others that would be bad.

But in this case that is not so, but the other way.

This is the first PBW game I ever hosted. And this setting allows the players to see who is weakest and attack them.
This was a mistake when I created the game.

I previusly played VGA planets where there were many utilities, among other password crack utilitys. These came in handy when you had forgotten your password. I played VGA and later Winplanets for many years and never had any suspicion that anyone cheated. I don't think ceating is anything that is wanted by the players that play these kind of games. The cheaters in my experiance are those who wants immidate satisfaction and therefore play games that happen in real-time, ie RTS or FPS games, not PBEM or PBW where you play for months and years and get to know those you play with.

Call me naive if you want but this is what I think.