alt Hacker NewsWouldn't it be possible or relevant to periodically, electronically sign the game state, to prevent cheating? Or with some proof of work?
I am starting to think that cheat are just too hard to fight against, I am making a small, cheap online FPS, and I would let users trust each other instead, and hunt cheaters themselves, or maybe use AI like valve is doing. I would not bother have a anti cheat software.
Also players would have to manage and administrate their servers themselves.
Players would require to have a cellphone number attached, have a reputation score given by other players, maybe give an id or some other strong auth method, manual verification with like a photograph, like it's done for some dating apps. Players would have to play like 10 hours before they could play competitive.
I am confident hardcore players would be motivated to do all those things to make sure there are fewer cheaters.
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At a high level, you can just simulate the game without cheats, sign that, and then do the cheats separately.
> and I would let users trust each other instead, and hunt cheaters themselves
If you've ever played a decent amount of basically any online game you'd know that players make cheating accusations CONSTANTLY based on very little evidence. And then there's also the social aspect of just reporting players you don't like to get them banned
In such a system you'd get way more false positives than any kind of anti-cheat