Castle Paradox

[Gizmog1]

I agree with Orchard, I typically password my RPG Files (Unless I want to share the scripts, which happens a fair bit.) to keep anyone who just wants to read all the textboxes, or give himself a 9999 damage Shotgun, at least a little at bay. But, it isn't just security, a certain amount of it is keeping the player from looking into the Magician's Pockets. I like to see something in a game, and be able to say "Wow, I wonder how he did that.". Usually, when I go and look, it's something easy I never thought of, and I can never look at that feat with the same amount of interest again.

[Kenji Murasame]

OHR passwords don't offer much protection.

Somebody can easily crack the password (I won't say how). So I'd say if you
should password because of newbie rippers, but don't worry about it not sharing because most people who know the engine can easily get into your file no matter your password.

[Setu_Firestorm]

Honestly, I don't care if people look into my games (it's not like I'm some kind of programming genious, right?)

The only thing to be afraid of is newbie rippers and even then, you shouldn't worry. Whenever someone rips from your game and it shows up in theirs, it isn't like they get a great deal of respect for it. As a matter of fact, they tend to get pooped on, but hey! You can't say it wasn't coming.
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[Retrogamer]

Orchy, Gizmog and Shadowiii bring up some pretty significant points...

To be honest, I don't like it when others infiltrate my files and modify/spoil the game to their liking. Yeah, sure... they'll ruin the game for themself. It's their loss and I shouldn't care. But I do care... it's an invasion of my territory.

Games take a lot of time, energy, patience and dedication to make... a lot more effort than playing the damn thing (well, usually) . So what does that say when a gamer rewards himself with an "Ult1mi13!111 weppon" and breezes through all your hard work?

I frown on players who are rewarded for taking the easy way out... they've got to work for it, dammit!

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Instead of passwords, I would've liked to see a tool that scrambles and customizes .RPG files so that they were/are no longer readable in custom (and that would require a specialized version of game.exe).

I know this idea is not feasible (considering the progress of the OHRRPGCE) but it would be a nice alternative, if implemented.

Whatever... I'm done complaining.

~Retro

[Shadowiii]

I agree...spoiling the game that an author took so long to balance is very frustrating, and many people think "oh boy! file unpassworded! SOOPER HERO YAY", whereas if it were passworded they'd at least have that reminder "uh...you do know this'll ruin the game...right?"

An easy way to do this so that people can't cheat (well, unobservent people anyway) is make the file Read-only. Since 90% of people don't expect the file to be Read-Only, when they try to save their CHEATZ it won't work and they'll just play the game. Though it is easier to "undo" then a password, it isn't nearly as obvious.

It woudl be neat to have a "Lock this Game File" OHR function that made it so a game file could be opened, looked at, but nothing could be altered (ie saving was disabled, or it just would never save the changes). Of course, that's waht Read-Only does, but having it actually implimented means it would be easier to be undone.
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But enough talk, have at you!

[Kenji Murasame]

The trick would be to making RPG's into true EXE files, where the rpg data can't be extracted.

[Rpeanut]

If i had a game released, i wouldn't password it, yes indeed lots of things get ripped, but if I don't know about it I don't care, well unless that game shows up on CastleParadox in which the person will be blammed for ripping. I would also take it as a compliment that someone likes my graphics so much. But in my mentality... WIN !! WIN !!
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[Bob the Hamster]