CheatProofing Dead Reckoned Multiplayer Games (Extended Abstract)

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CheatProofing Dead Reckoned Multiplayer Games (Extended Abstract)Page 1CheatProofingDead Reckoned Multiplayer Games(Extended Abstract)Eric Cronin Burton Filstrup Sugih JaminElectrical Engineering and Computer Science DepartmentUniversity of MichiganAnn Arbor MI 481092122{ecroninbfilstrujamin}@eecs.umich .eduKeywords multiplayer games cheatproof protocolspeertopeer architecturesI. INTRODUCTIONTHE multiplayer game (MPG) market is segmentedinto a handful of readily identifiable genres themost popular being firstperson shooters realtime strategy games and roleplaying games. Firstperson shooters (FPS) such as Quake 11] HalfLife 17] and UnrealTournament 9] are fastpaced conflicts between up tothirty heavily armed players. Players in realtime strategy (RTS) games like Command & Conquer 19] StarCraft 8] and Age of Empires 18] or roleplaying game(RPG) such as Diablo II 7] command tens or hundredsof units in battle against up to seven other players. Persistent virtual worlds such as Ultima Online 2] Everquest 12] and Lineage 14] encompass hundreds ofthousands of players at a time (typically served by multiple servers).Cheating has always been a problem in computergames and when prizes are involved can become a contractual issue for the game service provider. Here weexamine a cheat where players lie about their networklatency (and therefore the amount of time they have toreact to their opponents) to see into the future and stayThis research is supported in part by the NSF CAREER AwardANI9734145 the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists andEngineers (PECASE) 1998 the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ResearchFellowship 2001 and by the United Kingdom Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Grant no. GR/S03577/01and by equipment grants from Sun Microsystems Inc. and HP/DigitalEquipment Corp. Part of this work was completed when Sugih Jaminwas visiting the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.ahead of other participants in a game. We focus on ...

 

 

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