SinglePlayer()?

[Ring-Ding]

Hey, I was wondering if there is some way to detect through triggers if the game is singleplayer or not? I need to do this to prevent cheating in my rpg so that people can't just greedisgood, get a bunch of gold, save their hero, and play online.

Also, i'm a returning member of hiveworkshop, but I remember it being called wc3 campaigns. What happened?

 

[zach_kirov]

to detect number of players u can use the following trigger:

INTEGER COMPARISON
if (game - number of players) equal to 1
then do anything

To prevent ppl to use greedisgood, i usually use the following trigger inside my map

EVENT
every 5 seconds

CONDITION
player golds greater than 5000

ACTIONS
game - defeat player 1 with the text : Are you opening a bank? Store so much golds for what?

haha!

 

[wd40bomber7]

Post was found to be erroneous so I removed it.

 

[Wolverabid]

wd40bomber7: That trigger won't work: Warcraft III will not detect cheatcodes (except to implement them) when entered as chat messages.

[off-topic] ~ Thread moved from Map Development to WEHZ.

 

[madcat2]

I don't think you can use cheat codes in custom games.

 

[Aschy]

I don't think you can use cheat codes in custom games.

Yes you can use cheat codes in custom games just not on lan or bnet.

@Ring-Ding: If I where you I would just use the Interger comparison that zach_kirov said and then either disable your save/load trigger or make the player lose.

 

[wd40bomber7]

wd40bomber7: That trigger won't work: Warcraft III will not detect cheatcodes (except to implement them) when entered as chat messages.

[off-topic] ~ Thread moved from Map Development to WEHZ.

I could have sworn it did. I thought I checked a while back. Let me see...

Edit: Hmm, you were correct. I could have sworn... Oh will.

 

[busterkomo]

bj_isSinglePlayer

Use it as a boolean return value.

 

[Da)sniper]

That or you can do it the GUI way and do

• Events:
• Player 1 red chats Greedisgood
• Conditions:
• Actions:
• Unit - Kill triggering units hero
• game - defeat player 1 red with message DONT USE CHEATS!!

Even though hvo-busterkomo's way is faster and less triggers, not many people here know how to use jass and where to put it.

 

[wd40bomber7]

That or you can do it the GUI way and do

• Events:
• Player 1 red chats Greedisgood
• Conditions:
• Actions:
• Unit - Kill triggering units hero
• game - defeat player 1 red with message DONT USE CHEATS!!

Even though hvo-busterkomo's way is faster and less triggers, not many people here know how to use jass and where to put it.

I suggested exactly the same thing in the above, but I was corrected that cheats are undetectable as chat commands.

 

[kile_so]

There is an simple solution.......at the start of the game count how many players are playing (it's done with a trigger) and then if the number is 1 disable save or just give the player a defeat.

 

[busterkomo]

Or, just do it the undisputed best way(see above).

 

[PurgeandFire]

to detect number of players u can use the following trigger:

INTEGER COMPARISON
if (game - number of players) equal to 1
then do anything

To prevent ppl to use greedisgood, i usually use the following trigger inside my map

EVENT
every 5 seconds

CONDITION
player golds greater than 5000

ACTIONS
game - defeat player 1 with the text : Are you opening a bank? Store so much golds for what?

haha!

They can still use it. And I've gone up to 70,000 gold in an RPG without cheats. (Just about ~2,300 kills)

 

[Da)sniper]

The way I did it doesn't detct the cheat it detects what they say no? Then it should ban them from the game. Anyways if you want you could try and make a GUI trigger decting how many people are in the game itself and kick the kid if its only 1 w/ or w/o computers. It'd probably need functions for computer detection and possibly GUI possibly but probably JASS for the player detection aswell

 

[GloryBlade]

The way I did it doesn't detct the cheat it detects what they say no? Then it should ban them from the game. Anyways if you want you could try and make a GUI trigger decting how many people are in the game itself and kick the kid if its only 1 w/ or w/o computers. It'd probably need functions for computer detection and possibly GUI possibly but probably JASS for the player detection aswell

I would prob'ly never play your game if you kicked me for trying to play it single player.

I dont' know how save codes work- but i suggest simply deactivating the save system if the person plays it single player- i can't host games so if no one is hosting your game i will still want to be able to play it! and if i can't play it on my own, even though i can't save, i'm not going to bother letting it take up space 'til someone hosts it =/

 

[Bloody_Turds]

• Untitled Trigger 004
  • Events
    • Player - Neutral Passive's Current gold becomes Greater than or equal to 1.00
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Trigger - Turn off Save/Load Trigger <gen>

i think that works unless code dosnt give gold to passive which means youl have to use a blank player.

 

[Da)sniper]

I would prob'ly never play your game if you kicked me for trying to play it single player.

I dont' know how save codes work- but i suggest simply deactivating the save system if the person plays it single player- i can't host games so if no one is hosting your game i will still want to be able to play it! and if i can't play it on my own, even though i can't save, i'm not going to bother letting it take up space 'til someone hosts it =/

Go ahead haven't you noticed most RPG's DO KICK U OUT if ur on single? Why so you can't cheat!! What I say to people that dont play multi and only single is get some internet and play multiplayer!!!

 

[Dr Super Good]

To detect if a game is single player or not, simply count the number of human players.

There obviously has to be more than 1 for the game to be multiplayer.

Also kicking people out if its Single Player is a "noob" way of handling the problem. The more mature way (that all good rpgs do) is to simply disable the save system. Also most RPGs that do that get ignored by this site as they can not be tested easilly.