Double Post

[Prowny]

Leeches.
I was new and didn't even know they existed, so after walking several swamps my health started to drop, slowly and painfully.
I could only watch as my poor guy walked aimlessly with nothing but his impending doom on his mind until it was too late.

[Tonkyhonk]

[tkearns]

tkburns

Frost keep it up and I'm going to make you my bitch bud..

tyler needs to tklearnz

Funny thing is i know where you live and your going to get it bud

[YarPirate]

Hey J-Lo, have you guys ever considered making the development more open source (I know the client is) or letting someone help? Asking cause I'm a Java dev myself, I like the game concept a lot, would love to be a part of it. Just askin', no hate plz.

The server isn't Java, unless they changed that in Hafen. (If I recall correctly it was coded in C++.)

The moment they open-source the server code, people will constantly be investigating it for potential exploits. As Haven is an MMO, abuse of this leads to permanent consequences that can't be fixed without a (universally hated) rollback, if even with that - rollbacks only work if the problem is found out quickly after it's caused, you can't just roll back to a month ago without having half the playerbase quit. Every change and addition they make would cause exploit problems over and over again. (In a limited fashion it already happens but problems would increase at least tenfold if people could actually look at the source.)

They should try and convert the client to C++ and server side to PHP. *Edit

After that they could run the client through a obfuscator and release. The only people dedicated enough and with the knowledge to change anything would be people with machine code knowledge. Bots would still be a problem tho. I was mainly concerned with hacks. As I am for my game.

I highly doubt they will ever release server code, that would be begging for cheaters.

[YarPirate]

Please delete my double post!