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Is there any way of creating a game by script which is Rock, Paper, Scissors?

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Originally posted by EnglandBoyForLife.
Is there any way of creating a game by script which is Rock, Paper, Scissors?

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This is quite easy to do and would be successful i think. if no one has done it by tommorow i will have a go at it

It isn't so easy at all though...

Not if you want to take in account the very easy way of cheating with this.

Threads about this exist, which also began with "it's dead easy". The cheating problems with implementing this kind of games is also discussed there.

hmm yes the cheating idea...hmmm how about a lttle message blocker til both users have done !RPS <rock,paper or sissors>
Then it sends them
if its possible

How is the game to be played, between 2 users or between the user and the computer?
I have a solution for either. The solution lies server side
For single player, pulse whether the user selected r,p or s and make the server select a random item as well, apply the rules and voila.
For 2 players, its more complicated. I have an idea but its long. Long story short, pulse what both users have selected to the server and tell it to decide who won

If you dont know who pulsed it, you dont know who wins. No cheating
So, what do you think?

Nice idea, but isn't it take too much of the computer, John Anderton?
Because you need to make, in the "single player mode", the computer "choose" one opition, without a sequence pré-defined and, on the "2 player mode", you gonna need to have the 2 comp. syncronized as I could see...

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Originally posted by elektra
hmm yes the cheating idea...hmmm how about a lttle message blocker til both users have done !RPS <rock,paper or sissors>
Then it sends them
if its possible

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no, in whatever method you come up with like this, a message with the choice of either one of you needs to be send to the other. Upon which this other guy can easly cheat as he already knows what has been choosen...

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Originally posted by John Anderton
How is the game to be played, between 2 users or between the user and the computer?
I have a solution for either. The solution lies server side

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Which is indeed a solution to the cheating problem.

The use of a 3rd party which first recieves both choices before sending the result.

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anyways, all this was already discussed in older threads though. This is actually just repeating

how about storing the recived command in a variable until the local user sends theirs or visa versa

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Originally posted by Baggins
how about storing the recived command in a variable until the local user sends theirs or visa versa

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Not possible without the commad being printed in the chat window first

However, in my ChangeMe! script, when the user receives a request to change the dp (when approve is on), their message isn't shown in the chat window until the user has clicked the yes or no option on the msgbox. Just a though to how it could be done

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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff
However, in my ChangeMe! script, when the user receives a request to change the dp (when approve is on), their message isn't shown in the chat window until the user has clicked the yes or no option on the msgbox. Just a though to how it could be done

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No, that is just the same.... at one point or the other the choice of he who started it first will be known by the other, before that other makes his choice.

In your example, it is not the message which will hold the choice, it is the "request to change the dp" which will already hold the choice and thus seen by the other.