tbh its somewhat trivial to add support for zip's weak password-based encryption. I can enable it by default and get it to assume the password is 'thisispublic' if you want, if you want a different password, I'm sure you can set an appropriately named cvar in your default.cfg (inside the same zip if you want - its per-file rather than per zip, so just make sure your default.cfg isn't encrypted). of course, if they someone finds a zip that they can only read one file of, they're probably going to read it looking for a password - especially if its a cfg.
it really won't get you anything of course (hence the choice of default password), but when so much of game design appears to be social engineering it hardly seems to matter.
besides, features are features!
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Re: Pk3 archives protected by password in FTEQW
I'm protecting the need to use those assets, otherwise I couldn't have the permission to use them, which makes them priceless!frag.machine wrote:I remember some security expert saying many time ago that the ammount of money/time/effort you need to invest in security varies accordingly the value of what you are trying to protect. What is the ammount of money represented by the artwork assets involved in your money ? US$100 ? US$1k ? More ? Less ?
Yep, but again, I'm not the boss right now!frag.machine wrote:Remember, you are an indie developer. Be pragmatic. You are not swimming in money.
The implicit cost of these artwork assets imposed by your arstist are UNREASONABLE.
Ahh..good old days!frag.machine wrote:Heck, I pirated Doom and Quake myself (I was a student without money back then).
Totally agree. I'd like to launch my game with a very low price. And make a lot of assets free, together with a detailed documentationfrag.machine wrote:The best approach I ever saw so far was to shame the pirates. Make your game so good and cheap to buy that (most) people will feel bad for robbing you.
It's not 100% efficient, but you'd be surprised how effective it can be. Most people is willing to pay for a good game.
I'm not 100% sure you got my point.frag.machine wrote:TL;DR: Stop spending effort in a fruitless battle against piracy.
Whoa that'd be great! But, is it needed to be set in .cfg? Couldn't be set directly hardcoded?Spike wrote:tbh its somewhat trivial to add support for zip's weak password-based encryption. I can enable it by default and get it to assume the password is 'thisispublic' if you want, if you want a different password, I'm sure you can set an appropriately named cvar in your default.cfg
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