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tmewett / BrogueCE

Brogue: Community Edition - a community-lead fork of the much-loved minimalist roguelike game
https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/
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Add seed hiding controlled by cmd line option #722

Open flend opened 3 weeks ago

flend commented 3 weeks ago

Adds a --hide-seed command line option that hides the seed display when playing. This is used in web-brogue where seeds are obscured to players until the end of game to avoid players trivially practising the same seed offline.

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tmewett commented 1 week ago

What's the wider rationale for this? web-brogue seed tournaments?

flend commented 1 week ago

What's the wider rationale for this? web-brogue seed tournaments?

I got feedback that an exploit that people were uncomfortable with was that you could start a random-seeded game online, check the seed, play the same seed offline a few times and then return to the online game. This is relevant if people are competing for masteries or longest streak (see recent posts on brogueforum). I don't consider it particularly important, but it felt like a general good practice to make this non-trivial to achieve.

This is part of the patch set that goes onto CE for web-brogue and I'm always keen to reduce the patch set if I can mainstream features.