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What is Sharded Worlds

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Handbook of Research on Serious Games as Educational, Business and Research Tools
Are independent instances of the game-world running on its own. Sharding also reduces the complexity of distributed game state coordination. They offer a game developer solution to MMOG scalability problem, as hundreds of thousands of simultaneous players can't be at the same time in the same precise location. A solution to maintain a pleasant game experience to all was to split players by their geographic location, creating copies of the game world known as shards. Boosting network performance and reducing packet delay. The disadvantage is that players cannot physically interact or usually even communicate across 'shards'.
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Security Issues in Massively Multiplayer Online Games
Rui Costa Cardoso (Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Beira Interior, Portugal) and Abel Gomes (Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Beira Interior, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0149-9.ch016
Abstract
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) have been steadily growing in interest over the past decade. Their economic value turns them into one of the main targets of malware and cheating in Internet. This chapter presents and discusses security issues in MMOG environments. The study starts with a preliminary characterization of MMOGs, highlighting their main features. Afterwards, the authors present the security approaches that are applicable to MMOGs, exposing the implications of security breaches and the need for better protection mechanisms. Next, the chapter presents current safety measures and solutions to tackle specific security issues. Finally, security trends that can be relevant in the future are described.
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