January 2016
Beginner
528 pages
12h 29m
English
book
MMOs from the Outside In: The Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games of Psychology, Law, Government, and Real Life
by Richard A. Bartle
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CHAPTER 3
On Law
Real-Life API—Confuse
CLawyer::Confuse
int Confuse(Cjurisdiction* pJuris, real rConf)
- pJuris: Specifies the jurisdiction (NULL for none)
- rConf: Specifies the amount of confusion to add
Remarks
Increases the lawyer’s confusion value by rConf. Common reasons include the following:
- Rights of players: Freedom of speech, freedom to play.
- Intellectual property: UCC, copyright, mad patents.
- Virtual property: Effects on nerfs, rollbacks, bans.
- Commodification: RMT, tax.
- Individuality: Second Life is not World of Warcraft.
Return
Random value r such that 0 ≤ r < 1.
MMO Security
MMOs have the same basic security problems that every game or online service has, such as denial of service, database injections, phishing, backdoors, viruses, Trojans, and regular ...
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