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Antiblitz: Im not the admin :-)
Im just a programmer who understands technology and why some "strange" things happen.
Like why credits card somtimes gets double charged when attempting to pay at a webshop that is experiencing a overload.

Ok here's some better code for unique names for each of the other player's names, that are still consistent.  So you can do revenge.

This makes it "impossible" for people to lan hack, or multi-account hack based on the character name, but it still lets them hack based on the money, so it just makes things more difficult.

in cd_listHouses around 4961 instead of

        $house_user_id = mysql_result( $result, $i, "user_id" );
        $character_name = mysql_result( $result, $i, "character_name" );

do something like

        $house_user_id = mysql_result( $result, $i, "user_id" );
        $character_name = mysql_result( $result, $i, "character_name" );
	$seedRand = crc32( $user_id . " ". $house_user_id . " " . $character_name);
	$character_name = cd_pickFullName( $seedRand );

and then bubble that $seedRand up into the actual random like this:

function cd_pickName( $inTableName, $seedRand = null ) {
    global $tableNamePrefix;
	
	$tableName = $tableNamePrefix . $inTableName;
	
	if ($seedRand === null) {
		// get a rand from MySQL

		$query = "SELECT FLOOR( RAND() * MAX( cumulative_count) ) FROM ".
			$tableName .";";

	} else {
		// rand seed passed in, potentially different for every player player combo.

		mt_srand($seedRand);

		$rand = floatval(mt_rand(1, 1000000)) / 1000000.0;
			
		$query = "SELECT FLOOR( $rand * MAX( cumulative_count) ) FROM ".
			$tableName .";";

	}
	$result = cd_queryDatabase( $query );
	
    $cumulativeTarget = mysql_result( $result, 0, 0 );
    ...

Hi,

I'm getting the same error as above post about windows.h. Fresh (virtual) install of Ubuntu, just installed g++, mingw, sdl, windows.h is in the mingw folder in /usr/. Any ideas?

You mean the DL for the g++ MinGW package?

Gosh, I haven't installed MinGW in an awfully long time, so I don't remember.  There are instructions here:

http://www.mingw.org/wiki/InstallationHOWTOforMinGW

I think there's an "automated package installer" thing for MinGW now that lets you check boxes for things like g++ (or maybe it's included with GCC).

Or maybe you mean linking to a DL of the client that you build?  :-)