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Old Jan 9th, 2006, 3:11 AM   #3
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It depends on what kind of game it is. In first-person shooters (FPS) things are dealt with differently than with role-playing games (RPG).
You could take a look at how other games do it, for FPS look at Counter-strike, ask how VAC and Cheating Death works.
For RPG take a look at World of Warcraft that hass Warden.
VAC, Cheating Death and Warden are all pretty thoroughly tested.
There are a lot of other games, which may have similar or even better methods. Ask a gaming forum.

One last bit of advice, on FPS don't take the response time that it takes to kill a person, this was tried in Counter-strike, and random swings and clicks on the button resulted in innocent bannings.
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