Timeline for Loading settings files better?
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| Mar 27, 2017 at 14:41 | comment | added | Philipp | @Gigas Why are you afraid of people "casually hacking" their config files? A human-readable config file has many advantages. It allows advanced gamers to tweak their config further than your options menu allows and it allows your community to find workarounds for technical problems until you get around patching them (for example when a user managed to screw up their options in a way which prevent them from accessing the options menu). It's also easier for you as a developer, because you have a much easier time experimenting with setting without having to add a UI for them. | |
| Mar 14, 2017 at 21:59 | comment | added | user93747 | Thanks for the answer, I think that the best method for me would be to load default settings and ask the user if they wanted to reset the settings file. As for parsing, I think using a binary format would be a good idea as it prevents "casual hacking" and Java has the ability to serialise objects anyway. | |
| Mar 14, 2017 at 21:56 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Mar 14, 2017 at 1:30 | history | answered | Theraot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |