security issue

[Rosecroix]

When you vote to continue a multiplayer game, a game is saved under your documents and settings folder with a path something like Documents and Settings\OWNERS_REAL_WINDOWS_USER\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Saves\multi. Considering the game is played peer-to-peer as I understand it, everyone also got the gameowners IP adress. Other than being incredibly spammy (you should see my doc and settings folder after just one week ), is this a security flaw? Big or small? Give your opinion.

 

[Fallblau]

I agree, it ain't the best solution, but some of Take2's other stuff uses much the same path for saved games and the like (specifically the GTA series), so I wonder if it was their mandate it be this way.

Having the option to relocate those files would be a good change.

 

[Mercade]

Regardless of whether it's done that way for other games, I find it totally unacceptable that a game spams my hard drive with a huge number of directories based on the user names of other people. Indeed, I shudder to think of the layout and contents of someone hard drive after a week of multiplaying.

And it gets worse: it is saved with the original path name of the person on his home PC. If you play a few international games, you end up with My Documents, Eigene Dateien, Mijn Documenten, looking like the United Nations on your C-drive. Maybe less of an eye sore for a nice homogenous strictly US field of particupants, but lack of consideration for international setups is a different discussion.

 

[Kolyana]

Regardless of whether it's done that way for other games, I find it totally unacceptable that a game spams my hard drive with a huge number of directories based on the user names of other people. Indeed, I shudder to think of the layout and contents of someone hard drive after a week of multiplaying.

And it gets worse: it is saved with the original path name of the person on his home PC. If you play a few international games, you end up with My Documents, Eigene Dateien, Mijn Documenten, looking like the United Nations on your C-drive. Maybe less of an eye sore for a nice homogenous strictly US field of particupants, but lack of consideration for international setups is a different discussion.

EW! That's awful and a good enough reason not to touch any MP action in Civ IV. YUCK.