Druid Elemental

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Way to take my hypothetical a few miles too far.

I would recommend you read up on the game before turning to statements like that.

Here's one nugget of information - skills.txt has columns that are nearly the same, except some start with srv, and others with clt. One of them controls the client side (graphics*), and the other server side (effect). Change (or just plainly remove) either for clt and srv - and watch the effects.

Even easier - download some mod - start it - then play in a multiplayer game as long as you're not the server (ie game starter on tcp/ip) - watch the effects. Of note would be a mod which just removes cast delays - then spam MB's to your hearts content - which do nothing - except the one casted after the 2 sec timer - which timer is started on the server.


* It can include a lot of things. Think about Diablo I - there characters were controlled client-side - but because of rampant abuse this was taken to server-side in II. There's many other anti-cheat features like this - many of which have been added after 1.0, and some sloppily - producing these anomalies.