SC2Mapster

Uhm yea. At least when you're alone you don't have to preload. I've attached my map, if you would like to see for yourself. 1) Start the map 2) write "-save" and it'll save some string ("HIHO") into a new bank. 3) Restart the map 4) write "-load" and it'll load some string and output it (you'll see it's "HIHO"). No preloading. So either I'm getting something horribly wrong here or it works at least for 1 player. PS: I'm European, so you might see some PARAM sh*t instead of the actual string.

Hm so what happens if you don't preload a bank and then try to access information from it? Does it desync in Multiplayer games? Till now I've only used banks on my own - and you don't seem to need preloading for 1-player maps, which is kind of logical.

Quote from SCMapper: > I know you said aside from it, but it's that bad, the lack of a built-in security features for banks.

You need the exact name to open a bank. That's enough to secure it. Usually you'd name your bank something like "WoSCharacterStore". Of course this can be manipulated by any other map or directly by the user. To prevent the user to open the bank and manipulate it we'll have to do the same we did in Wc3 with save codes. We need to encrypt the stored data before writing it into the bank. That's not very hard, as long as you don't get access to the map script (but Blizz said something about map protection so I hope that won't be the case). To prevent other maps opening the bank and manipulating or deleting the content we'll have to somehow change the name of the bank without making it static. Easily done by name hashing. When, for example, I play the map and save my character, the bank wouldn't be called "WoSCharacterStore" but instead "WoSCharacterStore-s3rius". Same goes for loading the bank. Well, of course such a simple "hash" won't stop anyone yet. But if you take my name and run it through a hasing algorythm to change it to something like "56375" then suddenly your bank is named "WoSCharacterStore-56375". Well, good luck on opening this one without knowing it's exact name D: The only real problem I see is that a player could just copy his bank and paste it again in-case he screws up, but I think there should be some way to add security measures for that.. but you'd need to create several banks then... Or we'd have to use Quantum-bit technology :P