The gameplay definitely leads to more than most other RTS games on the market, as it seems to be a crossbreed of Age of Mythology and Empire Earth, with a few added features tossed in. The idea of national borders plays a significant role in the game, and while there can be alot to do at once, you don't have to keep yourself entirely maxed out on all traits to be successful. I'm sure that I read somewhere that the game can be won through a variety of different techniques beyond just killing of the enemy and conquering the enemy though there is now the added benefit of once conquering an enemy city, it becomes your own instead of being destroyed. I still think I'll need a few more weeks ( after RIT finals ) before I'll be able to say if it will beat out AOE II for the title, but overall it looks to offer a great combination for the RTS genre.
I think the encyption of data within other forms of communication while still preserving both forms of information is refered to as steganography. Though I've really had no reason I've played with hiding files like address books inside of gifs and adding them to websites. The images often just look as though they have a low quality to them, white static over the picture. Actually that static is your encrypted file.
The amount of time it would take to brute force each and every picture with an immense variety of encryption algorithms would take forever, however as others have said, just knowing who is talking to who is exreamly valuable, and we just may have the resources for that.
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The gameplay definitely leads to more than most other RTS games on the market, as it seems to be a crossbreed of Age of Mythology and Empire Earth, with a few added features tossed in. The idea of national borders plays a significant role in the game, and while there can be alot to do at once, you don't have to keep yourself entirely maxed out on all traits to be successful. I'm sure that I read somewhere that the game can be won through a variety of different techniques beyond just killing of the enemy and conquering the enemy though there is now the added benefit of once conquering an enemy city, it becomes your own instead of being destroyed. I still think I'll need a few more weeks ( after RIT finals ) before I'll be able to say if it will beat out AOE II for the title, but overall it looks to offer a great combination for the RTS genre.
I think the encyption of data within other forms of communication while still preserving both forms of information is refered to as steganography. Though I've really had no reason I've played with hiding files like address books inside of gifs and adding them to websites. The images often just look as though they have a low quality to them, white static over the picture. Actually that static is your encrypted file.
The amount of time it would take to brute force each and every picture with an immense variety of encryption algorithms would take forever, however as others have said, just knowing who is talking to who is exreamly valuable, and we just may have the resources for that.