Detect if running on a rooted device?

[Tomires]

There has been a topic on keeping track of time a while back that you might find interesting

Add a utc_now() function?

If I were making a game that depends on time (either some casual clicker stuff or a mechanic that provides periodic rewards to a single-player game), I would probably utilise NTP servers with a fallback to device time in case the user doesn’t have an internet connection. I assume this would stop people who aren’t tech-savvy from cheating the system. I have also devised a pretty neat trick that might be applicable to this scenario - how about letting the player reap rewards either way, but when …

Unless it’s a multiplayer game by default, I don’t think it’s wise to require the player to be connected to the internet at all times, as a player I find this practice highly annoying (mobile games shouldn’t expect the user to be connected by default as they might play in environments without a dependable mobile connection and PC games with their evil DRM methods are a beast of their own). A fallback option would be welcome, although it is far from unbreakable (then again, what is… I guess theoretically the player can spin up a raspberry and run their own time server, but who would do that just to cheat a game ).

I guess the question that this all comes down to is ‘Would the player’s actions have a negative effect on other players /if it is an online game/ or would it affect the revenue by considerable margin /if it’s a freemium title with in-app purchases/?’