[Inverness]

Uh, yes it would lag alot.

Stop being so paranoid about people who are trying to hack variables. There is no perfect way to make everything secure and you need to live with that. Saving to file on server is a good method. Another is the base64 encryption.

If you keep the system logged it should not be difficult to find out if anyone is causing a problem.

I'm really getting tired of people who make all these off-the-chart scripts to prevent hacking before their server is even far enough on the map for anyone to want to hack in the first place.

Spend less time worrying about hacking and more time developing.