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Re: Anti-cheating tools

Tue, 01 March 2011 18:53

XyliGUN

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magic9mushroom

Hmm...

I assume the "much more sensitive info" is locations of other races' stuff, and what their designs are?

Not that I'm a hacker, those just seem like likely ones.

It's more than sensitive, but let me keep it in secret until cleaner will be ready, so Ron will have a chance to prevent its' usage. Then I'll disclose what was that. Very Happy

magic9mushroom

As long as the tool wouldn't actually patch Stars (hacking can be useful when setting up games, and a "hacker's game" may come up someday), then I think it's a good idea.

Stars! executable isn't affected at all. No patching, hacking, etc. Cleaner will just read m file, set everything that you shouldn't see to some sort of default values, keep all other data unchanged and than write new m file, which could be safely given to cheater - it would have nothing to steal, other than he already knows and can see in Stars! itself. Verifyer is more complex, since it have to parse all the data from hst file, than read each command from x file and analyse whether it valid or not. But it will only log if there is something wrong or not and return if file verification was succesfull, so no changes to any file will be done at all.

[Updated on: Tue, 01 March 2011 19:08]

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		Anti-cheating tools By: XyliGUN on Mon, 28 February 2011 09:26
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: m.a@stars on Mon, 28 February 2011 10:37
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: m.a@stars on Mon, 28 February 2011 10:39
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: XyliGUN on Tue, 01 March 2011 18:20
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: m.a@stars on Thu, 03 March 2011 11:27
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: XyliGUN on Tue, 01 March 2011 18:16
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: Eagle of Fire on Mon, 28 February 2011 14:14
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: gible on Mon, 28 February 2011 14:31
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: magic9mushroom on Mon, 28 February 2011 15:53
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: XyliGUN on Tue, 01 March 2011 18:53
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: Eagle of Fire on Tue, 01 March 2011 20:18
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: XyliGUN on Wed, 02 March 2011 03:50
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: magic9mushroom on Wed, 02 March 2011 05:14
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: XyliGUN on Wed, 02 March 2011 07:52
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: magic9mushroom on Wed, 02 March 2011 14:32
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: nmid on Wed, 02 March 2011 18:10
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: magic9mushroom on Wed, 02 March 2011 20:29
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: gible on Wed, 02 March 2011 21:10
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: m.a@stars on Wed, 02 March 2011 22:54
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: nmid on Wed, 02 March 2011 23:05
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: m.a@stars on Thu, 03 March 2011 11:21
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: Eagle of Fire on Wed, 02 March 2011 15:23
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: magic9mushroom on Thu, 03 March 2011 04:17
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: Eagle of Fire on Thu, 03 March 2011 07:11
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: XyliGUN on Thu, 03 March 2011 08:38
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: m.a@stars on Thu, 03 March 2011 11:23
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: BlueTurbit on Thu, 03 March 2011 11:06
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: XyliGUN on Thu, 03 March 2011 17:45
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: Eagle of Fire on Thu, 03 March 2011 21:04
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: magic9mushroom on Thu, 03 March 2011 21:22
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: m.a@stars on Fri, 04 March 2011 23:00
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: m.a@stars on Fri, 04 March 2011 23:05
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: Eagle of Fire on Thu, 03 March 2011 22:50
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: magic9mushroom on Fri, 04 March 2011 02:43
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: XyliGUN on Fri, 04 March 2011 07:32
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: m.a@stars on Fri, 04 March 2011 23:01
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: Eagle of Fire on Sat, 05 March 2011 00:20
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: magic9mushroom on Sat, 05 March 2011 04:07
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: m.a@stars on Sat, 05 March 2011 05:04
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: magic9mushroom on Sat, 05 March 2011 05:17
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: nmid on Sat, 05 March 2011 07:50
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: XyliGUN on Sat, 05 March 2011 08:01
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: nmid on Sat, 05 March 2011 08:19
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: Ron on Sun, 06 March 2011 00:16
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: gible on Sun, 06 March 2011 00:50
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: XyliGUN on Sun, 06 March 2011 18:23
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: gible on Sun, 06 March 2011 21:39
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: magic9mushroom on Sun, 06 March 2011 21:56
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: gible on Mon, 07 March 2011 00:14
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: magic9mushroom on Mon, 07 March 2011 00:29
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: craebild on Mon, 07 March 2011 13:01
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: nmid on Mon, 07 March 2011 20:25
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: m.a@stars on Sun, 06 March 2011 05:21
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: XyliGUN on Sun, 06 March 2011 05:33
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: XyliGUN on Sun, 06 March 2011 18:21
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: m.a@stars on Sun, 06 March 2011 05:13
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: XyliGUN on Sun, 06 March 2011 05:29
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: m.a@stars on Sun, 06 March 2011 09:34
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: Eagle of Fire on Sat, 05 March 2011 15:45
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: magic9mushroom on Sat, 05 March 2011 18:34
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: Eagle of Fire on Sat, 05 March 2011 21:51
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: nmid on Sat, 05 March 2011 21:58
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: Eagle of Fire on Sun, 06 March 2011 14:39
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: magic9mushroom on Sun, 06 March 2011 15:07
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: craebild on Sun, 06 March 2011 15:17
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: m.a@stars on Sun, 06 March 2011 15:26
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: Eagle of Fire on Mon, 07 March 2011 21:36
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: XyliGUN on Tue, 08 March 2011 08:40
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: m.a@stars on Tue, 08 March 2011 11:14
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: XyliGUN on Tue, 08 March 2011 14:57
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: LittleEddie on Sat, 30 April 2011 16:45
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: nmid on Sat, 30 April 2011 16:59
		Re: Anti-cheating tools By: LittleEddie on Sat, 30 April 2011 18:52

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