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Re: My Stars! Epiphany.

Tue, 05 May 2020 02:46

ricks03

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Creator of TotalHost and Stars! utilities
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don't know if it will be useful or not...

In untangling the Spacedock bug, the amount of armor on the ship is one of the variables stored in the design block. I had hoped that I could just update the armor value (to, say 32,760). But it didn't work to change it in the .x file, because the host program apparently recalculated the value before storing it. I had to actually change the design to get it to work.

The Player block doesn't even include the score. So it seems likely that even if you can mangle a .r file, that the initial calculation is redone in the host.

On the other hand, the race block is also the only one I think with a checksum. so maybe it's not protected otherwise.

So I tried modifying the race block inside the .hst file. Interesting. When I open the .HST file, the Host Mode GUI says
#1 The Humanoids are still out --- HACKER

When I generate a turn, and look at the .M file, I get a message: "Your race definition has been tampered with. Statistics have been altered to bring you into compliance with the cosmic code. "

Hah!

That's a different result than I expected. I modify the race data block once the game is up-and-running (at least in the context of resetting the password in the .m, .hst., and .x files), in a way that I can't when trying to modify the .r file. I've never cared before about any other modification. But it can clearly tell when something changes. I wondered/hoped that might give me one of the never-identified blocks, but it didn't, so that HACKER flag is either set in the Player block, or I didn't quite get the data back correctly, and it shows up upon a recalculation fo score. *shrug*.

Rick
(If you want the script that can change bytes in the player block let me know)

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		My Stars! Epiphany. By: platon79 on Sun, 03 May 2020 09:19
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Sun, 03 May 2020 11:52
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Sun, 03 May 2020 12:18
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: magic9mushroom on Mon, 04 May 2020 01:25
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Mon, 04 May 2020 02:07
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: magic9mushroom on Mon, 04 May 2020 06:38
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: platon79 on Mon, 04 May 2020 10:39
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: raptor on Mon, 04 May 2020 10:54
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Mon, 04 May 2020 11:14
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Tue, 05 May 2020 02:46
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: platon79 on Sun, 03 May 2020 14:48
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Tue, 05 May 2020 10:24
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: magic9mushroom on Sun, 03 May 2020 13:24
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: raptor on Sun, 03 May 2020 13:58
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: raptor on Sun, 03 May 2020 15:42
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Sun, 03 May 2020 16:23
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: scottsch on Sun, 03 May 2020 22:54
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Sun, 03 May 2020 23:13
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: magic9mushroom on Tue, 05 May 2020 08:48
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Tue, 05 May 2020 10:31
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: magic9mushroom on Tue, 05 May 2020 10:53
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Tue, 05 May 2020 11:32
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Tue, 05 May 2020 13:14
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: platon79 on Sat, 09 May 2020 05:32
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: raptor on Sat, 09 May 2020 05:50
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Sat, 09 May 2020 23:13
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Sat, 09 May 2020 17:25
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: magic9mushroom on Sat, 09 May 2020 22:05
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Sat, 09 May 2020 23:09
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: magic9mushroom on Sun, 10 May 2020 01:12
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Sun, 10 May 2020 03:05
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Tue, 02 June 2020 11:55
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: magic9mushroom on Wed, 03 June 2020 03:59
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Wed, 03 June 2020 10:59
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: magic9mushroom on Wed, 03 June 2020 12:57
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Wed, 03 June 2020 13:15
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: magic9mushroom on Thu, 04 June 2020 09:18
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Thu, 04 June 2020 12:13
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: magic9mushroom on Sat, 06 June 2020 08:16
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Sat, 06 June 2020 10:29

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