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Re: My Stars! Epiphany.

Sat, 09 May 2020 05:32

platon79

Chief Warrant Officer 3

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Registered: February 2004
Location: Norway

Hi again. I have now done some testing, and I am sad to report, it seems my original dream is dead. Here is my findings.
It seems to me the checksum you were talking about is in the FileFooterBlock. I therefore made a lot of different r1-files in the stars race wizard, where the only change between files were the growth rate, which I set at all the different values.
Based on these files, I was able to see the pattern in the checksum for this one file. (Another file I tried would give another pattern, I did not try to find out how to generate the checksum at this point, as that would be quite another monster.)
So, after finding out this pattern, Based on reading in the default 19% race with 0 points left, I then wrote two race files via the starsapi project, one with 18% and one with 20% growth rate, and modifying the checksum in the FileFooterBlock to match the pattern while writing the files.
Both of these files are now accepted as non-corrupted files in Stars, they both open fine in the stars race wizard, the 18% race showing 65 points left and the 20% race showing -125 points left.
When I start a new game with the 18% race, everything is fine. Playing a turn does not trigger any hacker flag or anything.
When I start a new game with the 20% race, the race seems to be REPLACED with the default Humanoid-race, with a random name.
So apparently there IS a check at startup checking for negative points (at least for human players), that just replaces the race with humanoids if below zero points left.

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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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