Easy Hacking Loophole

[Ahriman]

Just a few days ago I saw a dermorian running at a very quick speed. It was NOT lag, I could see his animation clearly, walking about 5 times my speed. No stuttering.
I hope I won't get in trouble for this, but I tested a program called "Speedgear" on PlaneShift for about 3 minutes. I successfully speedhacked the game without any difficulty. Of course, I didn't continue doing that!

There should be a hacking resistance in PS. I don't know how to implement this, but it would be useful. Programs such as SpeedGear, CheatEngine, etc. should be banned.

[Drey]

old news tbh

and your sig: wtf.

[Raleigh]

     Phew, when I readed this I thought that it was about another duping exploit. 

It's unavoidable... to make an exception to my personal rule regarding ther Complaint Department for the 2nd time.

http://www.thenoobcomic.com/daily/strip088.html 

     If you didn't get it, what I mean in a less than serious way is that it is entirely impossible to make a game 100% cheat-proof, but it is possible to deal with the cheaters properly.

[Drey]

     Phew, when I readed this I thought that it was about another duping exploit. 

It's unavoidable... to make an exception to my personal rule regarding ther Complaint Department for the 2nd time.

http://www.thenoobcomic.com/daily/strip088.html 

     If you didn't get it, what I mean in a less than serious way is that it is entirely impossible to make a game 100% cheat-proof, but it is possible to deal with the cheaters properly.

please don't use tab like that.

[Shamax]

No system is perfect but some are much better than others.

For example, there was a problem with cheaters using SpeedGear and CheatEngine in WoW for slowing down the buff duration, so the buffs lasted longer. This has been fixed by moving the buffs on the server side. If you visit SpeedGear and CheatEngine forums, you'll see a bunch of cheaters whining about how useless those cheat programs are with WoW now.

Of course, Blizzard constantly bans accounts that use bots for power-leveling and so on. With over 7 million subscribers, you can expect that there will be a lot of cheaters in a game like World of Warcraft, so making SpeedGear and CheatEngine users whine about how useless those cheat programs are shows a lot.

Move as many critical things to the server-side as possible to avoid rampant cheating.

[Jeraphon]

What kind of loser do you have to be to cheat in a game that has no winner?

[mbr1110]

What kind of loser do you have to be to cheat in a game that has no winner?

Amen!!!

[lorac]

To Cheat in Planeshift is like ..........well you get the point
It is like cheeting your self out an experiance of saying you did it your self with out help of any kind
It is sad to think this game is too hard for some that they have to cheet or exploit the system
shows the Intel of some people
Besides what does one gain from doing such?
a bad reputation in the community
"Thats something i always want to get" /me being sarcastic mildly

[ramlambmoo]

There are already measures in place to prevent 'speed cheating' such as running faster than is allowed, etc.  I'm not sure whether these options are currently turned on in the server and being monitored by somebody, but its definately in the code.  If you have the name or a screenshot of who was doing this you could contact a high level GM about it.

What kind of loser do you have to be to cheat in a game that has no winner?

Granted, none of us would think to do this, but that doesn't solve the problem.  Its a fact of online games that people will try to cheat.

[Akana]

What kind of loser do you have to be to cheat in a game that has no winner?

I'd agree, But then again, Some cheaters do it because they are jelous of others, If someone had better armour, they would cheat to get the same without spending time to get it properly.

[lorac]

Very well put
when you exploit a game /world like this
your actually losing not winning
I too will keep an eye out for the nascar players hehe
will make a note of the flyers

[drah]

Could Paladin be tweaked to catch this in any way?

I know it apparently was designed to (among other things) catch unusually rapid increases in height (to catch jump-velocity exploits) and had just assumed it would catch this type of cheating too.

I'm guessing SpeedGear tells Planeshift that more 'ticks' have passed than actually have, effectively speeding everything up in the client??

Maybe there's a way for the client to compare apparent 'ticks' with the local system clock to detect if the game is being deceived in some way.

I might be wrong though, I'm just guessing how it works.

[Lanarel]

Palladin does catch high velocities. No idea if someone watches those reports though.

[Xillix Queen of Fools]

Nothing like cheating at solitaire to make you feel a part of the world of people.

[Vengeance]

*massively multiplayer* solitaire!!!  :-)

Yes, PaladinJr does monitor these things and logs them, but nothing is looking at the logging right now.  One day, those people will start getting auto-banned and there will be much weeping and gnashing of teeth, I predict.