Idea to make a gold by program

[GalaxyGuard]

what if i capture packet sent to the server when i take gold from ground in CO and sent it to server again many times ?

I want the opinion of experts in CO programming this idea

[IAmHawtness]

Doesn't work, sorry.
The server checks if the gold is actually there, when you try to pick it up.

[evanxxxm]

GalaxyGuard@
and thats why when u have lag and tries to pick up an item
it wont let u
unless the packet is actually sent through the server and checks it then returns back to ur client that u actually picked up something
thats the method to prevent duplicating items back in the days

[iliveoncaffiene]

If you had low enough of a ping to send 2 pickup packets and have them decrypted and processed on the server before that very same server runs through 1 item pickup thread then sure, you could pickup 2 items.

Disclaimer: This requires that you be running CO on the same machine as the server so that ping is below 15ms; and that the server has 0 players online so that your packets are processed at an optimum speed.

In other words: No it's not possible.

[evanxxxm]

iliveoncaffiene@
ok, the explaination doesnt make much sense to me
since we both are familiar with programmings, lets say if i have a function

if X=1
{
X=0
var++
}
else 
{
var+=0
}

and on the very same computer within the code, i call this function twice within 0.1ms
are u saying because the program call them so fast that the function will have "var=2" instead of "var=1"

anyhow, i agree on the last part that impossible for duplicate items

[iliveoncaffiene]

If both calls reference the same variable in memory, and both have the ability to run asynchronously (at the same time), then yes it's possible - but so entirely unlikely that it works as a way to explain how impossible it is to duplicate items.

[`xEnt]

I don't even think it would be possible, the items on the server would be stored in some sort of collection. once the thread runs through picking up 1 item, it would remove it from the collection before the next could checks if its in the collection. (on the floor)