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Originally Posted by sunder702
Wow! impressive. here are my qualifications
I'm a high school dropout, recovering alcoholic pot smoker. lol! funny but true.
I have all the confidance in the world that you'd be able to figure out the rest.
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LOL, I hope so because I am still trying to figure out why we where digging for a opcode client side in order to change the point given per level server side. My guess would be that this is the type of thing that would be stored in the database somewhere, especially since so much of the game logic is actually stored procedures and triggers rather than part of an executable. But from what I have gathered from this thread this particular thing is actually stored it the game/server executable, which seems odd to me.
lilpro is a great hacker (classical sense and not a cracker I hope ;-P ) but admits to not being that into administration. I am the other side of the coin - so things that code warriors like you and lilpro take for granted and don't even mention are not even a part of my universe. Just like if I told you the that the echo in the VoIP conversation was obviously a impedance mismatch at the media gateway, anyone with real VoIP provider experience would do a :facepalm: and think DUH I will get right on that. However, someone that is not familiar with it would need to be told that the Media Gateway is a separate piece of equipment from the VoIP server that interfaces with the phone company via a PRI line over a T-1 and that the line resistance the phone company is providing is not that same that the T-1 port is setup to accept. So you need to get the Phone Company to come out so they can be set to be the same to eliminate the echo.
So you are right, I could probably figure it out if I had to, but I have other priorities and the pServer is always the last one as it is just something to do when I am not working. I would love it if you could hold my hand a bit more and get me through with what exactly I am suppose to do once I have the opcode to the ps_game.exe and how. Also, unless the code you found changes for each person (which would really make my head spin, since shouldn't all the server stuff be the same) could you provide the opcodes you found so everyone does not have to duplicate the efforts you already performed for us.
It is this sharing of knowledge and using our different non-overlapping talents that will move the pServer community for Shaiya forward. Too many people are keeping things to themselves - this is counter to everything that has made the computer community what exists today. I know that lilpro made a commitment to a server group, and I respect that, but I think a few hackers around here have forgotten the hacker ethic. Especially #1 and #2
- Access to computers—and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works—should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative!
- All information should be free.
- Mistrust authority—promote decentralization.
- Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not criteria such as degrees, age, race, sex, or position.
- You can create art and beauty on a computer.
- Computers can change your life for the better.
Regardless of if we are IT Professionals or High School Dropouts ( I dropped out and then went back) the pServer community's very existence is in one form or another promoting all of the points above. Yet I still can't find a clear explanation on how to do many things - even though we know they are doable and have been figured out because others are doing it on their pServers.
I am just saying - share the love man, share the love. We could make things much better here if people would post what they learned, because none of us would be doing this if Poly, ZeroSignal, lilprohacker, et all did not post tutorials and share what they figured out.
Ok, I guess I am done with my rant, and Yes - I probably could have figured it out on my own if I had directed my energy to doing it rather than ranting. That being said, geeks have always been bad at documenting and that is normal and acceptable, but when people start intentionally holding back on the details of what they have figured out they only hurt the community as a whole.