What's changed since I've been gone?

[»jD«]

Originally Posted by H.A.Z.E

And what will be with the ones who payed for pbdo? I had a gold license...

As much as I'd love to keep honouring previous PBDO users, you have to understand what position this puts me in. As much as I would still love to be working on PBDO-Bot this bot isn't PBDO and is made purely by me. I think it would be unfair to expect any special treatment, especially one year later. I might do something, but I can't promise you it.

-jD

[H.A.Z.E]

Originally Posted by »jD«

As much as I'd love to keep honouring previous PBDO users, you have to understand what position this puts me in. As much as I would still love to be working on PBDO-Bot this bot isn't PBDO and is made purely by me. I think it would be unfair to expect any special treatment, especially one year later. I might do something, but I can't promise you it.

-jD

I know your priority is to get SH-IT back, we are very happy with any tool which helps us. You have my respect jD, you're doing such good thinks for us and donnt want anything back from us. You are doing very nice work, thanks for anything that you do and good luck doing everything.

[K4nec322]

Originally Posted by »jD«

As much as I'd love to keep honouring previous PBDO users, you have to understand what position this puts me in. As much as I would still love to be working on PBDO-Bot this bot isn't PBDO and is made purely by me. I think it would be unfair to expect any special treatment, especially one year later. I might do something, but I can't promise you it.

-jD

You know whats sad i believed in pbdo team so i bought in 2013 july silver+1 license and now its down

[Fegelnort]

jD since you believe in providing free tools for the epvp community, you should at least set up a Paypal where people can voluntarily donate as a way to thank you for your hard work

[karahanosman]

I hope you will do best bot

[Mericat]

welcome mate

a legend is back!

[-popcorn-]

Originally Posted by Fegelnort

jD since you believe in providing free tools for the epvp community, you should at least set up a Paypal where people can voluntarily donate as a way to thank you for your hard work

i actually thought about that but never posted it, but it is a good idea, you are not asking someone to pay for a tool, but you will get money of ppl who wants to donate

[K@mel]

Originally Posted by »jD«

Yes it will be background. The current features list looks like this:

• Box Bot - Bonus Boxes / Special Boxes / Palladium
• Ore Bot - Ores
• Alien Bot - Makes mashed potato
• Real Alien Bot - Hunts aliens
• Full Account Builder - Builds account up and manages backpage activities like Skylab building, Galaxy Gate building, Equipment manager etc.

If there is anything I have missed from this then let me know!

Some of the extra functions include:

Scripting Control
Customise the bots behaviour by defining custom actions to take when certain events happen. Unlike PBDO-Bot the scripts control EVERYTHING. The bot will ship with a default script that manages normal functions like collecting boxes, hunting aliens etc.

[...]

Sure...
More promises, more.
And at the end all of them will end like your private server, open-source SH-IT or Barney's bot to destroy ****** private servers.

Tons of promieses dont make any impression on anyone so you can stop it.

[th0rex]

I bet barneys bot is near being finished and jd's server aswell. There might be reason for not releasing them which we all don't know. But I think jd and barney are both able to implement those things. Also scripting control is not that hard. There are many scripting libs for c# and you can compile c# code on the fly which even i got to work so it should not be hard for jd.

[K@mel]

Originally Posted by omitma

I bet barneys bot is near being finished

LMAO

and jd's server aswell.

DOUBLE LMAO


As I remember Barney's bot should be released on December/January. Seems something gone wrong, but he told everything is excellent planned. Maybe he just noticed he isn't such good as he thought?

Something about jD's server. On twitter he wrote clan system and equipment was nearly done on September but in January they still weren't implemented. Seems he could only give promises and tell **** like "Bigpoint sucks and I dont even use their slow **** anymore". All we know how it finished.
Honestly his server had nothing better than others 10 private servers...


And thats why more promises from them dont make any impression on me(others?).

[melikhan]

Originally Posted by K@mel

LMAO



DOUBLE LMAO


As I remember Barney's bot should be released on December/January. Seems something gone wrong, but he told everything is excellent planned. Maybe he just noticed he isn't such good as he thought?

Something about jD's server. On twitter he wrote clan system and equipment was nearly done on September but in January they still weren't implemented. Seems he could only give promises and tell **** like "Bigpoint sucks and I dont even use their slow **** anymore". All we know how it finished.
Honestly his server had nothing better than others 10 private servers...


And thats why more promises from them dont make any impression on me(others?).

Dude, listen for a moment. Be happy with what you get, alright? This guy is working hard and puts much effort into his projects and doesn't any money and still you're shouting he can't make promises? You gotta be happy he is even doing it instead of shouting some ****.

[K@mel]

I'm not shouting. Just telling pure facts, that lately he only makes promises.

[bastianwolf]

Originally Posted by »jD«

Hey guys,

I realized just the other week that has been almost 6 months since my last post on ePvPers. I've recently had my interest in the DarkOrbit community reignited by a few of my friends getting back into the game so I thought I'd take a look at where things have gotten to.

I know the first question for a lot of you will be "Is the private server still being developed?". Over the last six months it hasn't been but I plan to change all that. Those who know me understand that I am in my final year of schooling (final semester actually, YAY!) so I am under the pump to do well at school. Due to that I have tried to stay away from anything that will "distract" me too much from my studies. In three months or so exams will be over and I will finally have the free time a lot of the people around here wish for! This means that in roughly three months the private server will be under full time development! The plans for it haven't changed at all so you can all still expect big things

Whilst I've been away I've actually been working on a few other open source projects. Those following the news may have seen my name (jduncanator) pop up in a few articles here and there so you'll know what I'm talking about. I've decided to invest my time elsewhere as I didn't agree with the direction those projects were taking!

So thats really it, the last 6 months have really been involved in the aforementioned projects along with a few other little hobbies like writing a Javascript port of Diffie Hellman (which I have a nice experience with considering its the negotiation protocol Bigpoint use to handshake their encryption keys in DarkOrbit! )

So what has changed since I've been gone? How are you all? Who's who? Any new awesome developers gotten into the DarkOrbit scene?

I'm investigating changes to the DarkOrbit code base at the moment. Thankfully my version tracker software worked flawlessly (more or less) for the last 6 months so I have a copy of every single main.swf file out there What have I found? Well, in case there IS anyone out there still developing things for DarkOrbit:

• They now pay attention to the hashes of three resources loaded from resources.xml. They are replacementCollectables.swf, box2.swf and ore_palladium.swf. All three of those are understandable as they have had anti-bot code in them for over 6 months (it was there before I left). It also houses parts of their anti-reverse protection (houses code used to decrypt the code that is used to decrypt the "obfuscation" algorithms used to encrypt game packets after they are RC4 encrypted. Yes, Bigpoint wasted a lot of time encrypting everything... and then writing thousands of lines of code decrypting it)
• This leads me onto the next change. New anti-pixelbot code. They now verify VISUALLY that the resources for bonus boxes, palladium and other collectables hasn't been modified. They now sample three to four pixels in the graphics used for the above collectables and verify they are correct. They then forward these up to the big man himself, Bigpoint in their "encrypted" event stream with event code flash.bd.crc. I'm not sure if anyone is actually using this method for pixel bots but if you are and you haven't nulled this protection, watch out!
  UPDATE: Turns out they also send a JPEG Encoded version of the "replaced" SWF file in the event stream too. Dunno what they will be using this for but they could probably use the data for further anti-bot code updates or possibly for identifying individual bots.
• And onwards it is! They also now randomly tint boxes/collectables at runtime. They tint it by a factor of 0.3 (as of 8.3.1) and the tint change range is between 0 and 16777215. Just be careful if you are using a crappy pixel find algorithm! (Or even worst a image lookup algorithm!)
  UPDATE: See post.
• Now, if they detect that the hashes of those files don't match, they will set two variables that are used in even further anti-bot code. This anti-bot code has been around for almost a year now (was already implemented in PBDO-Bot) that modifies X and Y coord values in the game. I'm not exactly sure what will happen but it is evident that they are modifying the values of X and Y sent to the server. The server could (and probably does) use this to detect a bot. THIS ONE AFFECTS BOTH PACKET AND PIXEL BOTS!

I will keep updating this as I find more stuffz but as you can see, in the 5 minutes I went looking, its pretty obvious they are still adding more and more anti-bot code. To be honest, that second and third point above is the first time I have seen them actively combat pixel bots, BE CAREFUL!

-jD

jD you're scaring me, I just finished my 2nd year studying computer science and I have no idea what most of this means.
Welcome back!

[MrSeychelles]

Welcome back ›jD‹.
Thank for yours advises and news about DO.

Mr.Seychelles

[FantaWorlde]

Holy Sh** you are back o.O
Thougt u were dead dude. Nice to see you again!
I hope you will rock the scene again!

MFG Fanta