Race Season Ten Prizes, Patch 1.3.0k and Cheating

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We don't want to hear "I was only running the tool for QOL improvements".

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HoneyBadGerMan wrote:

I'm not going to re post my other epic post out of the desync thread again. It's the first post on page 32 if you're interested.
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/889669/page/32
Basically I point out that there's a big difference between trusting the client and giving the client authority. In addition to an in depth discussion of what desync is, and what causes it, I discuss several possible implementations which might simultaneously resolve desync by giving the client authority without trust, and still maintain a relatively high level of cheat prevention. Next.

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Mugiwara20 wrote:

So as I see it, you are telling 3912 people, to buy new computers in order to play your game, as you don't want to put an option to disable particles into the game ;)

Anyway, the warning was nice for those who used it.

But fight the serious problem here, not those "cheaters"

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I_NO wrote:

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redicboos wrote:

how about Corrupted/Loading-zone timer for farm fragments? i believe is linked on reddit and plenty of alpha members were using it..

That's not a hard thing to do even I do that everyone does that you simply count the frame time. It's how the system is because it must load the area's for the corrupted zones and such.

That's not even an exploit that's just being clever.

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Halcion wrote:

I'm sure you had some good ideas in your post, but I stopped reading once I saw "encrypt part of the client." If any part of your strategy revolves around trying to keep secret some code that is executing on a user's machine, then the plan will never work, because that's just not possible.

(As an aside, the level of encryption you're talking about, and just-in-time server-requested decryption, would be incredibly taxing. There is no way the game could do this and still remain playable.)