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  1. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    1 minute ago, Saxtus said:

    The mission text could fall under database (if we consider it as flat-file database) or file in general.

    As it's been said above, you can't outsmart it.

    those are also not being >executed so the statement still somewhat holds.

    but as ALSO was said above, that really wasn't my main point.

  2. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    35 minutes ago, Lily Rain said:

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    The EULA means everything. The executable code, database and files. They are all included.

     

    Terms of Service are often made comprehensive to protect a product/service. You can't outsmart it.

    i wouldn't say so in this point - executable code, executable databases and executable files vs

    all databases, all files and just executable code

     

    it seems quite obvious but idk if it is. maybe it is. anyway.

    not really my main point

  3. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    4 hours ago, Saxtus said:

    Then why you violate the EULA you agreed upon before entering the game and don't use the steam browser instead?

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    i don't. i've only used the advanced launcher (which is explicitly allowed - which you tried to misrepresent in previous threads iirc)

     

    and this was definitely not point of the discussion. it's about "gaining an unfair advantage". being forbidden in the eula does in fact not mean it is because you get an unfair advantage. e.g. racist/offensive symbols (arguably) don't do that either.

     

    and since he claimed it has the same result, your response/counterargument does not hold, since it isn't related.

     

    also the eula is ambigous. does it mean executable databases and files? :^) if so, since they are not executed (they are being interpreted/parsed, comparable to html documents), this isn't a technical violation.

     

    that being said, the latter does not make it not a bannable offense - and also doesnt mean that isn't an advantage in a way.

     

    i'm quite neutral, i couldn't care less if people use them or if they were forbidden. just trying to make objective statements.

     

    Merged.

     

    32 minutes ago, Saxtus said:

    The EULA is very clear on that and is not subject to interpretation or have any exclusions on what files you can edit and what not.

     

    EULA is above anything else that has been said anywhere else.

    not necessarily true, as stated above.

     

    also it really isn't, there are also official statements made by the devs. (e.g. about advanced launcher) - and, you know, things like the law xd

     

    sry for doublepost, missed mergetime.

  7. Posted

    1 hour ago, -Dan- said:

    And please no "other f2p games" arguments, because I can't think of other games where f2p players can only use like 5 different weapons while all the other are either armas or jt store 

    well thats not my issue

     

    also i think jt is quite fair + most armas weapons are reskins or presets - and iirc they said they'd look into introducing the armas weapons ingame

    still no reason why they'd just give out a perm - an unlock, sure, like the valentines one, but why would they go overboard suddenly lol

  8. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    3 hours ago, -Dan- said:

    Yeah but I don't think that the celebrations in-game are related in any way to the reborn of Jesus either

    i dont think bunnies and eggs are too related to jesus either

     

    i guess they fuck a lot and get born?

    all about the symbolism, sure

    especially lindt chocolate bunnies

     

    why do you paint eggs though

     

    why would you expect a 4 slot car or a permanent weapon from a simple event tho

    like when has this been the case ever

    which other f2p game throws that kinda stuff after you

  11. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    On 4/3/2019 at 4:57 PM, APB2012 said:

    Could you maybe post updates to this thread too please?  Not all of us are a fan of censorship Social media.  I dont do twitter personally, but I have enjoyed this mmorpg for years, and want to know whats coming, but not at the cost of giving twitter my info to sell.

    don't even want to go there - but what in your opinion is really getting censored there?

     

    btt: actually excited about the rework of fallen earth too, i've always wanted to try but felt like it was quite dead anyway... maybe this'll change.

  14. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    On 4/4/2019 at 11:04 AM, NotZombieBiscuit said:

    That's kinda racist.

    that implies that russians are a race. hence that you believe that races are a thing. thus, you actually are a racist. :^)

    On 4/4/2019 at 11:10 AM, VanilleKeks said:

    Russian is not a race, so it's not racist. It is however a xenophobic statement. Tune in next time on "Learning with Keks".

    someone was quicker but not with the allegations. fuck.

  15. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    not a new idea, this has been brought up tremendous amounts on the old forums - what's next, zombies, motorcycles, helicopters, planes, horses, housing or pets? xd

     

    jk

     

    adding a skateboard as an orange mod seems kinda cool and fun but you couldnt expect like tony hawk level stunts... plus it might cause issues since you could probably reach spots you shouldn't be able to.

     

    making anything a safezone on the map seems quite unreasonable, since right now everything outside a mission is a safezone anyway except for n/p 5s and ramraiders. if you made it a safezone and e.g. made ppl lose n/p 5 or lose their collected money, it'd effectively make the map smaller, since you couldnt use it during most activities. 

    plus, if people chilled there and skated around, they might also occupy the slots in a district so matchmaking could get worse.

    guess this would get solved by phasing.

     

    maybe skating should be a social only thing. in a few years - sadly there are other priorities surrounding the basegame and adding features to social... seems a bit off right now.

     

    however, i bet there are some difficulties to implementing skateboarding. have you ever seen that in any other open world game (except dedicated skating games lul)? not even gta has them... idk what that would be but... seems like something to think about.

    (i do remember them in an mmorpg - archeage, lol. but i guess mmorpgs are a bit different lul)

     

    even if it was in districts and even an orange mod, i guess it'd take quite some more development than your avaerage new content - and it wouldnt add too much

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  16. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    4 hours ago, SirVilla said:

    We also had that, or it was only for some of them to kill even more than now,
    I'll be sheltered, sorry then.
    then you disces that removing all restrictions for everyone to enter any server is a good idea? reducing the amount of money you earn or increasing it according to server uploads or download it? I do not know, I doubt that someone enters a gold server anyway, a bronze filled with gold is more fun to see that.

    dethreating is always a thing - right now you don't get discouraged.

    yeah, reducing money gained was a thing before - but imo not drastic enough.

     

    idk, having boundaries that can get circumvented by dethreating is not solving much. adding incentives to not dethreat/giving people, who would otherwise dethreat an alternative sounds more reasonable.

    or preventing dethreating as a whole by e.g. matchmaking by using max threat ever gained - maybe with deterioration over time, while keeping the actual threat as it is. (not ideal, obviously. sounds like one solution though)

     

    but no - the action to take right now is sit back and relax while they introduce phasing first and seeing if it's already solved then.

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  18. Posted

    4 minutes ago, SirVilla said:

    1: gold server: only for gold and silver.
    2: silver server: only for silver and bronze.
    3: Bronze server: only for bronzes and greens.
    4: green server: initiation or tutoring for new players
    I think this would not make people so elitist.
    but to be giving a bad suggestion, but I think that would solve the current problem,
    If you are gold, you go to a gold server to play against your rivals do not abuse, of course the servers are always empty, it is not difficult to fill them

    worse idea than what g1 implemented by introducing even more limits (downwards)

     

    threat segregation was actually tested (gold+below in gold, silver+below in silver, bronze+below in bronze) by g1 - and they lost quite an amount of players back then.

     

    reasonable solutions would be reducing money gain and removing weapon role gain if you are in a lower district - so you could play with your friends, if need be.

     

    however, they are working on server-wide matchmaking through phasing which will also improve matchmaking by a margin

  20. Posted

    1 hour ago, AlishaAzure said:

     

    I wanted to explain this but i was to much sleepy, anyway.. the thing is i would like to see something similar to SWAT, not only armored.. like real helmets with special armored glass protection in front of the character face and stuff like that, example > GH-Armor-Riot-Helmet-TAC2.png?fit=500,453&ssl=1

    okay, that's one thing we don't have.

    i mean, if you take a look at e.g. wildlands, there is a bazillion different militaresque gear out there - and it get's super specific. riot helmets sound kinda cool but beyond that, i couldn't think of much that we don't already have a similar option to.

    maybe a riot shield on the back, like the skateboards/radios? xdxd

  21. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    14 hours ago, Memes said:

    https://www.cloudflare.com/ddos/

    EDIT: @MattScott can you tell us what kind of DDOS it is?

    they've been using cloudflare for years

    (not sure if they use spectrum tho)

    45 minutes ago, Yood said:

     70 % do not want to buy premium because of unstable servers in the first place .

    interesting arbitary number.

    80% proceed to hit their forehead with the palm of their hands when reading certain posts on the forums.

    23 hours ago, Sadira said:

    You've been told, multiple times, in your thread about the EU even, that it's being worked on. You could even look at the blog post that was posted over a week ago with the progress of it.

    Some people just can't read or process and comprehend what they are reading

     

    (hey he even misspelled the name DESPITE the forums actually providing name suggestions once you type @)

  22. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    2 hours ago, JunoSuzuki said:

    Can't we just find out who and where these Ddos guys are? Is there rly no wae? I know it is far from easy but i just wanna know if possible.

    ye, just do it.

    this isn't just some kid running LOIC on his gaming pc. those would be caught within hours. do you think they wouldn't act if there was an easy/good solution?

     

    afaik they were actually working with fbi (think matt dropped that, tiggs back in the days too)

     

    it's probably impossible - currently - since anonymization with various networks is way too safe, easy and proof, they might just use crypto to rent a booter, those use slaves all over the world that they acquired one way or the other and they'd use some anonymous hosting for their control servers/clients, have multiple layers...

    certain organizations might be able to shutdown parts of a botnet - but determining who is behind all that and who their clients are even...

    if you just find the owners of the botnet (that might live in different countries too) you don't really gain anything. even if those were stopped, there are different botnets that could be used instead. it's most likely near impossible to see who they did transactions with and get the culprit who "hired" them.

     

    i guess it's much like a contract killer - you don't find the guy who hired them by catching the contract killer but by inspecting people who held grudges etc - for a videogame that seems quite impossible, especially when they banned masses of people. and then there are those that just do it for fun.

     

    the only real way to deal with this is more mitigation and filtering.

     

    steam has their network opened to developers now and could be used to obfuscate their server addresses and thus deal with the DDoS to a degree.

     

    maybe they'll implement that, would actually be pretty good

  24. Posted

    6 hours ago, MartinPL said:

    They promised they would give us a new anti-cheat to replace BattlEye. They did, very shortly after taking over as new owners.

    They did not, they added BattlEye.

    We had no client-sided AC before. (Except PunkBuster years ago) People cried for it - and BattlEye is the best in the industry - albeit intrusive - yet people still whine.

     

    They promised to replace FF since it was flawed. They disabled FF so far. Okay-ish move if you ask me. (Though I was never affected by false-positives or other unjustified manual bans)

    They said they are working on an in-house server-sided one.

    6 hours ago, MartinPL said:

    They promised they would complete the Engine Upgrade project. They are close to finishing it - and it took them five times less time than Reloaded Productions.

    They promised they would produce new content for the game. They gave us a new weapon and also a legendary variant of it, two gamemodes, one of them entirely unique, while still being limited by the old and cluttered engine, and also a community event that got about 200 people posting in a Discord channel dedicated to it.

     

    Please start looking at what is actually happening with the game instead of keeping to your pessimistic outlook.

    this though.

    RP probably didn't really work on it and when the EU will release is still in the stars - but they make actual, quite quick and big progress.

    The new weapon wasn't something too major - but they probably only used it to get a process defined and tested - which is very good.

    The gamemodes were nice albeit a bit clusterfucky.

    The ARG was quite impressive.

     

    What made me very happy was that they are working on balancing and changes - while admitting mistakes and acting upon them. (Though CSG was a bit overnerfed again :/)

    Also, they pretty much fixed shotgun hitreg.

     

    The lag isn't great but really, they are making progress and obviously care.

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