Excellent job banning the auto blockers.
Only problem is my situation. A long while ago when I was an admin I figured out people were auto blocking and made friends with one of the creators. I took what he made and shared it with devilize (he paid for the server at the time) so we could figure out a detection and ban the users. We did have a detection and made quite a long list of users (some still play today). I was not alloud to ban them because chadz was working on an offcial detection.
So after no bans were issued to anyone that I listed, I took a long break from the game. When I came back I did not know devil did'nt have the server anymore. One of the hospitallers asked me if I could still detect auto blockers. I told him I did not know and would check. I downloaded it from the link in my message and as far as I could tell I couldnt get it to work. Or maybe I was doing it wrong. Anyways I gave up trying and deleted it. I told him that was the only one I knew of and it did not work so I couldnt help . I can't remember how long ago that was, but it was some time ago. I did not know that there was a real working detection because I was gone and the first ban wave missed a lot of them.
Anyways I listed the messages to prove my case and im sure you can check the log and see exactly when I used it. It was only used when we were trying to figure out a detection. I will hope your log supports my claim.
Sent to: Devilize on: May 09, 2011, 19:53:13 » (this was me giving a copy of the script to devil so he could get it to chadz or whoeever was working on a detection)
Here is a link to the early release of auto blocker 2.0
Send it to the guy who was working on the fix because he is holding this version until the fix comes out so he can work around it again. Tell him to keep it quite that I can get these updates early.
It has an on off toggle in the f keys (F7 and F8 I think)and a auto detect toggle to make it look more natural if you need to change your block direction if your being watched. Like I was suspecting xxxxxxxxx of doing.
Also he confirmed gold hacking through packet editing but it was out of his expertise.
« Sent to: Devilize on: May 10, 2011, 14:54:48 »
1. They released version 2.0 today and he stated it is harder to reverse engineer. He also said most of the detection methods we were using are obsolete. You can read all this on the XXXX forums.
Sent may 16 2011 17:02:03
2. We REALLY need to figure out whats going on with this auto blocker. It makes me sick to watch these guys use it and think they are leet. It took every ounce of my being to not ban someone for using it the other night. He was so obvious it was painful. I held back because you said you wanted to do the bans for it because it is your server and I did not know if there really is or will be a detection for it coming soon.
Sent to devilize may 23, 2011 21:20:15 (me discouraged because none of the na guys got the ban stick)
So chadz claimed he banned 40 people today. He will not release the names.
Can you get the names from him so we can compare our list. Or know who we can remove so we can continue banning these my old friends.
« Sent to: chadz on: May 23, 2011, 21:20:15 » (my plea to chadz before I took my break)
Hello, I was one of the people to bring this hack into the light after suspecting it almost 4 months ago. You guys did a good job detecting it and banning the hackers. However it is only 1 of many other version of this auto blocker. There are still people using it on the servers today.
You need to post a list of those banned players to drive the nail into the wood and let them know you mean business. Seeing the names of the banned players will effect the remaining cheaters psychologically. You will drive the majority of them to stop using the cheats you will never detect.
You need to take a serious stand and make the post. It will have a two sided effect. One I already mentioned about making the rest of the cheaters stop cheating, and two make the non cheaters feel more secure that they are being protected. Nobody wants to feel like they are donating money to a cheat friendly mod. That is the message you are currently sending to the people.
Take it for what its worth.
