You will notice their first forums
http://nwng.proboard...i?board=general are now suspended thanks to a number of moles who reported the content (though not after leaking it to a few people, myself included) However the admin is now much more careful and not opening advertising it. However he's also dumb enough to make him easy to find with google again.
http://nwng.46.forum....php?noportal=1
Forumer's TOS also has rules against harassment, I urge everyone to report this forum. Cutting off their man means of recruitment and communication.
Otherwise, there's been a lot of grumble across a lot of PWs that they are 'hacking' in characters with uber stats (generally 99 STR, 250 everything else) and uber items to make a quick kill-run and in some cases, dry-loot people before logging off to prevent item restoration.
This isn't really true, this can be attained by simply knowing how to edit your own NWN files- characters for servers are generated client side and thus this exploit requires absolutely no 'hacking' skills whatsoever. I have their guide they used after it was sent to an admin of one of the worlds they commonly targeted and will share it with any interested server admins. The basic of it is they are 'tricking' NWN by editing game files to think starter stats are 255, and starter gear is a +80 sword of noob killing.
However the big thing is it's really easy to guard against. Because all they are doing is generating an 'uber' character all you need to do is put in a script to catch them at 0 EXP- at creation.
(disclaimer, I am not a scriper, I am simply relaying what was told to me by someone who does know their stuff. I am assuming this ahead is correct.)
Have a hook in your onenter (or is there an onlogin? either way) script that checks the EXP level of a character. If they enter at 0, strip them of all items and then hand them their starter gear. Most servers already do this for custom starter gear anyway.
Next, check their base stats. If a stat is above 22, (adjust this number depending on what your subraces get to and/or any other stat changing. 22 is just my normal fallback number.) teleport the PC to a 1x1 area they can't leave.
Now if the script fired and they came back clean, give them 1 EXP so they don't trigger the script again.
I am, again, assuming it's all that simple. I have tasked a friend in actually writing that script so I can, instead of telling people how to do it, just give them they script and say 'here you go.'
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Oh and all of the above is moot if you have 'enforce legal characters' checked, but I'm 99% sure most servers don't.
Modifié par Totems and Teaparties, 13 mars 2011 - 06:20 .
