Interesting

[Tardiss]

Hacking? (http://www.team-maia.com/hateowned/)

Thanks,

Tardiss

[BlueAdept]

They probably used the emulator for that.

[Tardiss]

Not according to monkly business (http://pub147.ezboard.com/fmonklybusiness43508frm1.showMessage?topicID=42779 .topic) forums.

Thanks

[Fatal]

Thats a live server. No doubt about it. One of the MacroQuest plug ins will allow that.. bad news for the macroquest folks. This tard is going to get em all ganked.

[BlueAdept]

I dont know if all of it is true, I do know of a way to get around flag and level reqirements for a zone.

Even though I havent done it for some time, I was able to get a lvl 1 char into PoTranquility (you need lvl 46). No memory hacking or anything like that so I know that part is possible.

As for the other stuff, might be possible. People have hacked the GM commands before, but I thought the flag was moved serverside along with needing a special client. The loot corpse from anywhere in the zone is also possible. So is the bank anywhere too. Those were old memory hacks that I guess they updated. What I didnt know is that there is a hack to allow someone who isnt authorized to loot it get the stuff.

[Zaphod]

First,
This person was obviously using MQ. The who output with the GM's is definitely from MQ's superwho.

And it looks like the hacks they were using will be going away:
http://eqlive.station.sony.com/community/dev_view.jsp?id=59786

I really wish stupid script kiddies hadn't got such easy access to powerful hacks...

Enjoy,
Zaphod (dohpaZ)

[BlueAdept]

Im sorry but some of those cheats shouldnt have existed at all. Im glad that sony is nailing them. Any cheat that deprives someone else of items(ie looting of a corpse from a distance), causes problems to EQ's economy (dupes or massive plat influx), or allows someone to cause damage to someone elses account, should be removed.

I have a feeling that they will try to kill MQ now. Even though it can be used for exploitation, it does have usefullness (even though I dont use it). It sure would have made all those damn tradeskills a lot easier.

Hopefully they wont screw with ShowEQ.

PS, I know someone is going to call me a hypocrite for my first statement because SEQ could be considered a cheat that deprives someone else of items, since SEQ lets you see the named before others can find them. Well maybe I am, but I dont see it that way. If a named spawn is up, it does give me an advantage, but Im not directly KSing someone elses spawn that they have killed. Besides, 99.99% of the named that I would be interested in, would need a raid force.

[Stogar]

There was a month or so when precompiled binaries and modified versions of MQ were put out. The devs at MQ changed it but obviously this is a prime example of why NOT to release things precompiled.

[S_B_R]

Originally posted by Stogar
There was a month or so when precompiled binaries and modified versions of MQ were put out. The devs at MQ changed it but obviously this is a prime example of why NOT to release things precompiled.

Actually in the begning MQ was officially distributed in both Binary and Source forms. I personally stop using it before they switched to the Source only distribution.

MacroQuest is a very nice tool. Unfotunately it is easily exploited. It would be great to see a macroing language as useful as MQ built into future MMO's (or even retro-fitted into existing MMO's). Of course they'd need to limit the exploit potential, but that would be easier done if it was an in-game tool, and people would be less likely to develope a similar tool outside of the game.

hey I can dream can't I ;)

[Stogar]

Oh I wasn't talking about official stuff. I was talking about a particular version that someone had released. I just didn't want to post names, the guy was banned from FH and MQ boards.

[S_B_R]

I see... Well consider that a mini MQ history lesson ;)