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Suggestion [Plugin] Anti-Xray

Ellron23

Legacy Supporter 3
Joined
Sep 28, 2012
Location
Umbra, California
The current anti x-ray plugin can be described nicely, as a troll. It shows fake ores to those of us not x-raying. It gives me chunk errors every 30 seconds or so. And every 5 minutes, will put me in a 30 second x-ray. Irony?! Yes. The anti-x-ray mod x-rays me! It shows fake ores on the sides of walls. And worst of all, it shows fake ores when you're not even mining!

I understand x-raying is a large problem on all servers, so I propose a new plugin. Anti X-Ray - AntiXRay hides ores from players by turning them into stone until they have been exposed, thus making it impossible for any client side hacks to detect them, as their location is not sent to the client.

If that mod doesn't work, I propose X-Ray detector mods, instead of X-Ray stopping mods.
The current x-ray plugin situation is, in my opinion, very poor.

PS - I can't research the current plugin because the "/pl" command doesn't work, and I can't find a list of the plugins anywhere on the website.[DOUBLEPOST=1349245351,1349243915][/DOUBLEPOST]Examples
 

kevinlive

Legacy Supporter 2
Joined
Jul 10, 2011
Location
Norway, Vardø
We used that version earlier, but there are two cons with it. Caving is sad, and people can still x-ray the ores that pops up around you.

Needless to say, this version works better :p
 

Davros_

Web Developer
Legacy Supporter 9
Joined
May 20, 2012
Location
Earth
The current anti x-ray plugin can be described nicely, as a troll. It shows fake ores to those of us not x-raying. It gives me chunk errors every 30 seconds or so. And every 5 minutes, will put me in a 30 second x-ray. Irony?! Yes. The anti-x-ray mod x-rays me! It shows fake ores on the sides of walls. And worst of all, it shows fake ores when you're not even mining!


As Kevinlive said, we used the version you mentioned earlier. The current version is much better for both the players and the server as it doesn't hide ores in caves and it hides things like buried chests from x-rayers.

PS - I can't research the current plugin because the "/pl" command doesn't work, and I can't find a list of the plugins anywhere on the website.


This is disabled for security reasons.
 

Ellron23

Legacy Supporter 3
Joined
Sep 28, 2012
Location
Umbra, California
I understand everything you're saying. But if this is indeed, the best X-Ray stoppper, then I propose we stop using it, and use an X-Ray detector. This plugin DRASTICALLY takes away from my enjoyment of this server. It makes me X-ray! Perhaps a plugin that detects farm rates. Or maybe one that announces finds! That particular mod also comes bundled with anti-cheat features such as light-level monitoring to deter fullbright hackers and x-ray users.
I just really don't like the current plugin. It takes away from my enjoyment of the server. Surely other people must be getting these crazy "chunk error x ray" things.
It does exactly what it's trying to deter.
 

Diffuse

Legacy Supporter 4
Joined
Jul 27, 2011
Honestly, I'd rather be trolled by the plugin than mine knowing I'm probably missing a good 1 in 5 mineral deposits. We've tried to use the other one and I remember that when they removed it and replaced it with the current one I got huge amounts of resources by going in peoples mineshafts and explored caves and getting what the plugin was hiding before.
 

Kainzo

The Disposable Hero
Staff member
Founder
Adventure Team
Joined
Jan 7, 2011
Location
The 7th Circle of Heaven
What you see is highly determined by how much lag you have connecting to Houston, TX - the less ping, the less errors.

We're working on fixes - the dev does this of his own free time and it is by far the "Best" at stopping XRAY so far.
 

whitemagehealu

Legacy Supporter 7
Joined
Jun 25, 2011
Walking into a cave and finding ore is > a plugin trolling you. It's quite obvious when you see fake ore.
 

Ellron23

Legacy Supporter 3
Joined
Sep 28, 2012
Location
Umbra, California
What you see is highly determined by how much lag you have connecting to Houston, TX - the less ping, the less errors.

So the x-ray stopper isn't what is causing the chunk errors? Good.
I hate it much less now.
I don't think I should have much lag at all! I have 10 - 15 mb/s down and 2-4 mb/s down in California.
I guess I just figured the anti x-ray was causing it because I've never had this happen before.
 
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