Dambielzzz
TNT
- Joined
- Nov 3, 2012
A bit of background, I once ran a server, and I have done some investigating of the herocraft mods and such. I even personally tested the countermeasures the mod you are using. I noticed a TON of block lag while mining yesterday or whenever, with only about 40 people on. I noticed that ore blocks did occasionally disappear after I mined during lag spikes, so I assumed you had the pesky old xray anti cheat.
I installed a xray texture pack (for testing ONLY. 1.8 texture packs apparently can work almost like the hack now and no longer require empty space to register surrounding blocks), and I saw the mod you are using is extremely efective. The pack I used let me see through stone and dirt and gravel I believe, and the mod you are using rendered it useless, and even made it so it was harder to work with the texture pack on then not.
Picture this, in a three block radius around me, the anticheat produced a shell of fake ore and air, allowing me to see nothing whatsoever. Furthermore, the 'shell' updated every time I moved a block. Its great and necessary to have something like this, but I think it is kinda overkill, especially when it (may) sacrifice the playability of the server.
All im saying is maybe loo for some alternative for this as it causes a massive amount of lag due to the chunk updates it constantly has to send to every player or very chunk, assuming it works the way I think it does.
Some possible alternatives is using a mod that logs every time a player mines an ore, and can be modified to register only certain ore, say diamonds and emeralds. These reports can be compiled into a statistic, say diamonds mined in an hour, with a (fairly simple) program as the number is logged to a consul and no longer functioning in minecraft. If someone has a ludicrous number of diamonds mined in an hour, a mod would have to personally investigate. If i remember correctly the mod logs the location the ore is mined. A mod could look the path said miner takes and if it looks suspicious (directly between ore to ore, missing very little good ore) and decide if hacks were involved. I know this takes a lot of man hours and work, but this is just the mod I remember using and it was a pain but worked. And it didn't cause any lag. Of course there are other things I don't know about that work, I have been out of the hosting game for a long time.
please look for an alternative for the current system.
Hope I dont get banned for this, I'm just trying to help out.
I installed a xray texture pack (for testing ONLY. 1.8 texture packs apparently can work almost like the hack now and no longer require empty space to register surrounding blocks), and I saw the mod you are using is extremely efective. The pack I used let me see through stone and dirt and gravel I believe, and the mod you are using rendered it useless, and even made it so it was harder to work with the texture pack on then not.
Picture this, in a three block radius around me, the anticheat produced a shell of fake ore and air, allowing me to see nothing whatsoever. Furthermore, the 'shell' updated every time I moved a block. Its great and necessary to have something like this, but I think it is kinda overkill, especially when it (may) sacrifice the playability of the server.
All im saying is maybe loo for some alternative for this as it causes a massive amount of lag due to the chunk updates it constantly has to send to every player or very chunk, assuming it works the way I think it does.
Some possible alternatives is using a mod that logs every time a player mines an ore, and can be modified to register only certain ore, say diamonds and emeralds. These reports can be compiled into a statistic, say diamonds mined in an hour, with a (fairly simple) program as the number is logged to a consul and no longer functioning in minecraft. If someone has a ludicrous number of diamonds mined in an hour, a mod would have to personally investigate. If i remember correctly the mod logs the location the ore is mined. A mod could look the path said miner takes and if it looks suspicious (directly between ore to ore, missing very little good ore) and decide if hacks were involved. I know this takes a lot of man hours and work, but this is just the mod I remember using and it was a pain but worked. And it didn't cause any lag. Of course there are other things I don't know about that work, I have been out of the hosting game for a long time.
please look for an alternative for the current system.
Hope I dont get banned for this, I'm just trying to help out.
