Plugin System

[drakelord]

Originally Posted by Zlandicar

Try fix this MQ nonesence it's breaking EQemu.

I haven't looked too much into the macroquest thing, but from what I have heard, you'd probably need an application running in the background of whoever is running the client that checks to see if Macroquest is running. Which means, you'd need an additional component to the world/zone server, and it would have to be closed source for it to work effectively.

Care to give me more exact details about what MacroQuest does that crashes the servers/causes grief?

[Zlandicar]

From my understanding of MQ, you can crash people clients with it. This is a real pain for pvp servers. You can warp around and zone and use a dmg command to kill creatures. It lets people track anything including people and a map hack that shows where everything is.

You can also crash zones with it, So yea its a real pain. You can also instant camp with it. There's more i just don't know what they are.

[drakelord]

For the warping around / zoning, advanced checks would need to be added to verify that the person trying to move/zone is capable of moving that far in a set period of time.

For the damage command, I would need to discect the packet that is being sent to see exactly what is being inserted into it. If the client has that much control over damage calculations, that would be really odd.

As for the map hack, there is nothing you can really do server side for that. The server constantly updates positions for all characters/npcs in the zone, so you would need a program that prevents macroquest from running.

I can make something like that, but it would have to be up to each individual server to use it. It would also have to remain closed source to prevent someone from simply establishing a wrapper for macroquest that would bypass the system.

[Zlandicar]

anything close source that will work will be a great addon to the eqemu no one likes it.

[drakelord]

Originally Posted by Zlandicar

anything close source that will work will be a great addon to the eqemu no one likes it.

Let me ask you this then. Are the MQ users using the latest versions of MQ, or far outdated versions?