Dev's Limit Breaking 101 Techniques

Okay, sorry to be a pain here but this is not a good idea. I tried this and it works, no problems there as i can now have a space in my name.

The major thing you’re forgetting and i’m not blaming adoxa here as he was asked to do this, is that if you’re a server admin, how in god’s name are you going to find players that choose to just use space as their name? Or more importantly, more than one space? How do you find them? They all look the same. This is a nightmare for me as a server admin. They are impossible to trace or at least makes the job of tracking them very difficult.

It’s a shame as it does look good with no underscore, but i’m starting to realise why M$ made it this way and for once, they’re right… can’t believe i said that lol

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@ adoxa

Thanks for removing that. I mean if others don’t see the wisdom in my reasoning then fair enough but it could lead to all sorts of problems as already stated.

I did some more testing with this. Assuming the server has an unaltered exe regarding this hack and the client has an altered version, the name still shows up with the space in the name on the server so i suppose is easy to spot in that department. I use FLAC so for me it’s easy to trace people even if they use this but others might find it difficult. For anyone thinking of using this on any other server, be warned, it’s like painting a target on your back and clearly shows you’ve edited the exe file.

Okay, since you happened to catch this pretty quick, I’ve deleted it.

Gibbon wrote:
Or more importantly, more than one space? How do you find them? They all look the same. This is a nightmare for me as a server admin. They are impossible to trace or at least makes the job of tracking them very difficult.

If you have any DB with players on your server it takes about 10 lines of code to find and delete those with consecutive spaces, for instance.
If you don’t, well, you’ll have to read all the save files, but still you can get rid of exploiters

quick edit:
Personally, if all of my scripts supported spaces in nicknames i would allow them asap

As i said in my previous post, i run FLAC and honestly i could find out anything i want in two minutes flat regarding anyone on the server. I was sounding out more for people who have Ioncross or some other piece of server software. FLAC also doesn’t pick this up as an exploit, even though it’s not really which does worry me anyway.

My point is simple, if one player wants a space in their name, they all will, only option is to hack the exe file to do it. Do you really want players messing around with that? Why increase the workload on server admins?

I mean put the code up in the private server admin section by all means, that way the mod creators or server admins can decide if they want to use it or not. I just don’t think it was appropiate to post it in the public section even though it wasn’t adoxas fault for the reasons i mentioned earlier.

Its a bad idea to allow spaces in names, simply because many FL Server related programs will have problems with spaces in names.

{This response may want to be moved to your private admin forum)

If you use flhook there are several characters that a player can use in their name which will crash a server instantly if an admin does an info command on them. I would imagine a space in a name would cause an instant crash as well, perhaps one of you who use flhook can test this?

The major thing you’re forgetting and i’m not blaming adoxa here as he was asked to do this, is that if you’re a server admin, how in god’s name are you going to find players that choose to just use space as their name? Or more importantly, more than one space? How do you find them? They all look the same. This is a nightmare for me as a server admin. They are impossible to trace or at least makes the job of tracking them very difficult.

Copy paste charname from and to flhook console?

I dont want server crashes
Thx Gibbon and Adoxa!

I don’t use FLHook. In FLAC it actually works although you can’t edit a char name with a space in it once its created

will try ds account manager, results later

What do you mean w0dk4 managed to get light_anim for weapons working? do you mean effects bases lights on flash/proj/impact of weapons or actually attaching lights to stuff? If im not mistaken lightsource_cone is the degrees that the light will show up, radiating from the normal, like with stock headlights, they have a cone effect.

Ozed.

@fox: There are a few things I recall from other topics (didn’t check whether you already put them in, just listing what I remember):

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?post_id=26444#forumpost26444 (VERY important)

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2836&forum=27&post_id=27038#forumpost27038

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2700&forum=7&post_id=25337#forumpost25337

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?post_id=24427#forumpost24427

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?post_id=23562#forumpost23562

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?post_id=24359#forumpost24359

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?post_id=21904#forumpost21904

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?post_id=21855#forumpost21855

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?post_id=20438#forumpost20438

That may not be all of them, but I think I got the majority.

If you’re feeling daring, the best thing would be to make a Wiki page out of it with tables.

That’d take a while though

You’ve missed something with the stock randomizer:

0xC74424440000007F->0x8944244490909090 in freelancer.exe, 0x37ECB, 0x37ECB = market files control items in stock (MarketGood = , <required level=“”>, <required rep=“”>, <unknown>, <stock>, <sell>, <price multiplier=“”>) ~adoxa, M0tah</price></sell></stock></unknown></required></required>

The <unknown>value is supposed to be the minimum value of the stock and the <stock>being the maximum as adoxa says:

The unknown value looks to be the minimum in stock - retrieved by pub::Market::GetMinInventory as part of a function in content.dll. That function suggests a dynamic economy was planned, but not fully implemented.

Just though we should have that cleared up.

Ozed.</stock></unknown>

May be we should leave this topic for requests/tests/discussions of hacks, and make another one just for hacks’ authors to leave short documentation to insert to the list later…

Maybe you should move the Hacks to the wiki, they can be better Organized and formatted there

I’m on it right now, building the List with Tables, far easier to read than here xD

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/wiki/index.php/Limit_Breaking_101

Hard Part is done, I’ll hand it back to you guys, good night

– 0x05 in freelancer.exe, 0x16835B, 0x16835B = maximum number of characters per account, PART 1, BUGGY (literally just “05” in hex) ~Zephyer
– 0x05 in server.dll, 0x???, 0x7417C = maximum number of characters per account, PART 2, BUGGY ~M0tah

If you saw the CMP to SUR thread, the hack Lancer says works perfectly is for this, so here’s the updated version, using a ‘b’ suffix to indicate a byte value (range -128/0x80 to 127/0x7F).

– 5b in freelancer.exe, 0x16835B, 0x16835B = maximum number of characters per account, PART 1 ~Zephyer
– 5b in freelancer.exe, 0x169D2B, 0x169D2B = maximum number of characters per account, PART 2 ~adoxa
– 5b in server.dll, 0x72A0C, 0x7417C = maximum number of characters per account, PART 3 ~M0tah