PS cheats?

[mikkyT]

Was it just me who clicked the link to the website and actually got the joke? Thats not a cheat website, its a site that plays very loudly "YOU ARE AN IDIOT" and now my boss is glaring at me cos the whole office heard it.

Not funny... well maybe just a little bit.

ANYWAY it seems this thread has moved to how to hack planetside, well its quite simple really - it was done for EQ.

You situate your PC on a network. You have another box (in EQ it had to be a linux box, but since there is a raw packet full TCPIP implementation in winXP we dont need linux).

The box on your network is a packetsniffer. You have a proggie, um I don't know, lets call it ShowPS which then reads the information coming back and forth from the planetside servers and can show such all manner of wonderful things.

PLEASE NOTE: Since the beginning of EQ, Verant tried to eliminate this sort of tool, if it ran on the same box as your game (some rather limited versions of said software could, and run EQ in a window etc etc) Verant would check your task list and if you where running such programs you would get an instant ban. In the user agreement they had a clause which permitted them to check your computer for things. Anyway eventually this was removed as a violation of privacy etc etc.

Eventually they started running encryption on the packet data (pretty obvious huh).

I HOPE AND PRAY that the PS Dev team have learnt from previous MMO experience and encrypt this data from the outset, and avoid the fiascos that occured during EQ.