Thread: What's inspired me to learn coding

So you basically want help with cheating on a game, which has some anti-cheating measures already built in to frustrate the screen scrapers and bot writers.

But I think you're missing the point of the game.

Do you even know if an all-yellow character is even possible?
My experience of such games is that each character is flawed in some way, and the whole point is to choose a style of game play that takes advantage of the character strengths and avoids the character weaknesses. An all-yellow character will be at a disadvantage in EVERY situation, because the opponent will always be stronger in something.


Well you could just wander like a lost soul from one forum to another hoping to strike lucky.

Or you could put in the months of practice to make a decent stab at it yourself, then post on a forum if you're actually stuck on some aspect of your own code.

Or just give up and hand over the money to someone willing to spend however many days it is likely to take to do this.

> I basically want to know if this is even possible.
Yes.

> Someone tell me if this is going to be way to complicated for someone with no C++ experience.
But you already know the answer to that one don't you.

Originally Posted by Jimminy

And now this little click of people have many of them so I would like to level the playing field.

I suggest that you level the playing field by reporting those who cheat and by reporting a bug with the effectiveness of their anti-cheating measures. You might also want to report a bug with the game mechanism itself, though that would be more debatable.

Now, if you were trying to write a program to figure out an optimal set of character stats that you could legitimately choose, that might be a different story.

It doesn't look like there is any choosing involved. It looks like you can just mash the reroll button as much as you want. It even says in the screenshot that the aim of it is to get as high of stats as you can.

I'm assuming this is some kind of online thing? Why don't you just packet sniff when you hit reroll, and then parse that to see where each value falls, then simply check for max stats in that?


Quzah.

Originally Posted by quzah

It doesn't look like there is any choosing involved. It looks like you can just mash the reroll button as much as you want. It even says in the screenshot that the aim of it is to get as high of stats as you can.

There is a choice involved, though it does not involve stats selection: the choice is whether to accept the stats given, or try again. What Jimminy wants to do is to automate the trying so that this choice can be avoided, but such automation would be against the rules, given the CAPTCHA type of anti-cheating mechanism.

What CAPTCHA? There's just an OK or REROLL.

edit - Ah, I didn't even see the last graphic there for some reason.


I don't think the colors lack of purity has anything to do with a security measure, but more of a "this is what happens to graphics you printscreen and try to zoom in on". I figured if he's already figured out how to make it click the button with his little reroller, that sniffing out the packet or looking at a row to see if there's roughly equal blue and green in the color should be fairly easy. This should be pretty easy if he spends a few minutes with a color picker and rerolling, to find the range of yellow, or enough to approximate it for his checks.


Quzah.

Originally Posted by Jimminy

Yes, they're called 6-stats, because they're perfect. I have a 6 stat Elf. Someone else has a roller for this game though, and It took me like 10 years to get mine. And now this little click of people have many of them so I would like to level the playing field.

So, if I'm reading this correctly, you think that the way to deal with cheaters is to cheat yourself????
You may want to give that a bit more thought, my friend...
The active question being, how exactly does that make you any better than them?

I hope you're perma-banned and then taken out and beaten with a baseball bat. I highly doubt everyone is cheating. What, everyone has devised their own program to do this? If so, why are you trying to re-invent the wheel? Just use what everyone else is using.

Quit trying to make yourself out as some victim instead of the game mechanics killing scum that you are. All you're doing is helping destroy the the whole purpose of having random character attributes.

How can you even begin to find joy or any sense of accomplishment when you know you had to cheat to get there? If you use an aimbot in a FPS are you actually proud of topping the kill chart? It's pathetic and people like you ruin the competitiveness of games. Instead of adding to the problem, report the offenders.

Originally Posted by Jimminy

Hey, atleast I've found an interest? This is what has made me want to learn, I'm just asking ..what to learn?

I would suggest starting with the tutorials here. Begin with Lesson 1 and work your way through. No one here is going to help you cheat.

Originally Posted by Alexandre

Actually, it's pretty reasonable. In a world of cheaters, non cheaters cannot win. Basic game theory logic. If everybody cheats, cheating is the new norm and unless you become better at cheating or find different ways to cheat you have lost your edge.

You assume that cheating automatically leads to a win, which is not true. However, your general point is true... but in a world that can be changed, the appropriate solution is to change the world, not cheat.

Originally Posted by Jimminy

Hey, atleast I've found an interest? This is what has made me want to learn, I'm just asking ..what to learn? You see my problem, how can I create something to fix it?

If cheating is the only motivation you have to learn programming, I would rather not this message board community be responsible for helping you to learn programming.

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