SC2Mapster

Greetings,

Let's say you have a simple kill count bank.

In the appropriate notepad file, the count can be changed to whatever a player wishes simply by editing the file. Is there an effective way to help prevent this? Surely there is no way to completely defend against cheaters, but to at least not make doing so, so easy?

Thank you,

Potfish

@Pottfish: Go

Use the built in bank signatures and signature validation, that way modifying the bank will prevent it from being validated unless the person manages to hack the signature, which isn't particularly easy (But possible). Another thing to do would be to use the Starcode library you can find here on mapster, it will compress and encrypt integers, making it a lot harder to modify them and also saving a lot of space.

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@Pottfish: Go

Use the built in bank signatures and signature validation, that way modifying the bank will prevent it from being validated unless the person manages to hack the signature, which isn't particularly easy (But possible). Another thing to do would be to use the Starcode library you can find here on mapster, it will compress and encrypt integers, making it a lot harder to modify them and also saving a lot of space.

OK, I've checked the triggers and cannot find anything about bank signatures or signature validation. Could you please be a little more specific?

Thanks,

Potfish

The signature is a bank option. Try searching that.

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The signature is a bank option. Try searching that.

OK, thanks.

I also have one more question but I figured no need to create another thread since you people are so nice.

So, my map currently has an enormous number of dialog items that are all stored in one variable with a large array size. I need to have triggers to work with them but for the life of me I cannot figure out a way to specifically refer to them in an event.

Isn't it true that if I have many triggers like the following, clicking on any dialog will cause a lot of lag because the game will need to check the conditions of every trigger? For whatever reason, I can't check the specific dialog in the event even though I have variables for them.

Achievement Setting: Used
    Events
        Dialog - Any Dialog Item is used by Player Any Player with event type Clicked
    Local Variables
    Conditions
                (Used dialog item) == Dialog: Dialog Item[47]

For example, instead of using the event "Any Unit Dies" for multiple triggers, I am able to simply put "Unit: Boss[2]" dies. Why can I not do the same with dialog items?

Thank you,

Potfish

@Pottfish: Go

It won't cause lag for dialogs, and I don't think there is another way. Well, I believe 1.5 added custom trigger events, so you could make one big trigger check what dialog item it is and then activate the right event, but I honestly dont think its worth the trouble. The reason "any unit dies" would cause lags is because there's shittons of units and a lot of them die regularly (Remember that missiles are units as well?)

Also, using a variable in an event does not work unless the variable is set manually before the trigger is created (Which I don't think is possible without galaxy, apart from setting the default value of the variable). So using Boss[2] dies is the same as "Any Unit" dies I believe. I might be wrong, I'm no expert in this stuff, but that is how it works I believe. Someone else please confirm this.

There's a public bank signer out there so I wouldn't just rely on bank signatures. Some additional form of encryption or obfuscation would help much more.

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@Pottfish: Go

It won't cause lag for dialogs, and I don't think there is another way. Well, I believe 1.5 added custom trigger events, so you could make one big trigger check what dialog item it is and then activate the right event, but I honestly dont think its worth the trouble. The reason "any unit dies" would cause lags is because there's shittons of units and a lot of them die regularly (Remember that missiles are units as well?)

Also, using a variable in an event does not work unless the variable is set manually before the trigger is created (Which I don't think is possible without galaxy, apart from setting the default value of the variable). So using Boss[2] dies is the same as "Any Unit" dies I believe. I might be wrong, I'm no expert in this stuff, but that is how it works I believe. Someone else please confirm this.

Yeah, basically what I was trying to do was figure out a way to handle units dying while avoiding "Any Unit Dies." So... I made a lot of my triggers look something like this:

    Events
        Timer - Elapsed time is 1140.0 Game Time seconds
    Local Variables
    Conditions
        Unit - Create 1 Boss - Maker of Orphans for player 7 at (Center of Enemies: Spawn 2) facing 270.0 degrees (No Options)
        Variable - Set Unit: Boss[2] = (Last created unit)

    Events
        Unit - Unit: Boss[2] dies
    Local Variables
    Conditions
    Actions
                Dialog - Create an image for dialog Dialog: Dialog[12] with the dimensions (770, 132) anchored to Center with an offset of (0, 0) setting the tooltip to "" using the image Slap.tga as a Normal type with tiled set to False tint color White and blend mode Normal
                Variable - Set Dialog Item: Achievement Reward = (Last created dialog item)
                Trigger - Run Achievement Setting: Reward  (Ignore Conditions, Don't Wait until it finishes)

Thank you for telling me about the dialog... knowing that it shouldn't cause any lag is good to know.