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When I was running my Ultima Online emulator in highschool there was a "Welcome, there are currently 6 other players in the world." Can you guess what I did in
by mentos 2y ago
When I was running my Ultima Online emulator in highschool there was a "Welcome, there are currently 6 other players in the world."
Can you guess what I did in the early days to eventually grow the server to over 2000 real active players?
- aspenmayer 2y agoDid you spoof the value server side or run bots? Maybe some portion of the 2000 organic players were also running bots? I ran some personal bots back in the Diablo 2 days with D2Loader and some shareware bot plug-in I bought on a shady site for like $12 in ~2003-2004 or so. Wish I could remember the name. https://web.archive.org/web/20100813125735/http://d2loader.blizzsector.net/ https://web.archive.org/web/20100813125735/http://d2loader.b... Apparently there are modern versions of D2Loader type software. I haven’t really followed the game or the bot scene much these days, but I like the cat and mouse game in general across the physical and virtual space. Red teaming scratches that itch I guess. https://github.com/shupershuff/Diablo2RLoader https://github.com/shupershuff/Diablo2RLoader
- mentos 2y agoHa yea I spoofed the value server side so it was something like NumPlayers*20+RandRange(0:3) So that if there were only 6 online it’d report 123. Took only a few weeks before I was able to disable it and report the real values.
- mozman 2y agoAs long as it works that’s all that matters. It’s natural for people to not want to be an outlier