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Closed Pornographic griefing in the wild

Discussion in 'Starbound Support' started by ArchGaden, Apr 3, 2014.

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  1. Rainbow Dash

    Rainbow Dash Oxygen Tank

    those damn swords people have crash me all the time
    the sooner this ends the better
     
  2. Scythe

    Scythe Void-Bound Voyager

    Have you tried asking them to put it away?
     
  3. Rainbow Dash

    Rainbow Dash Oxygen Tank

    yah, it normaly falls to, "your problem not mine" or they wont lisson
    like i sead i hope this ends soon
    the sooner the better
     
  4. Litagano Motscoud

    Litagano Motscoud Master Astronaut

    But...look at this badassery :eek:

    [​IMG]

    (stolen from Scythe's signature)
     
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  5. Wingfighter

    Wingfighter Guest

    Use the sprite in a mod and use it in singleplayer if you want, but don't make people on server lagg because of ""badassery""
     
  6. Litagano Motscoud

    Litagano Motscoud Master Astronaut

    I wasn't completely serious (though I was serious that it looks badass)

    But yeah, the functionality should be patched out, as the potential for abuse is too high. Shame, even though I haven't seen it in-game myself, looking at that picture, people must have made some amazing things.
     
  7. Wingfighter

    Wingfighter Guest

    This actually reminds me of an issue Android had, here the report https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=40506
    No matter what they used it for, it was an exploit, and exploits can be used to harm others (in this case, annoy will suffice), thus there is no justifying to be made for it's usage, it is an exploit, and any exploit should be patched.
     
  8. Scythe

    Scythe Void-Bound Voyager

    Even If I only use the items on private servers? That's like implying I sit around on public servers just to lag people
     
  9. ShinigamiKaze

    ShinigamiKaze Scruffy Nerf-Herder

    I'm a mod on a server and TBH I don't wish for it to be completely removed... it would be nice for them to just have it in the server config file to set the max images an item can have.
    As for Scythe, They are calm with those files and they may drop FPS but in no way would they cause you to crash... Don't believe me check your logs.
    This is not the Devs fault and the simplest way to solve it without ruining a big part of the modding freedom this game gives, is to put it in the server config making it the servers job to deal with it. Online play is never rated for this reason.
     
    Last edited: Apr 25, 2014
  10. Jelly Opera

    Jelly Opera Big Damn Hero

    The JSON file is the output of his image to weapon sprite generator. It's not the exploit itself...
     
  11. Wingfighter

    Wingfighter Guest

     
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  12. Dunto

    Dunto Guest

    It still shows the formatting and JSON structure that could be altered to use a different set of data to make a different image. Don't even give them a starting point or an insight on how to do it.
     
  13. Rainbow Dash

    Rainbow Dash Oxygen Tank

    did the new unstable patch fix this yet?
    i would like to play MP again
     
  14. ShinigamiKaze

    ShinigamiKaze Scruffy Nerf-Herder

    just to point this out I haven't seen this happen in weeks... it may happen on other servers still tho
     
  15. Pentarctagon

    Pentarctagon Over 9000!!!

    Given that people are already doing it, it probably wouldn't be too hard to google how to do it yourself anyway.
     
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  16. Dunto

    Dunto Guest

    By this logic, since one person got a zero-day worm you should try to infect as many as possible since it's out there anyways, right?

    Just because it's out there doesn't mean that people automatically know how to find and make use of the info, whereas giving them a working file just makes it too easy. Make them work for it, the lazy won't bother if it's too time-consuming. Fixing the problem is obviously the best solution, but until that can happen, you have to settle for damage control.
     
  17. Pentarctagon

    Pentarctagon Over 9000!!!

    Slippery slope much?
     
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  18. Scythe

    Scythe Void-Bound Voyager

    It is not an exploit. It's a game feature / mechanic that is used for the random generation of weapons.
    Being able to dig a hole at the spawn all the way down to the lava is exploiting the use of terra-forming and should be removed from the game. *A solution to this would be to just ban or kick the person griefing.
     
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  19. Dunto

    Dunto Guest

    The mechanic is a feature, but that fact that there's no hard cap on the drawables and/or all of the data is passed to other clients instead of just, say, a "show this mod's resource" message (which wouldn't work if they don't have the mod) means that it can be exploited and should be regarded as a security hole.
     
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  20. Tsunder

    Tsunder Phantasmal Quasar

    Additionally, such information is usually guarded from those judged to be of dubious intent.

    It does take quite a bit of timeeffort to put together the simplest of image, and larger images are regarded as pretty damn epic.
     
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