A great idea ( I Think) : SWG Premium Discussions

[shwebby]

Why dont the guys that make the hacks license them so they can only be used on the computer that downloaded them? (Idea from callofdutyhacks.com) This would stop ppl from being able to send the hacks they download to friends which therefore would stop them gettin nerfed so quick.

[r04r]

My personal objection to that is that everything would have to be released closed-source, but that seems to be the trend lately regardless.

If people want to put protections in, I'd suggest simply requiring a premium TU username/password. Would need some help from tault_admin for that, though.

[shwebby]

Yeah well something along that line just need to stop ppl from being able to send it to their friends which i reckon wuld help everyone in the long run specially tault cause it would force ppl into paying for premium membership

[r04r]

Or submitting for premium.

If other people are interested in my idea, I'd be fine with suggesting it to tault_admin and offer to make the server-side implementation including statistics and logging so it can be detected when one login combo gets used by a bunch of different IP addresses, and then in turn can be denied access.

[shwebby]

U better make the post r04r since ur more experienced with this kinda stuff, Wuld be great to get this all up and rolling though.

[r04r]

I'll wait and see if some more people comment on this.

[lulzhai]

My personal objection to that is that everything would have to be released closed-source, but that seems to be the trend lately regardless.

If people want to put protections in, I'd suggest simply requiring a premium TU username/password. Would need some help from tault_admin for that, though.

I like this idea, go for it

[rugburn]

Nothing is full proof. Any protections you put in place will likely be worked around by those who don't have a sub, unfortunately.

[r04r]

Nothing is full proof. Any protections you put in place will likely be worked around by those who don't have a sub, unfortunately.

Of course, but it should still be better than nothing.

[shwebby]

So..... Reckon this will happen or what?

[Tault_admin]

This might be possible. We had something like this back in the day for exhume but it wasnt used as much. However we can attempt to once again do this. The plan eventually is an upload area that will add custom protection and checks if you are premium or not.

[r04r]

It would be nice to see that happen, and I'd gladly help with creating it.

[_obelix_]

imho - *if* such a protection should work, it needs the trainer to be "activated" each time it is started. The website / database has to check the following:

a) is the user / password combo valid?
b) is the user premium member at TU?
c) is there already a logged in user from a different IP than the IP that is requesting "activation"?

c) prevents user / password sharing but should allow a legitimate user to run the trainer on different machines in his home network.

Of course the reply "activation message" from the database / TU server needs to be encrypted and different for each "activation" somehow, so you can't reroute the IP and set up a local server just sending an "everything ok - you are allowed to start the trainer" message.

Unfortunately I don't have any idea how to do the encryption. The other stuff shouldn't be that difficult... Apache, mySQL and PHP should do the trick.

[r04r]

Yeah, the encryption would be rather simple to do. Much like a serial generator. Could still patch the program to accept anything, or just skip it alltogether, but meh. Nothing can be perfect

I could arrange all of that server-side and the auth code for autoit as well if required, plus a documentation on how to implement it in other languages.

[rugburn]

I dont know if I'm comfortable with having a user-made/third party program validating my login/password.