warbirds gets hacked alot

[eye]

I read a interesting article about wb on dogfighter.com
It was about the wb con and wb3.
Guy said that wb's got hacked alot.

that they kicked people off every day.

I was just wondering if this happens here?
I felt it happened alot in aw3. When ever it came up guys would say " No way im not hacked."
They would call you  crazy.


I just found it interesting that one of their guys would admit it.
You guys might want to check out what he said was going on.

I wish they would of said if it was a free use thing or guys hacking plane performance.

EYE

[Zeiram]

I believe that there is no such childish pilots who find feel joy by cheating FM in AH.
I met so many people here who don't satisfy WB's FM.
however one of the reason is that WB is more easier than AH.
(Can I say chasing hard core sim?)

Do you want to play golf without any rule even if you can play like Tiger Woods?
Does anyone want to fly on zeke with F-16 FM & engine in MA ?

on the other hand, I believe that
the pilots in AH are proud of own wingman, enemy and current AH community.

[Thrax]

Hacking happenes fairly seldom in WB. And I am guessing it happens as often (or as seldom) in WB as it does in AH.

Please don't start another WB vs AH pissing contest. Life's too short...

Thrax

[danish]

What Thrax said.

danish

[Exile]

I think eye is just curious how hacking is handled in AH. He used AW3 and WB in his statement of the topic. Didn't sound like any kind of pissing contest to me.

This is a very good question and I'm sure everyone out there would love to hear how HTC is preventing AH from getting hacked.

OK ... maybe the title could have been worded differently.  


[This message has been edited by Exile (edited 07-05-2000).]

[AKDejaVu]

 

Guy said that wb's got hacked alot.
that they kicked people off every day.

These people are not being kicked off because someone thinks they are hacking.  They are being kicked off because the server detected they were trying to hack.

The same people that wrote the hacking detection program that "kicked people off every day" wrote AH.

AKDejaVu

[Gadfly]

Only 2 incidents in 2 years that I know of on WB, but as stated above, the code detects hacked data before they get a chance to fly it, and I'm sure it does the same thing here.

Lizking

[Westy]

 No one could ever accuse EYE of having his facts straight, let alone knowing even what the facts are.
 This is EYE's compulsion. He sees hackers and cheats behind every rock. And they're out to get his "points" !

 -Westy
 

[Nash]

Lem: For the year 2000, are you thinking of going more open source. More and more companies are going open source, using the power of the community?

Hotseat: I want to do that for the art, but I can't do that for the game. We're hacked daily. You have no idea how many people we kick off every week, because we can't publish it. If I kicked you off tomorrow Jay or me are not allowed to go out and say we kicked off Lem. You'd just disappear.

[Kieren]

This is a dangerous path to enter, even if you mention no other sims. What always happens is the camps divide on the "yes, I know there are hackers" and the "no, no one hacks here" border. Inevitably someone posts a screen or quotes a comment, and the witch hunt is on.

Best to leave this stuff alone on a public forum. If you have definitive, irrefutable proof mail it in by all means. That said, it should be remembered that people are people, and there are probably just as many people trying to cheat here as anywhere else (whatever that means). Best to assume the best in everyone you meet, because life's too short to stress over whether the guy that just killed you is cheating or not.

[SKurj]

Well said Kieren

Seen the cheat witchhunt destroy games and servers in the past.  Posting that here was likely a mistake in judgement on your part EYE.  I know u didn't say AH specifically, just the term "hacker" is enough..
The word "cheat" or "cheater" said aloud in the MA creates paranoia.  Thank COD ya can squelch chnnl 1...
I'd be willing to bet that the % of players that even atempt to cheat is <5%, and of the tiny percentage, probably only a few ever succeed.

My thots..

SKurj

[hblair]

What kieren said.

[rosco-]

 I played a fair bit of WB and more DOA than I care to admit, and other than the odd newbie elevator warping I can say I never seen anything that I would say was definate cheating.  Same thing here. When I die its my own damn fault.

[Ghosth]

Right on Kieren

That is one witch hunt we can do without here.

Whatever the situation it's really not OUR problem. We have to trust HT to give us a fair playing envoirment, and I've seen no reason not to thus far.

[AKDejaVu]

 

Lem: For the year 2000, are you thinking of going more open source. More and more companies are going open source, using the power of the community?

Hotseat: I want to do that for the art, but I can't do that for the game. We're hacked daily. You have no idea how many people we kick off every week, because we can't publish it. If I kicked you off tomorrow Jay or me are not allowed to go out and say we kicked off Lem. You'd just disappear.

ROTFLMAO!  HS must have to special order hats big enough to fit on his head.  I always love it when someone uses figures that he "can't disclose" in an argument.  I especially like the "they just disappear" statement... is there really a "hacker" gustapo out there?  Do they really come to your house?

As for the initial question... open source for an on-line flight sim?  What a question.

AKDejaVu