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Heroes Community > Tournament of Honor > Thread: Heroes 3 Anti-Cheat Program
Thread: Heroes 3 Anti-Cheat Program
JohnStalker
JohnStalker

Tavern Dweller
posted September 08, 2004 09:42 AM

Heroes 3 Anti-Cheat Program

I think i have the solution for the perfect anticheating system in heroes3 .

It is a program through which the players will connect at the begining of the game.

That program will report the state of the "sensitive" files in the /games and /random_maps directories and also the file whihc are modifide by the trainers i dunno which are those yet.

That means taht when you try to copy or open those files with another program the opponent will be prompted and a log will be also sent to ToH.

I am still a newbie at Visual C++ and i think i program like that will take me at least sa month to do it, but i know there are a few skilled programmers between the Heroes3 players who can do it much faster.

There cabe be more of usefull features taht program can have : determine the cause of crash, automatic saves, the launching of the game through it, etc.

I will start anyway if no volunteers appear but i would like to know your opinions about that.



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TitaniumAlloy
TitaniumAlloy


Honorable
Legendary Hero
Professional
posted September 08, 2004 01:26 PM

but i like cheats!
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bjorn190
bjorn190


Responsible
Supreme Hero
Jebus maker
posted September 08, 2004 01:28 PM

Uhm.. I dunno.. if you make this program, can you install also a "cheat mode" for powerful player? Would be great, thx

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Motorschaaf
Motorschaaf


Bad-mannered
Famous Hero
posted September 09, 2004 04:50 PM

The perfect anticheating system for HOMM 3 has already been found. but he switched games and now plays Everquest

Councilschaaf

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hamsi128
hamsi128


Promising
Supreme Hero
tosser tavern owner
posted September 09, 2004 11:36 PM

Quote:
The perfect anticheating system for HOMM 3 has already been found. but he switched games and now plays Everquest

Councilschaaf


come to zone and try to remember old days you foo, hope to see you soon heroes5schaaf
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JohnStalker
JohnStalker

Tavern Dweller
posted September 10, 2004 01:06 PM

as i expected some mindless posts lol. It's hard to get something positive going around here.


i will try to do it even i have a strong belief nobody will use it.
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xx1
xx1


Adventuring Hero
posted September 10, 2004 02:13 PM


MOTOR FOR PRESIDENT !!!
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wanderer
wanderer


Known Hero
Mercenary on Azure's Kingdom
posted September 14, 2004 06:13 AM

what about I FOR PRESIDENT?
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vesuvius
vesuvius

Hero of Order
Honor Above all Else
posted September 14, 2004 08:04 AM

Interesting

The idea is sound; would you be able to program something like this?  It would be made available to any homm3 user downloadable on ToH.
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Hoher
Hoher


Adventuring Hero
posted September 14, 2004 08:40 AM

I can make program that will look on folders and be sensitive to modified files.
But trainer modify operative memory and do not touch any files, so programm will be unusefull.
Save every turn (or rename autosaves) and look it after game. This is best protection vs any kind of cheating.
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JohnStalker
JohnStalker

Tavern Dweller
posted September 14, 2004 11:00 AM
Edited By: JohnStalker on 14 Sep 2004

i did some researh, it can be done

The viewing saves it's easy to track like i said .
The trainers, you are right tehy use ram so there aren't any files which are modified ( i was wrong about that sorry).

But there is an much easier solution to it, the program will report any game trainers, or direct memory access programs which run in background. Or even better the program will report at anytime what program does the opponent use in background.


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Hoher
Hoher


Adventuring Hero
posted September 14, 2004 01:55 PM

It's possible to create programm, that will not allow to switch from Heroes - only after exit you can switch to other programm.
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csarmi
csarmi


Supreme Hero
gets back
posted September 14, 2004 02:07 PM

That does not solve anything though - the player can have more computers. If someone really wants to cheat on his side (computer), he can.

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JohnStalker
JohnStalker

Tavern Dweller
posted September 14, 2004 02:26 PM

We can't force the guys to don't switch from h3 some opponents take huge turns but,in my opinion, in order to be efficient the program has to :

- save every turn
- notify if the opponent is copying the saves or the random generated maps to another place for later viewing
- always show what the opponent has in background or switched to, if u see something fishy u can leave withour reporting.

What do u think ? Shall we do it ( me and hoher )

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morgan_le_fey
morgan_le_fey


Famous Hero
posted September 24, 2004 09:41 PM

for every offense there is a perfect defence and for every defence there is a perfect offence....LET THE GODS DECIDE!!!!!

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lt_hunter
lt_hunter


Adventuring Hero
posted September 27, 2004 04:04 PM

Hmm... You can`t stop cheaters... especially in an offline tournament...

Trainers are unstoppable...
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gorman
gorman


Promising
Legendary Hero
Been around since before 2003
posted September 29, 2004 04:59 AM

I'll play someone if they give me a time and place to be. I've got a US central time zone so I'll try and get somethin to work out
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