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  4. DDOS is back

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    Posted · Edited by Ceres

    Ad 1) Only changing the IP might help, plus other measures on the private network.

    Ad 2) I agree. The hurdle for new players should not be too high to join. On the other hand, they would maybe feel even more attracted to 0 A.D. when they learnt that some extra layer helps to protect themselves and other players.

  5. proposals for formations

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    How and where are the strctures referred to elsewhere in the code? I see some there in connection with auras and wonder if to put forests/trees there is the right way to go:

    D:\repos\0ad\binaries\data\mods\public\simulation\data\auras\structures

    Sorry that I'm likely writing nonsense, which is due to my lack of knowledge where to find what. I guess I would need to draw a Le Métro map for this. :D

  6. proposals for formations

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    For my understanding about auras etc.:

    Units A + B both have the same vision range.

    Now unit A goes into a forest. This must be flagged somehow.

    When unit B approaches the forest, where/who gets an aura? Unit A, unit B, or the forest?

    Will a vision/range of unit B be set to zero, so it cannot see unit A, until it gets really close? But would then unit B not also see nothing else in its surroundings, i.e. not even buildings in that forest? How could they be distinguished?

    Or will an aura of the hidden unit A be relevant?

  7. proposals for formations

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    Posted · Edited by Ceres

    So it would be 'Vision/Range' to deal with, right? EDIT: Something like this? (outpostvision.json) 

    {
	"genericName": "Carrier Pigeons",
	"description": "Increases outpost vision.",
	"cost": { "food": 300 },
	"requirements": { "tech": "phase_village" },
	"icon": "pigeon.png",
	"researchTime": 40,
	"tooltip": "Outposts +33% vision range.",
	"modifications": [
		{ "value": "Vision/Range", "multiply": 1.333333 }
	],
	"affects": ["Outpost"],
	"soundComplete": "interface/alarm/alarm_upgradearmory.xml"
}

     

    BTW, can wiki content by dynamically updated with updates code/js/xml? Then one would not have to bother anymore about the wiki not being up to date in some areas.

  8. Trading over water? (if trading or other large enough ships are available)

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    My camels don't automatically go on board of a trade ship when it's there. If it's intended to keep this manual, that's perfectly fine with me. I justed wondered if I have overseen something. I thought that when camels can go on an autoroute over land from one market to another, they could do this also across water (ships of course being a preriquisite). If you mean that the trading ships themselves are good for the same purpose (i.e. trading between harbours), I understand and now this. My question is still with the "land traders" and if they could cross water on ships automatically without manual un/garrisoning. But I will be sure to try it myself.

  9. DDOS is back

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    It's very likely that I misunderstood or not understood previous explanations, so please forgive me that I ask a similar question once more: Why couldn't whitelists help here? When people who like to play online have an account in this forum, they can PM their IPs, and 0 A.D. could use them and block all others. No?

  10. DDOS is back

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    Why would somebody with a botnet care to DDOS 0 A.D.? Instead, they could send spoof mails to collect personal data that can be turned into money.

    Is there a possibility that 0 A.D. gets abused via some "stack overflow" (I don't know the exact and correct term), so malicious code gets executed on host and guests?

  11. Trading over water? (if trading or other large enough ships are available)

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    Inspired by this post in another thread:

    12 hours ago, Gurken Khan said:

    Depending on the map and circumstances a dock (or two docks) might be the better choice: you don't have to own the territory to build a dock, thus you can maximize the distance.

    Is it possible to route traders across water if trading or other large enough ships are available, without manually garrisoning them onto a ship and ungarrison them from that ship on arrival? This could be a nice feature (less micro management). If it is not yet possible (admittedly, I have not tried it), could it be added? Or would it be too much automatism?

  14. DDOS is back

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    Has anyone ever cared where the IPs come from? I don't mean to have countries or other details mentioned here in the public forum, but think about something else: Do these IPs maybe belong to a certain segment that can be completely blocked? I understand that innocent people might thus get banned, too, but then there's maybe a solution for this, too. Could it be that the IPs of the attackers belong to people that have a special interest to harm a free open source software game like 0 A.D., as they see it as a competitive game to some commercial ones (about which they have interests)? I don't understand why else someone could be so ill behaving, having fun to mess with other peoples' joy, but maybe I'm just too naive. These ugly things (besides having kids, whom I certainly don't want to expose to all this) are the main reason why I never play online (WAN). BTW, is using a VPN-secured line between host and whitelisted chaps maybe a way to filter out the dirt? Anyway, I wish you success with this. Don't let yourself get down by stupid people.

  15. DDOS is back

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    Please accept my apologies for my ignorance about these IT-related specifities, but I wonder if 0 A.D. could get an IP blocker implemented, just like a router has. Or is it too late or impossible at this layer to block or ignore traffic from a "banned IP"?

  17. Increasing zoom?

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    @Stan` When zooming in, it's keeping the screen centre in focus. However, if one is interested to zoom in to a unit or just an area not in the centre, after zooming in, one has to move there (or vice versa). Would it make sense to have a toggleable zoom function, so a selected unit or area is kept in the centre of the screen, even if not originally in the screen centre? (e.g. Alt + scroll wheel)

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