GreenSeed
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Posted - 2013.04.19 08:54:00 -
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why do people still insist that eve-mon is doing cache scrapes?
are you guys new on this game? years ago there was a huge ruckus with the cache and it was agreed that pulling market information was ok, they even made the client do market dumps in plain text as opposed to the old garbled cache format.
market dumps are even done in a separate folder, its not even used as cache by the game. they are just tab formatted market dumps.
so please, stop spreading misinformation. no market uploader touches the cache of the game, only market dumps.
and claiming they will ban people who upload market dumps that the game overtly does for no other purpose than to allow that specific use, is a silly as saying they will ban all miners because the mining lasers re-cycle automatically, even when a miner is on the next room reading a book.
cache scrapping is a bad thing, we all get it, and we all understood it for the last 5 or 6 years. because cache scrapping was used in the past to:
- know which ship just entered system without having it on grid, probed or even on dscan.
- create a dummy bookmark to warp to, without having that bookmark, or a warpin on those coordinates.
and has been recently used to:
- know what text is entered on which field in game. <- this is why they banned that E-Uni dude.
i am honestly surprised by the fact CCP employees don't seem to be aware that years ago they modified the client cache system in a way that made the client dump text information from the in-game market.
they don't seem to know that they even added code to the IGB to allow items to be loaded from it...
honestly im baffled... is it really that hard to pick up a phone and call someone who worked years ago in CCP and ask them "hey men, why is the client creating a text file every time an item is searched for in the market, and why is that file never, ever accessed again by the client? why is it plain text? why is it time coded? why is said file even created when the client does not use it as cache of the items information, and asks the server for updated information every time that item is searched for?
there's no need to make a half assed claim like " we will only ban cache scrapping if its used to bot or something against the TOS" all they need to say is "ehhh.... the market dumps are not cache."
cache is model information, textures, input fields, including even information in the region of the RAM the game has assigned. you cant access that information... in fact, if you live in the US that's actually illegal, as in "omg i need a lawyer" illegal, and you have your congressmen to thank for that. |