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THE BEST Anti-Xray Idea

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Chipaton:
That causes to much lag for the entire server I think.

Xeadin:
We don't want anything that costs too much resources on the server. I think that the idea chief might be the best option since it has minimal impact on the server's resources and has a fairly good success rate-- we are not completely certain, though. We'll have to give it a trial run first before we come to any definitive conclusions.

Chief149:
Nick, the developer of the plugin designed the default values to be a bit higher than what a legit player would mine on average when strip mining (which is the fastest legit way to get ores). What you encountered was one of the rare occasions. That does not happen that much, but while I don't know the preset limits, you probably would have mined them all, but if you were to hit any more diamonds, then you would have gotten the message.

Also note that the developer clearly states on his page that the plugin ALLOWS for SOME X-raying. Players can get away with xray with this plugin, but only to a certain point. Sure Nick, you would have tripped the plugin for finding that many diamonds MAYBE (because you got very lucky in a somewhat rare case, and if that case is not rare then it's probably already accounted for in the default settings). However any player that trips the plugin just has a mod+ take a quick look, and if the tunnels look legit then it's all good, otherwise it would be obvious if the player was using Xray therefore the player, if cheating, then gets banned.

But then again, if strip mining 4 sets of diamonds is fairly common, then I am sure the developer, with user input, would have modified the plugin as such to accomodate that as the developer on the dev page does ask for users to post about suggested ore settings which are eventually set as the defaults for the plugin by the developer. So the defaults are the way they are because other server owners have recommended those values for the defaults. Chances are they are right on, or very close.

cschurz:
it's not open source.

this plugin would only be nice if we could modify it to warn us of xrayers via helpop as they exceed their "budget" so staff could come take a look (and potentially reset their budget if they were legit). waiting for players to say "omg why cant i mine dis" is just stupid.

Chief149:
If a player says "wai cnt i mien dis" then a mod just tp's to the player, and 99% of the time the tunnels will be "xray" tunnels, and then the player gets perma-banned.

Meanwhile all of the normal players will just go about their mining expedition, and their mining rate won't go higher than what the plugin would allow as they wouldn't be cheating, unless they got incredibly lucky.

Also it might be possible that the plugin writer didn't obfuscate his code. If that's the case we could reverse engineer the code as Java is easy as hell to decompile. Don't ask me though, I don't know shit about reverse engineering code.

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