Cyber Warfare

Rougeminner, on 26 July 2015 - 05:03 AM said:

what sub packs for flans are installed?


btw i agree with the team idea… so long as it stays fairly balanced

SnappComputerCraft, on 26 July 2015 - 06:17 AM said:

Sounds neat. Maybe make custom operating systems for the server?

Ice Cream, on 26 July 2015 - 04:15 AM said:

I have been on a plethora of various servers lately, and it seems that a lot of people would thoroughly enjoy a Cyber Warfare esque server. I recently aquired the resources to host a server, so why not? I wanted to make a post to assure that people on the forums are actually interested, and atleast a few people would join.

I'm going to leave this for open discussion, regarding the rules and such so i'll setup a few spoilers containing what the server should feature in regards to programs, mods, etc.

Mods

ComputerCraft
Flans

Rules

- No Griefing/Stealing
- You can enter another persons base and use their computer(s)

Edit: What would you guys think about a team system, when you join for the first time you can pick to be on either red team or blue team?

delaney519, on 27 July 2015 - 12:52 PM said:

Needs ICBM MFFS and OpenComputers.

Lignum, on 27 July 2015 - 01:43 PM said:

As an alternative to having two teams, perhaps we could allow the creation of many individual teams? A 'last one alive' style game. An example of implementing this: Every team builds a base with a "reactor", this reactor has to be cooled every 5 seconds by a computer (using a peripheral function call?). If it is not cooled, the reactor explodes and that team automatically loses the game. The goal is to eliminate the other teams' bases by destroying or hacking their reactor computers (the reactor itself is unbreakable).

While this would require a simple mod to be made, it would also extend the duration of the matches by quite a bit. This may be beneficial for players living in different time zones.

In addition to the care packages you mentioned, what could increase hackability even more is shop software that is integrated into the ROM. This could encourage people to create online shops, from which the other team(s) can buy items. By listening to shop traffic, it'd be possible to see what the other team(s) are buying or selling, allowing a strategy to be built based on their purchases. Many players joining late into the game would benefit from this, but in turn would make the powerful players even more powerful, which makes me a little bit skeptic.

I do like the idea of encryption/decryption. However, I'm just not sure whether it could work the way you said. How would you stop an upload? What use would stolen data be, if all computers upload equally fast?

local reactor = peripheral.wrap ("back")
os.pullEvent = os.pullEventRaw

while true do
  reactor.cool ()
  sleep (4)
end

flaghacker, on 28 July 2015 - 08:20 AM said:

local reactor = peripheral.wrap ("back")
os.pullEvent = os.pullEventRaw

while true do
  reactor.cool ()
  sleep (4)
end

Not that impressive, and not hackable (from range) at all.

rednet.send( id, {
	["request"] = "cool";
})

local reactor = peripheral.find( "reactor" )

local function main()
	while true do
		local e = { os.pullEvent() }
		if e[1] == "rednet_message" and type( e[3] ) == "table" then
			if e[3]["request"] and e[3]["request"] == "cool" then
				reactor.cool();
			end
		end
	end
end


local ok, err = pcall( main )

Rougeminner, on 29 July 2015 - 06:57 PM said:

which mod is this reactor from?

Lignum, on 29 July 2015 - 07:09 PM said:

Rougeminner, on 29 July 2015 - 06:57 PM said:

which mod is this reactor from?

It's a made up block. We'd have to make it if we did use this system.

H4X0RZ, on 29 July 2015 - 08:04 PM said:

I think it would be easier to make it a bukkit plug-in.

Lignum, on 29 July 2015 - 08:24 PM said:

H4X0RZ, on 29 July 2015 - 08:04 PM said:

I think it would be easier to make it a bukkit plug-in.

But how would you interact with ComputerCraft? Making a multiplayer Minecraft mod nowadays is pretty easy, anyway.