Hacking theory\question

[kBlaster]

It's obvious that the game checks the server when you make a char to check if a name is unavailable. For errors like creating a character with letters like <GM> etc it doesn't according to what I have examined, the same goes for having nothing input. I was thinking- as this has been done on another game that I played- if someone could hex-out the error for <GM> or decompile the program and edit it out somehow in order to be able to make a gamemaster character. On the other game where this has been done (it was not public but I had access to the hack), you got an edited game launcher which edited the error out, on this game if you simply put [GM] in front of your character name it would input and your character would actually be a GM with full powers so the very 1337 and discr337 35 people who got this hack were able to create GM characters. Well obviously I was thinking that this could also be possible with WoW and making horde\alliance characters on a PvP server when you already have an alliance\horde character on it. Please post what you think here, flames will be ignored ^^.

This was probly a pointless and nub post but... yeah kk lol.

[lag]

I think someone did something similar to this with CheatEngine to make blank name and invalid names, etc (softedit of course). I'm pretty sure that the hex edit idea would not give you powers since they are flag based on server side, but still a REALLY cool idea. Perhaps someone could dig into this...

[kBlaster]

I don't really care about powers, it'd be cool to walk around as <GM>Rubberducky though :P... I don't know anything about coding for the cause that I can't find any good place to learn, so I couldn't help much with this =(.

The hack for the game I was talking about still works however now they have to recognize you and add you to the database server manually to give you powers. (It used to be they sent hired GMs a client and so when you made a char you had powers and now they do the same however hired GMs have to wait for verification) They really got screwed over the day that hack was made lol.