Had a nice conversation with Kegz on a random EpicEmu stream that someone linked to me after someone accused a friend of mine of being me, and also accused me of attacking his server with DDoS attacks...
Well, guess what, I was, but they weren't ddos attacks, they were EQEmu protocol level exploits, and it's been fixed for a while. My fun is over now that I got a reaction from him, so here you go, full scoop:
There's an 8 month old exploit, which I even said I'd be willing to fix given the chance, that several people in EQEmulator have knowledge of well after it's been fixed. Well, I'm a person of my word, you can find the fix for this here, Mr. Toop:
Fixed a performance issue involving std::string and EQStream identificat... · 1ebf88a · EQEmu/Server · GitHub
And I may as well post the script, which does not work on any other server that is up to date on EQEmulator.
Kegz, if you want to be taken seriously in your server adventures, there's a community of nice folks out there in EQEmulator who would have tolerated you had you given them the chance, and probably still will. Hell, Tyen's even in our coders channel and we don't remove him because it's an open community, despite the pras/unity spam getting on peoples' nerves at times, he's still a contributor in his own way and shouldn't be shunned.
That time still hasn't passed and I am sure you'd be fine getting back on the loginserver list if you put it on there, registered or unregistered as a worldserver on the list. If that's something that interests you, just do it. You don't need to seek approval from everyone to validate your servers' existence, or what the features are, or whether it's open source or not. If you had followed that path, this exploit would've been fixed, all the 'changes' you made to make AC work would have been probably accepted via a Git pull request should we have confirmed they are valid, and you can certainly use whatever database content you feel like using with whatever ruleset.
There's people that may hate you like some members of P99 and these forums, but P99 and Rerolled aren't EQEmulator, nor are they your playerbase. You have a following, you should act to help that following, make it grow, and contribute back to what makes us a whole.
I enjoyed the time I played PlanetSide 2 with your outfit. I know you're a chill dude sometimes. I'm the same way. But freaking out didn't serve me well, and chances are it won't ever serve you well either.
We're even, now. You trolled with cheating on P99, I trolled with an exploit.
Be the change you want to see in the world.