Its such a shame this project was never continued. Nobody else is attempting anything like this. One day LOTRO will close for good and it will be too late to do any data mining.
Well, its all here on those pages to start over. But people nowadays tend to wait for final products, preferably some "app" they can easily install, just to rant about it later because it doesnt fulfill their personal satisfaction. I guess thats why xbadc0de lost interest.
The problem is that only xbadc0de understands how the encryption works. From what he has posted before it seems to be joined with some large tables of data from the client or dat files, but without a proper explanation from him as to how it works, we can never replicate his code. As he doesn't want to release code (which I understand), we have to replicate the work.
Once we have decryption then it is basically a case of performing step-by-step actions on a Live server, recording the packets, decrypting the packets and noting down what does what. After that we can work out how to write a server that can do the same things.
Gamli, if you ever come across this message, just reply back, i would like to contact you and ask you something regarding your post on some forum, thanks!
And the only things we hear are the crickets on the fields of the far distance land of progress ...
AntwortenLöschenHey, is there some way i could come in contact with you, i would like to ask you something regarding the matter of this topic!
LöschenIts such a shame this project was never continued. Nobody else is attempting anything like this. One day LOTRO will close for good and it will be too late to do any data mining.
AntwortenLöschenWell, its all here on those pages to start over. But people nowadays tend to wait for final products, preferably some "app" they can easily install, just to rant about it later because it doesnt fulfill their personal satisfaction. I guess thats why xbadc0de lost interest.
AntwortenLöschenThe problem is that only xbadc0de understands how the encryption works. From what he has posted before it seems to be joined with some large tables of data from the client or dat files, but without a proper explanation from him as to how it works, we can never replicate his code. As he doesn't want to release code (which I understand), we have to replicate the work.
AntwortenLöschenOnce we have decryption then it is basically a case of performing step-by-step actions on a Live server, recording the packets, decrypting the packets and noting down what does what. After that we can work out how to write a server that can do the same things.
Gamli, if you ever come across this message, just reply back, i would like to contact you and ask you something regarding your post on some forum, thanks!
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