… in a far away land - Germany.
Therefore, I post a little chronological order in what happened to get me a dedicated server and how it came to sa:mp host - and you may find out the reason why I posted this. Maybe not. But for me, there’s still a reason to re-think how i came to that.
Still alive… more or less, i suppose. Nothing much of a change yet, easter holidays with the first sa:mp 0.2 public beta are over, school is going to start tomorrow.
The beta’s weren’t as great as I have expected them, they showed off a little new features yet didn’t release a scripting server - what would be in my opinion the most important part, as I don’t care about playing a bit on official servers really, scripting for the win.
So what’s new is as I’ve seen virtual worlds which could be handy for a game mode i may develop and release later, since you could, just to name a few:
sure a great option, this’ll avoid people to use Rocket Launchers etc. on youSome other nice features in 0.2 are Snipers - not Rocket Launchers, they suck when you just give them to all people on your server without special purpose…
… and of course the ability to use custom DLLs to extend the server’s native functions - my favorites are md5/sha1 and MySQL. I don’t know about MySQL’s license, Mike mentioned something about you may not spread MySQL-Dlls around, but I can’t tell you really. If that is the case, there probably won’t be another version of my admin script featuring all nice stuff I can think of - web-based server management included as well as the ability to manage your server as easy as with my old admin script. Still a shame there are people out there that still WILL be provide tools to crack those password algorithms, but a collision in adler32 is much easier to find than in md5/sha1, just ask yom. Still those are retards, they’re making the stuff a lot harder for themselves since they save the password crypted and then wait for the cracker to generate a random collision with that number.
I finally decided for a step some people might complain, but whoever reads not on this blog yet won’t even notice I’ll release a new one…. To make it a bit more difficult for people to claim that work as their own and to avoid those kiddie-admins to just steal everyones password and then try to hack into account - or at least call it ‘hacking’ - I will NOT release the original source to just everyone, I may decide to give it to a few people that asked me and who yet have shown some scripting skills before. I’m not sure whetever I’m going to release a modified version (means one-line-code, no comments, no unnecessary spaces and cryptic variable names) that is just patched by a php script to look like that, but is fully functional - or just release the AMX and no source.
cheers
mabako