I posted this on the old forums a while back, it attracted a lot of attention, and I believe @aXed accepted it, but since the new forums came, the idea got buried, forgotten, lost So here it is again So annihilation as it currently stands comprises of a lot of xrayers/hackers. I'm not too sure how to combat hackers, hence this post is about xrayers. Xrayers ruin the game in 2 different ways, they can see your position on the map, or they can find your furnaces and chests. Basically ruining the whole aspect of the game. Personally I find this a major problem as I mostly invis rush, meaning they find me in the sewer always, and people on my team find my chest while Im rushing. Im not too sure how to stop the tracer part of the hacks, but definitely the aspect where they find ur sht has to be stopped. Farmers will find this especially annoying. So last time I suggested a plugin called orbsufucator or something, apparently that is super buggy and laggy, this time I typed anti xray once again into google I found this: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/anti-x-ray/ IM AMAZING I'm not too sure about compatibility, but if its not, could you please look for an alternative and not just abandon the idea. The other idea I suggested last time was maybe a new plugin could be made that just converts chest and furnaces to look like dirt or something while its been covered or something. ORRRR, just thought of this now, we could have xray traps. Hidden chests and furnaces, when found, insta bans the player !!!!!!!!!!!! ... Please could this thought about in the new anni update, Ill love you forever @Arjenpro @aXed
There is a new developer, who could develop an anticheat, but I think the anti cheat has to rely on something to ban people. Just like factions or others it relys on ores mined and shit. In the same way, anti cheat plug in has to rely on something solid which can be a solid proof that the guy has cray, there are certain things which no one can deal with. I've seen people have this problem too but all i found was this problem, maybe there might be anti cheats who could know what mods the guy is using idk. Plus the idea of hidden chests is good but it would be no different from the current systems where an admin would require to come on and see if the guy is really xraying or no, there is no anti cheat possible for this, if the admins can regularly check on with the chests thing to catch people with xray that will be pretty cool, but idk I might be wrong, this is what I've read at places, but yeah if there is something that could ban these xrayers that will be good.
What about crouching npc's which spawn near each team's sewers, people who find them and kill them would be banned? That's pretty definitive proof for me, idk. Maybe not just near the sewers but anywhere in the map. But there should be at least 1 in each quadrant at any given time. @aXed pls reply
What if you just randomly pass by and find someone, maybe it will be proof enough idk, but mistakes are always made.
I mean place the npc underneath the ground encased by its surroundings, like a 2*1 hole underground at a random position where an npc can spawn which has leather armour.
Anti-xray needs to be on other servers too not only anni like ; factions , ppl can find and a lot of spawners with xray + there's also chest-esp im not so sure about it
