locking mpmissions pbo

[feak 5]

does anyone know what  the website is or where to go to be able to provent others from stealing your pbo you work so hard on. i no there is a way as ive heard you have to pay £5 a month or something but no idea what or where to look.

any help please

[Z80CPU 527]

Hello @feak,

There is no REAL method of what you seek.  Main reason why is, the PLAYER must 'decode' it, so that 'process' is built into ARMA.

You can SLOW people down by using 'Mikero Tools', BUT, even I have 'broke into' a Mission.SQM file before.  There ARE tools which defeat the 'obfuscation tools'.

About the ONLY safe way, is to have those items STORED on the SERVER and 'handed out' to the clients.  At least this way, they do not have any actual 'files'.

This is done already by such stuff as InfiSTAR.

 

Problem doing that way, is the for EVERY CLIENT, you MUST push out all this data and this will cause slow-downs and eat thru your data limit for the server.  And some PBO's are GIGABYTES in size.  So someone must download 1-10gb before even playing...who is going to sit there for an hour or so to play on your server?  NO ONE WOULD!

 

But to prevent someone 'stealing your code'?  Sorry, there is no such program.  The 'decoding' MUST come from within ARMA.  You COULD have an EXE file that 'encodes' a common PBO file, then have the server send the 'key' to the client at which time it would 'decode' that PBO and when they left your server, it would delete that decoded PBO.  Even that is riddled with problems.

 

If you had searched on here, you're not the first to ask for such.  If you're so concerned, then make you server a 'pay to play' server, but this also might get you into trouble as the other mods you're using might object to have people paying YOU money for THEIR works, such as Exile.

 

 

[feak 5]

ok thanks man just annoying after spending hours making your own file people just steal them. rip them apart and take what they want lazy assholes.... lol

ok no probs cheers dude.

[[HG]RaVeN103 207]

The mikeros pbo's are very easy to unpack, even with the bi-tools. the only (not 100%) safest variant would be https://obfusqf.com. that keeps at least a small rogue away.

[Beowulfv 305]

There are tools that will hide the files, but all I would have to do is get the decoder for the software you use to get into the PBO. The smart thing to do is write in as much as you can server side, or have client side talk to custom code server side. This way the thiefs can't get the client portion to work without the server side, which they can't get.