Sorry to FriendlyFire, that is a bad manners to reply with a unconcerned post.

Now back to subject.

I still have problems on anit-cheat and now anit-thief. Because some guy still can cheat with INI editing, and i cannot stop them even anit-cheat pluged. So the best basicly way is encrypt those files.

w0dk4 talked about About reverse engineer in this topic. Coincidently i was look a black box, named ReadFile.dll because i think this can be change to support encrypted file if we can hack or rebuild it. But unfortunately i'm not a debugger, i don't exact know what in the dll.

I guess Freelancer load file with ReadFile.dll in EXE dir. I don't know if someone can make a new dll to make Freelancer support encrypted ini, cmp, and etc files. If it's possible, we can encrypt our mod with AES/other encrypt system and say good bye to cheaters and thief.

Yes, if i'm guessed it right and files been encrypted, only a specially version of readfile.dll can load it.

But actually i still think tools like FLCompanion, FLStat etc is modding tools, even mainly use by player to get secret objects easily.

Not all, I'm afraid.

I'm for this. Remember, Alex, that if you don't want it, make sure your mod doesn't have it. I know I'd use it; I hate DataStorm, FLCompanion etcetera.

Yeah, but when running some mods, it's so damn near impossible to make any decent money even WITH these tools.

a good mod developer does build his mod based on experiences of himself or other players. if he wants the money to be gotten easily, he can do so, without making the best route short and dangerless. if he wants to make a challenging mod, he can do so, too but he has to keep in mind, that every task ingame is passable without cheats or datastorm tools. the datastorming should not be the usual case. a mod developer should get back the possibility to make an interesting mod without thinking about datastormers. if you play a mod, that is difficult with datastorming, than it is this way, because the modders have to make their mods more and more difficult for the datastorming not to be too profitable. traditional freelancer, where everyone had to explore his trade route by himself is dying out this way. i am definately for a new encryption matrix.

you got it, Gibbon
is it true, actually, that most of the players can not even handle with files encrypted by bini?