Evony
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Evony Posted on: 10/14/2009 9:17pm
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I know that the game is based off the system timer, so things involving time cannot be changed (or can they?). Anyways I was hoping that some of you guys knew some way to do something useful.
Re: Evony Posted on: 10/14/2009 9:30pm
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most of us wont dare to load up that game since its spammed kong and everything with its ads so you probably wont get any hacks from us
Re: Evony Posted on: 10/14/2009 9:44pm
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There's a nice little addon for Firefox called AdBlock-Plus... I haven't seen an ad in 3 years (broken image removed).
Re: Evony Posted on: 10/14/2009 9:51pm
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Quote from: "Copyright"
There's a nice little addon for Firefox called AdBlock-Plus... I haven't seen an ad in 3 years (broken image removed).
meh i dont care for that because its just an ad i see it then i just play the game im playing again
Re: Evony Posted on: 11/08/2009 5:23am
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this should make you not want to play evony anymore
Lee
I am a student studying computer games design at uni and decided to investigate Evony.com.
Just to see what some of these games are like etc. etc.
The game is actually kind of cool (found myself addicted and even spent a little money on it).
But I started to notice HUGE bandwidth use by the site as I played.
I am not the only one either, there are comments on the evony forums about this.
This is odd because all of the client info, the animations etc. are all downloaded in one big download at the start.
There is no streaming media so I began to wonder what was going on.

To cut a long story short I decided to break the law and reverse engineer Evony's client.
Not to cheat. Not to rip them off or even to use even a scrap of the code.
But just to poke about a bit and find out what was going on, maybe even offer them some ways to improve things.

Aside from the fact that the whole thing is very poorly constructed (it is really very beginner coder level stuff. Reminds me of a lot of
what the first year students produce for assignments) it contained some very interesting information.

Included with the client are 2 peices of tracking software that monitor your web use and which applications you have open while the client is running.
These do not install independently on the machine though due to the limitations of flash and do not actually damage anything.
But they harvest massive volumes of information. My firewall was blocking a lot of outgoing transmissions and it turns out that these
were the data trying to be sent out. So they know nothing about me. lol.
However there is a LOT of data coming IN over the ports the client uses. In otherwords it is downloading something into my cache for use later.
I have bandiwdth restriction which slows these types of tricks down and I completely clear my cache every couple of hours if I am heavily using the net.

I also noticed that all the varanbles etc. are named Civony still and that there are multiple references to UMGE.
Even a couple of folders are simply called UMGE, one of these folders contains one of the spyware programs.
So I can only guess at where the data would end up if I didnt have a good firewall.

There are also commented out sections in the code which contain references to UMGE and Lam himself, though low on details.

Thank you for reading this.

Lee
Re: Evony Posted on: 11/08/2009 11:12pm
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Quote from: "idkwhoiam"
To cut a long story short I decided to break the law and reverse engineer Evony's client.

Reverse engineering isn't illegal no matter what software companies tell you.

Do I read the message right - you have to install a client to play the game? That's number one reason not to play it. If it's just Flash, there's only limited things that they can do within the sandbox.
Re: Evony Posted on: 11/09/2009 5:31am
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Is this even your own rant? I can see you just copy+pasted from here: http://www.lazygamer.co.za/general-news ... continues/

Oh, and copyright, the reason why you won't see any actual gamer playing this is discussed here: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1186
The first link I gave is also a blog that points this out.
Re: Evony Posted on: 11/09/2009 11:15pm
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yea i copy and pasted it from the kongregate forums is that a big deal?