BNCSutil Example Bot

[iago]

The only time this case bothers me is when said thief is determined to use the code, but isn't competent to do so.  So he ends up pestering the original author, or even completely unrelated people, for help.

I thought of that, but didn't want to mention it because it hurts my point

I guess all I can say is that, generally, they find little or no help, and are eventually forced to give up or take the high(er) road.

[UserLoser.]

The only time this case bothers me is when said thief is determined to use the code, but isn't competent to do so.  So he ends up pestering the original author, or even completely unrelated people, for help.

Things like that are annoying.  For example, CSB, everyone on this forum are pretty much unrelated people .

Also other situations like the one that occurred a few minutes ago.  I take the time out to translate this function from C++ to VB for this one guy to use in his bot, then he asks how to use it.  I explain it to him, and he tells me he gets errors.  He shows the code, and I say he needs to allocate memory for the return buffer, he asks how, *sigh*

[Soul Taker]

Nice, UL.  What function?

Anyway, tonight I decided to download this example program and see if I could develop a simple application that would log on and enter chat with all hardcoded login information, just to see how difficult the demo is.  I only ran into one small error because I missed one of the functions that needed to be called in the demo source; an error that took all of three minutes to spot and fix.  Other than that, every function and packet worked perfectly on the first try.

So, in my opinion, if someone can't figure this demo out on their own, they really shouldn't be getting help.  It's really easy.

[UserLoser.]

Nice, UL.  What function?

http://dmbot.valhallalegends.com/encdec.txt

[Soul Taker]

Nice, UL.  What function?

http://dmbot.valhallalegends.com/encdec.txt

Wasn't this converted to VB forever ago?

[Networks]

What cloaked should have done is just provide only the functions instead of providing a full connecting bot, at least the source stealer would have at least had to struggle before actually getting it to connect fully on to battle.net. I know it wouldn't have made that big of a difference but still.

[Soul Taker]

It's been released, deal with it, we can't magically make it disappear now.

[Warrior]

Yet I still had people AIM me asking me why 0x0C wouldn't work and how to make it work. *sigh*

[iago]

Yet I still had people AIM me asking me why 0x0C wouldn't work and how to make it work. *sigh*

And I assume that you were born knowing?

The best bet for this isn't to give them the answer, but the means to find the answer.  I recommend a packet logger

[NetNX]

Yet I still had people AIM me asking me why 0x0C wouldn't work and how to make it work. *sigh*

And I assume that you were born knowing?

The best bet for this isn't to give them the answer, but the means to find the answer.  I recommend a packet logger

Or bnetdocs (helps me alot more then a packetlogger <3 ARTA)

[Warrior]

Well actually, looks more like them taking the whole bot, it not logging on and them asking me how to make it work. Sorry if you misinterpreted, iago.

[shadypalm88]

Well actually, looks more like them taking the whole bot, it not logging on and them asking me how to make it work. Sorry if you misinterpreted, iago.

That's probably my fault, since the example bot has a "Home Channel" field on it (force of habit) but never actually uses the value.