Want to fix no animation hacks?

Understanding the mechanics in the game and realizing yes, no animation in a sense cannot be stopped. however, Here is a simple fix to force players to play fair when they are being extra sneaky with abusing the game.

If Animation length is > than Cast time, than cast time = Animation Length

A simple EZ Script to add in and test out. I have done this for a few private servers already and they said it works flawlessly, it's something you guys at GamezNetwork might want to think about implementing as No animation is cheap and not everyone always has fraps up to catch hackers.

I just installed aion again today, and the patch is at 2.1.0.7. I don't know if ur private server supports this as I have been getting stuck at the server select screen. Offsets changed.

 

If you are getting stuck at the server select screen, you will just simply have to re-download the Gamezaion Launcher. Worked like a charm for me. (after updating the NCSoft launcher that is).

And I love your idea.

+1 Bump! <3

 

i tried reinstalling launcher twice already : / do u have 2.1.0.7 version of Aion?

 

i think the server supports 2.1.0 only if im not mistaken

 

2.1.0.7 works. Siel was down earlier today, so try again.

About your suggestion: does that imply that skills without cast time (but with animations, obviously) would get cast time? If so, I don't really like the idea due to non-casted skills being cancelled midway from stuns, sleep, etc. Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

interesting, and thanx for bringing this up. This will have to be tested with 0 second casts and see how much of a game breaker it does, Although 0 second cast spells still can get canceled by stuns and sleeps, very rare and i doubt it will raise the rareness by a great deal unless the animation lengths are longer than .2 seconds.

edit: I thought stuns interrupt skills even with 0 second casts if the stun goes off before the animation is done. Can anyone verify this? I havent played aion in over a year so sorry for my lack of memory : .

 

No, zero-cast spells can't be interrupted, ever. Also, the animations on a large portion of skills are 1 second or longer, which I couldn't imagine being converted into a cast time. And that would also imply that no animation would show after the cast, which would visually look bad (unless the animation happens while casting, which would be fairly difficult to script, I'd assume).

It's a nice concept, but there's too many technical problems for it to be applied.

 

what about creating a thread to keep an eye to casting time? something like

canUseSkill(player)
return player.castingtimer=<0;

useSkill(player, skill)
if (!player.canUseSkill()) send system_message that u cannot do skill;
else {
do all skill stuff
create a thread to start counting
and finally send packet for start casting

so if anyones doing noanimation and tries to do skill before casting time ends will receive a system message and effect wont appear

it could be done without threads also.

 

Animation and casting time are 2 separate things. Also animation time is controlled by client only (thats why no-animation works on every server, even retail), so there is no effective way to prevent this. I've tried to implement script that used fraction of player's attack speed as delay between skills. It worked fine but community went QQ about them unable to weave anymore (even tho it was still possible, just autoweaves didnt occur that often)... so it was reverted (not by me =\).

 

no-animation - affect in special glads and male classes

 

dude speak in english !!! i like it the way it is now

 

i disagree, i am running 2.1.0.8 version...bump

 

i know animation its client side.
but on server side it must receive a packet that tells that this player is trying to use x skill, and there's where it calls the skill constructor and all the other stuff.
and as far as i know server must send a system message to this client to start the animation on client's side.

so if it was a timer for casting time it could be possible to prevent doing skills in time < player.castTime() (for example), sending a message to the client. so even if they dont do animation the dmg and all the pvp maths wouldnt be done.

sorry for my english

pd : didnt read about the non casted skills. what about doing an xml that has all the non casted skills base time? with the same method i think it should work :S maybe im wrong but it's the only way that i think it could be possible >,<

 

Like Asanka and I have posted--

Cast time and animation time are different, most importantly because cast times can be interrupted in a large number of ways (ex. stun) that animation-skills wouldn't be. Also, chain skills would be affected, since afaik you can't add cast time to chain skills (or it would create lots of bugs, at the very least).

 

not an option either. every skill has its own base animation time and animation time of every skill depends on attack speed. Do you happen to have exact formula and base animation time for every skill to write that .xml? If not: how do you want to measure them?