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Started by SweBow, 2012 Sep 21, 21:42:31

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Ahaut

So Matilda is behind all this eh  :/

Charcoal Sketch

Well, at least so far, I haven't been contacted by any of my former groups about if I want in on an attack or test.  Then again, I haven't had an invite since starting watching the show around February or March of 2011.  The last time I had an urge to meanly mess with anyone's online games, professional or fanmade, I had a mental image of Fluttershy yelling at me, and decided against it.

I do know that a good number of former attack persons are watching the show and contributing 3D, vector, and standard art, music, animation, stories, and the like.  Let's just hope that the ones responsible for the more organized attacks have all had as much of a change of heart as I have.
Who ordered the flaming rutebegas?

LaptopCommandStation

Woo to the changing of the topic!

I just realized that i'm at an impass about whether to play as a pegasus to try out the flight mechanics, or as an Earth pony as Penelope is an earth pony...

Meh, i'll likely play the stress test as a pegasus, and play Earth first on the release  :D


Stitchin Time

This whole thing is just boss.




























What did I just say?

The Wandering Magus

Quote from: Chishio Kunrin on 2012 Sep 27, 14:52:17
Quote from: Charcoal Sketch on 2012 Sep 27, 14:30:43
Quote from: Chishio Kunrin on 2012 Sep 27, 13:49:25
I wonder if they're also testing stresses on lots of people downloading it. There'll likely be a lot more people downloading it at the same time when it comes out for real, after all.
I hope not.  As I've mentioned in my introduction post, I've done a slew of alpha and beta testing, and I've also "hacked" quite a number of games, whether to find vulnerabilities and report them, or just to be mean (but I haven't done THAT in ages).  Considering the game test is NOT a secret, there are a few things that should be expected:

1)  Either a single person or a collected group may purposely jam up the direct download link for the client as a denial-of-service attempt.
2)  The same as above or a second party might purposely grab the client, quickly add a virus, mirror it, and see how many people they can down.
3)  Meanwhile, groups 1 and 2 will share the real client around with a bunch of their friends, and they'll all flood the server with fake or real login requests for another DDOS.

I call it the "4chan effect" -- they've done this to quite a number of online games in the past.  When Trickster first launched, they not only managed all of the above, but they flooded the server with real accounts and had a player sitting on every single available space to stand in near the main buildings, effectively blocking anyone from completing any quests, while spouting filth and memes.

Hey, just my personal experience.

Hopefully, Anonymoose won't moose things up for us ponies, then. :\ /pun.
exactly my concern, but Tekner thinks there's no problem at all, and that there's no possible way that any of that can happen.  Now, I really, really put a lot of faith in the programming team, but calling yourself invulnerable is asking to be hacked imho.
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Charcoal Sketch

Oh man.  No files released until an hour after they're put into the wild at the convention.  This might not end well... it won't take much to keep people from getting the client, and thousands of people refreshing a page looking for a DDL or torrent link might be enough to kill servers right then and there.

*debates making plans to do something else this weekend*
Who ordered the flaming rutebegas?

The Wandering Magus

Quote from: Charcoal Sketch on 2012 Sep 27, 17:14:27
Oh man.  No files released until an hour after they're put into the wild at the convention.  This might not end well... it won't take much to keep people from getting the client, and thousands of people refreshing a page looking for a DDL or torrent link might be enough to kill servers right then and there.

*debates making plans to do something else this weekend*
actually, being there would help make a point actually, and as it has been said, mistakes are valuable learning experiences.
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Charcoal Sketch

Let's just say that if I were at the convention and had a high-speed net connection, I could probably single-handedly overload the servers if I were maliciously against this succeeding.  I pray that nobody like that will be there.  I've already started putting together a list of things I can do that will let me still be a moment's rearrangement away from getting on the game if things work out, and I'm waiting to see if there's anything worth doing away from home that are worthwhile enough to not participate in this test.

I refuse to post exactly what I'd do so that someone can't copycat it, but let's just say that if this were something based on Twilight or The Hunger Games, I'd actually think of doing some damage... no matter what the Fluttershy voice in my head would say.
Who ordered the flaming rutebegas?

The Wandering Magus

Quote from: Charcoal Sketch on 2012 Sep 27, 17:26:50
Let's just say that if I were at the convention and had a high-speed net connection, I could probably single-handedly overload the servers if I were maliciously against this succeeding.  I pray that nobody like that will be there.  I've already started putting together a list of things I can do that will let me still be a moment's rearrangement away from getting on the game if things work out, and I'm waiting to see if there's anything worth doing away from home that are worthwhile enough to not participate in this test.

I refuse to post exactly what I'd do so that someone can't copycat it, but let's just say that if this were something based on Twilight or The Hunger Games, I'd actually think of doing some damage... no matter what the Fluttershy voice in my head would say.
well, I suggest PMing Tekner and Swebow, and I say this in all seriousness.  Nothing is more distressing than thinking you patched everything that could be patched and having everything get deleted/destroyed/etc.
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Trixster

i am most certain swebow and co. got more than 1 backup
Hug a bear, sometimes all they need is a little care.

Wing


Weatherboy1

BRACE YOURSELVES, LATE REGISTRARS  ARE COMING!

The Wandering Magus

begging pardon?

Charcoal mentioned the ease with which a single server is brought down, and from there I don't think it quite a stretch to imagine two or more backups going the same way if the threat is as large as it seems.  Regardless, perhaps a crash would be a good learning experience and preparation for when the "real thing" begins.
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Lucien

Sometimes I wish things like this could be secret so we wouldn't have little people that are only around for public tests and things, and that don't read the rules. In other words I wish the only people that did the test were the people ALREADY on this forum, not hundreds of little noobs from EQD.

Just my humble opinion. Critique me now.

On a lighter note, why would anyone want to DDOS this?
Starting anew. I am a musician. My past here means nothing.

Charcoal Sketch

Quote from: Lucien on 2012 Sep 27, 18:26:17
On a lighter note, why would anyone want to DDOS this?
Because it's there?  Because it'll upset a bunch of people at the same time?  Because it's hard to upset a Brony in the first place?
Who ordered the flaming rutebegas?

Repor Fixup

Quote from: Charcoal Sketch on 2012 Sep 27, 18:41:02
Quote from: Lucien on 2012 Sep 27, 18:26:17
On a lighter note, why would anyone want to DDOS this?
Because it's there?  Because it'll upset a bunch of people at the same time?  Because it's hard to upset a Brony in the first place?

He's got a point. People do things just because.
Thanks for the drawing, Tiger.

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The Wandering Magus

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Descriptions and art of my OCs here: http://legendsofequestria.com/forum/index.php?topic=2636
my art: http://legendsofequestria.com/forum/index.php?topic=298
visiting soldier sister, be back 8/12/2013

Repor Fixup

Thanks for the drawing, Tiger.

I love to fly around and fix things with my hammer.

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