Originally Posted by Vladinator
Anything can be spoofed using the addon channel
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Reminds me of the days I hacked the sync system for DamageMeters in BC. I would often come in as a DPS and give the healer or tank 999999999 damage, maybe more. It was hilarious to watch the group complain about their DamageMeters glitching.
Originally Posted by Sideshow
What can be spoofed about it?
Have an addon send messages and auto-respond ... measure the time it takes for the other one to respond, minus your own lag ... discard the actual message since it has no use
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I had an idea about this a few days ago, more specifically using the addon channel and some quirks with it such as the server echo to measure your own latency with the same message.
Originally Posted by Vladinator
Hehe, nice idea... but isn't the chat and game servers separate? Often I've lagged in the world but my chat worked fine, or the other way around, but still it's a good idea!  Measure the time it took for the reply to reach you minus own latency. |
They are separate, but when they're both running fine, it would be an adequate gauge to the quality of the player's connection.