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Hexagon

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Joined: 2015-04-22

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Should EE be open source? People already decompile it...

Since Everybody Edits is about the community, should it be open source, so that people can change the code base and fix bugs and have it reflected in another version?

Someone could use a centralized system like GitHub, and have the moderators as collaborators so that not anyone can just push whatever code they want to in there.

Then again, someone could just fork EE and create a new version somewhere else, but then again, aren't we just reverse engineering it to make bots and extract block images anyway?

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Sybil

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Joined: 2015-02-15

Posts: 171

Re: Should EE be open source? People already decompile it...

Eh.

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Aoitenshi

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Joined: 2015-02-18

Posts: 2,058

Re: Should EE be open source? People already decompile it...

I believe not. Botting community can be good and positive, but can also be extremely destructive to the game.

EE's record has been clean, but some games were screwed all over by their own botting community. It can be as destructive as DDoSing the entire server to crash (like Starbound's DDos Gun, to give an example).

Having one botter to kill EE for good is unlikely, but still very possible.

abrar11

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Joined: 2015-03-13

Posts: 359

Re: Should EE be open source? People already decompile it...

it wouldn't really be any easier to DDOS having the source, but there would probably be alot of remakes which are annoying

Processor

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Joined: 2015-02-15

Posts: 2,246

Re: Should EE be open source? People already decompile it...

Your logic is flawed.

Just because people CAN decompile the game doesn't mean we are ok with it.

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Re: Should EE be open source? People already decompile it...

That sort of logic would kind of be like opening a bank vault to the public because people break into it and give money to the poor.

capasha

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Joined: 2015-02-21

Posts: 4,066

Re: Should EE be open source? People already decompile it...

Your logic is flawed.

Just because people CAN decompile the game doesn't mean we are ok with it.

Then obfuscate it if you don't like that people decompile the game.
Bot's will die when there isn't possibilitys to decompile and look what's new.
Tikens world downloader/uploader will die, so will my minimap die too because we can't grab the colors or images.

Processor

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Joined: 2015-02-15

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Re: Should EE be open source? People already decompile it...

Just because people CAN decompile the game doesn't mean we are ok with it.

Then obfuscate it if you don't like that people decompile the game.

Now that's taking this too far. We are OK with things as they are right now.

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Zumza

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Joined: 2015-02-17

Posts: 4,656

Re: Should EE be open source? People already decompile it...

As my country law:
You are able to decompile everything which you have permission to access(e.g. while server doesn't deny my connection), without the consent of the author.
However you are not able to post it, without the consent of the author
While i translate the code into c# from another language in this case actionscrpit. I didn't redistributed the original code.
So I "hack" ee legally

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Benjee

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Joined: 2015-04-22

Posts: 11

Re: Should EE be open source? People already decompile it...

what are you guys talking about?? this is too smart for me. can someoe make it sound easier? thx

Pingohits

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Joined: 2015-02-15

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Re: Should EE be open source? People already decompile it...

what are you guys talking about?? this is too smart for me. can someoe make it sound easier? thx

mak ee fri 2 chanj pls

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Benjee

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Re: Should EE be open source? People already decompile it...

I'm sorry for the misunderstanding of my post, I now understand what a swf file is and how they are used in order to make the game work. I suppose decompiling the swf file would in turn release or otherwise allow the player to get access to the code, in which a swf file is essentially a pre-packaged compressed source code binary.

goeyfun

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Joined: 2015-02-18

Posts: 667

Re: Should EE be open source? People already decompile it...

I'm sorry for the misunderstanding of my post, I now understand what a swf file is and how they are used in order to make the game work. I suppose decompiling the swf file would in turn release or otherwise allow the player to get access to the code, in which a swf file is essentially a pre-packaged compressed source code binary.

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