No more download, no more tracking, thanks to Scuba Steve deciding to ruin it for the public.

That's awesome. Can we have multiple databases for this?

Talk to me ingame

Yay! Another bit of possible ingame subtlety goes the way of the dodo, facilitating easy combat and removing the roleplaying notion of privacy.

Somehow when I saw Rogue had the latest reply here, I had a feeling it wasn't very nice. You want RP? Fine.

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/7/17449#219615

Now there is a perfectly acceptable RP background for the tracker.

How come Im always up to no good?

Just can't help myself I guess...

rogue: lua in general does that, besides modifying how your UI looks.

To have total "privacy" and "fairness" one would need to remove lua access.

Okay, there are no updates. Scuba Steve decided that since he didn't like the idea of getting "tracked"*, he's going to ruin this for everyone. There will be no public tracker. Thanks Steve!

*Even though it's no different from typing "Scuba Steve was seen in Sedina B8" on 100

And now it's busted. Pirate's Toolkit has been updated with "Vanish".

I suppose Smittens will be removing this sooner, rather than later if IRC is any indication.

Wow Steve, you're a dick.

Why? If you can break the system by introducing a tracker, then he can break it by breaking your tracker. :-)

Break the system? Deliverator-controlled bots had a similar tracker, IIRC.

It's not the ability Roguelazer, but the intention. Scuba broke it to be a jerk.

No, no. He broke it for a legit reason. I don't mind if someone individually wants to figure out a way to keep their info private. Then I asked that he keep it to himself, and THEN his intentions became that of a jerk. Unfortunately, I don't have the exact quote, but I believe it was something like

"Okay, Smittens, either you pay me a buttload of credits, or I release this to the public" (only, he forced in many big words and somehow stretched that out into a multi-line sentence)

Well, his reasons may be impure, but I'd say that if you feel the need to release a tracker to the public, it's only fair to release an anti-tracker to the public, too.

I have the IRC logs if anyone wants them.

Seems to me it'd have been more fun to see an arms race between tracking and anti-tracking technology. Like speed traps and radar detectors.

The problem of course is that at some point one side or the other would escalate it from "breaking" a tool in the game-context (reporting false information or otherwise impacting its accuracy) to trying to damage or crash the tool completely (Denial of Service, etc)

It's not really an arms race. I haven't (and don't plan to) devote enough of my life to LUA-ing that I could beat Steve at this. The tracker is coming back soon for the general public in a very limited manner rather soon, though