VGEcho warning

[Hendrix]

Hey everyone, I just want to throw out a warning when using VGEcho and why I feel it shouldn't be used... VGEcho outputs things to your VG chat window, which when your photo journal updates (which from what I can tell does it without you knowing) it could say something like, "Craft script activated" in your chat which wouldn't look to good . I know that any script I obtain from the boards will have VGEcho changed to plain echo to prevent such things from happening, but it may be a good idead to just avoid it all together.

 

[Zeek]

All screencaps that are sent to vgplayers remove the ui first. So none of that shows up.

Even radar does not show up.

 

[Hendrix]

of course radar doesnt show up. It is an IS thing and nothing IS shows up from an in game screen shot. The fact of the matter is, they still have the ability to take a full screen shot of your client at any time. Why risk banable material somewhere when you dont have to?

 

[DeeGee]

I've stopped using it when possible, but when doing a /where it uses VGEcho when in the console or not. To be fair, they could have always looked at screenshots in EQ as well, they just didn't announce it, or do anything with them, afaik.

It would be nice is IS had an audio alert option, or some sort of visual notification when there was activity in the console window (optional of course)

 

[Amadeus]

You guys worry too much.

 

[aChallenged1]

No they don't, they don't worry enough!

Screenshots from our systems? Unlikely. The screenshots on VGPlayers are based on our character's setup, not from an actual screenshot, ttbomk.

Ever look at those screenshots? It's your character and some other background than the one you actually had at the time.

 

[CyberTech]

ac1: The original vgplayers screenshots were your entire UI, chat windows included. That lasted a day till they realized it.

What they're doing now, i don't know -- the originally said they'd fix it by shotting only the world, not the UI.

 

[Grep]

Looks like the world only, no UI available in any of my VG shots.

 

[alphazero]

I am going to be completly honest, I dont think they ever look at them, they have a few too many things on their plate to worry about pictures atm. Maybe someday they will, but in the near future i see them frantically working on ways to prevent botting, not on ways to catch it. I was talking with a Gm, and he supposably jokingly said watch out for the teleporting crafting tables in the near future. So if he wasnt joking, that will be interesting =D

 

[fyyre88]

Hey everyone, I just want to throw out a warning when using VGEcho and why I feel it shouldn't be used... VGEcho outputs things to your VG chat window, which when your photo journal updates (which from what I can tell does it without you knowing) it could say something like, "Craft script activated" in your chat which wouldn't look to good . I know that any script I obtain from the boards will have VGEcho changed to plain echo to prevent such things from happening, but it may be a good idead to just avoid it all together.

Just block the blog site. hosts file or null routes work for this:

The IP is 199.108.0.135 and DNS playersqueue.station.sony.com