Computermix's hack wasn't even brought up on the forum that we had. It was developed independently of the Blockland Reversing Project. It is not, and will never be condoned by the BRP. The BRP's goals were to research how Blockland operates to facilitate low-level modification of the game for beneficial purposes. Some of the topics we were putting research into include:
- Selective Ghosting - only ghosting objects to nearby players to effectively defeat things like a maximum brick count
- In-game Voicechat - allowing clients to communicate with eachother using VoIP protocols
- Improvements to the ingame audio engine - overthrowing the way audio works to improve auditory experience
- Third party authentication confirmation - guaranteeing a third party add-on that the user is indeed who they say they are
- Implementation of JavaScript - allowing modification of Blockland in more than just TorqueScript - a language most coders hate
Okay I can safely say that
none of that was ever mentioned in BRP or to me, and I was there for weeks. As trinick has said in the past himself, the entire forum was inactive. What's there was what was going to be there the entire time.
And for the record, I'm all for dll mods, as long as there's some sort of screening or forced open source system for anything that gets released.
While most of those things are good and would indeed be helpful, none of them were being planned by the entire group as a whole, maybe individually though.
