@rayblon

I'm still using it on 1.7.4 .

Cold however poll for:

• Blocks in the default config:
  • Should new ones be added (log_2, other).
  • Should blocks be removed or added based on experience?
• Is placing diamond blocks and then mining a problem? Seems to have been en vogue with mcMMO - could attempt to track placed blocks (without saving to disk), in order to reduce false rates.

@elfoe

File is pending approval.

@elfoe

I am still using it. Will probably update here soon, to have the version set right.

@Pixiyo

I can :), but currently it still should work fine, no?

@Pixiyo

Ok, but it should still work as before.

@LenaDINNERTIME

Currently i am combining it with Orebfuscator and worldguard logs, but i admit this is on some list already. If i should make it to the "actions" stuff for players reaching some rate then something like this will be in most likely.

@Pixiyo

Thank you :)

I will update further, however my time is not getting more and i will probably not add too great features like pattern analysis, unless it becaomes part of what i have to do anyway, or if a team forms for it (could happen that something will be built into NoCheatPlus some day).

Currently the plugin is running on latest Bukkit dev builds. One might have to add emerald_ore to stats blocks and ratio for stone.

So features that i will/might add will involve the smaller things like notification ploy and probably preventing players to break blocks under certain circumstances (depending on ratio, light levels, discovery speed). I might work both into some "actions" scheme, where you can configure what has to happen under what circumstances.

@gustebeast

I was intending to add things like notifications, how to bring in such and make it configurable will demand some care, though..

There is nothing built in against placed blocks, yet. I have been thinking about it, and i am not sure how to tackle it efficiently. Keeping track of placed blocks and piston moving etc. would be a bit tedious and also would mean more performance penalty.

Maybe i will find some simple heuristics that about do it (like max height per ore + just counting the placed blocks of a kind).

Still an open topic...

Update:

Actually i do often reset the stats for players, because having thousands of stone mined you will get some average of mining phases and building phases, which does not allow for accurate judgement anymore.

On the one hand it is nice to know how many blocks a player has mined at all, on the other hand the purpose of DarkTrace is to indentify cheating in the first place, so i might go for methods that try to identify mining phases and judge those individually, which would often mean to "forget" current stats. This could also partly solve the placed-ore problem, because removing a diamond-ore floor usually would show up as suspicious but would also likely be more like a blotch of ores or a mining phase (local).

Another thing might be to build a trace of a players behavior, possibly for suspicious players or on demand, which then allows for terleporting to positions of activity.

I will get back to pen and paper this weekend ...

@Esaych

Not that i would know of - does anything else happen, is something broken ?

@asofold

A little update - i am running Orebfuscator (use it if you can!) in parallel with DarkTrace, such that new players get the obfuscated chunks sent, while vips mods and long time players get the normal chunks sent - that works pretty well.

The interesting detail is, that the suspicious list has become so boring ... only sandstone and gravel on it, almost no ores anymore.

@S3thc0n

That is true,

yet turning brightness to 100% is not the "normal" way to play.

I agree that this is subject to matter of taste, but some people consider mining in darkness still to be like cheating, even if "only" using brightness at 100%, because that is not the intended way of using brightness.

One should not consider a few blocks (even 20, 50, 100 depending on type) to be cheating rightaway, but till now experience tells that most cases with dark mining still are xray. It still is a good indicator of whom to check, especially if people have mined ore and stone in darkness you might want to have a look, if you then see that thewy miraculously mine towards ores, it will be plain.

Of course some poeple stay in a small cave at night and try to get some flint of gravel and such - for this kind of plugin you still need judgment and a little experience.

If i should have time i might add other criteria for xray like really analysing patterns of moving/mining, and also detecting mining phases and allow to forget data automatically - but that is future by now.

If you want to allow turning brightness to 100% etc., you can hide the light levels by display settings or set the suspicious threshold for light levels to 0, such that it is unlikely for them to appear in suspicious display, then you have the light levels as a reference when checking the stats on suspicious ratios, which also can be useful for decision.