Help Me Hack

First, I will say that I do not have any intention of doing anything malicious. However, I do relize it's a sensitive topic and would understand if thise thread is deleted/closed/etc. Getting on with it... Ok, in the game Homeworld 2 (a 3D futuristic space RPG) the devs came up with the awesome (satire there ) idea of allowing every player to kick ever other player. WEEE!!! As you can guess, when you are winning people, it's not uncommon to simply be kicked by the losing player. It's not really as bad as it sounds, infact you can only kick people when they are lagging. However, whenever it's at that awesome battle that will decide the game, there is always enough units and commands flying around that everyone lags. So, you get kicked. On top of this I could choke my connection by starting a download or something and boot all my enemies. To further your agrivation. It dosn't say "You have been kicked by lamer SoAndSo," it doesn't even say "You have been kicked by SoAndSo." It says, "You have been kicked." Ohh, and there is a OK button you can click. You can imagine the effect this might have on you after putting 2 or more hours into a game and then seeing this screen come up and your gone in a split second. I have seen many hacks (I call them that anyways) that actually aid the game. The best example is "Defence Turret" for Tribes 2. I'm don't know a whole lot about it, but it appear to hack/remove a few of the "features" in the game that are exploitable and are the causes of many cheating scripts floating around. They also run checks on other things going on, and communicate every so often with the server; does some type of CRC or something. Now, if the server sees you doing all these things that are causing you to have different CRC values, then it boots you after so many fails. If you play clean, your good to go; if you cheat, you get a nice boot in your pants. So what I want to do is: I want somehow remove the clients ability to acknowledge the kick command that has been sent to it. I'm not sure how to do this, but I have a few guesses. My best guess would be to have a program keep a eye on the packets the game is communicating with and delete any inbound packets with a kick command in them. Basicly, you can't be kicked. The only posible downside I can see is that this may throw the game out of sync and basicly end the game for everyone; but hopefully not. Now, if your are truely lagging to the extream, or even disconnected, make the program let it pass (if your able to determin your own latency). I'm not sure how the system works. Sience you can kick someone who has actually completely disconnected, I would guess the kicking client's PC says "I'm kicking SoAndSo" and then all the other cliets drop there connection with him. Thus, if my hacked game refused to drop him, the game goes out of sync and game is over. As I said hopefully there is a way to avoid this though. Now I'm not saying "Someone make this for me then mail it to me." I simply want some tips to help me get started. I can code OK, etc. What I don't have is any "hacking skills." Should I start by inspecting the packets the game uses and see what I can find out? How would I do this? Once again, sorry if this isn't appropriate. [edited by - Cyber-Ace on March 10, 2004 2:21:51 PM]