Legacy encryption will only be supported in the official version. Quests made in previous versions(2.10, 1.9, etc) that are encrypted will not open in the open source version. Honestly I think this is a poor decision and I don't understand why we are so worried about it. As I have said before I am not so big on encrypting quests anyway.
Protected from what? Is it really that hard to crack pre 2.5 passwords? And what is it that need protection? Are we afraid of people taking quests like lost isle, making small edits and re-releasing it as their own? As if doing such would result in anything but ridicule. A lot of us want to know what needs to be hidden? I bet most people who want to crack open the great quests want to see how it was done not to steal. I know a lot of people are possessive and don't want their work open...
Originally Posted by Dark Nation
Let me share with you a story of my own. A while ago, I created an SMW hack called "EVERY LEVEL IGGY!" (excuse the title) People liked it, all was good. Couple of years later, I'm notified that someone created their own hack using mine as a base. I contact them and find out, someone else took my UNLOCKED hack and claimed it as their own, spreading it around places with people who didn't know that this person was a thief. So the previously-mentioned person asked if they could use the hack as a base, and they were told "yes".
So, I understand the desire to keep a password on quests, just to protect all your hard work from theft.
Will the original 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th quests be protected in the open source version? Not that I'd like to actually modify those quests, butt it would be easier to see if I caught all the secrets and have a peak at the enemies coming up in the next dungeon etc. :)
Few of us know, but now it will be revealed to you, that the original quest developers were long ago each given a phrase from the Necronomicon to encode in their quests as an unused message string.
There are things out there that even a dead man should fear to be unleashed upon the world.
Last edited by Glenn the Great; 10-23-2012 at 11:16 AM.
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