Change online players! Tricks server lists!

[Skionz]

I have just finished writing my 'FakePlayers' plugin and am distributing it. Basically it allows you to modify the servers properties when it is pinged as shown below

It is fully configurable. The config is shown below:

Fake players: true
Add real players: true
Online: 100000000
Max players: 3

# Fake players must be false for this to work
Hide players: true

# Others must be false of this to work
Display text: false
Text: '&9Some text'

And some proof of what you all want. It does trick server lists as shown in this picture:

I believe the server is still at the top here: http://minecraft-server-list.com/sort/PlayersOnline/
But it will probably be taken down for obvious reasons. If you buy this plugin you should use it smartly and be subtle about your fake players. Note that this plugin requires ProtocolLib which is a library for packet use. It will not effect your server at all. It also is a Bukkit/Spigot plugin, not a bungeecord plugin.

More proof: http://minecraftservers.org/server/192312

Need more proof that I made it? Your not going to get any because I feel like I have given enough.
Skype: skionzmc
Price: $5

 

[K3Feedz]

Lmfao you can do this with animatedmotd and that plugin costs $12.

 

[Skionz]

Lmfao you can do this with animatedmotd and that plugin costs $12.

I don't believe it can trick server lists.

 

[K3Feedz]

I don't believe can trick server lists.

Whats the point of tricking server lists. You won't achieve any players lmao

 

[Potrock]

Vouch Copy?

 

[Skionz]

Things like this have always been around, and unfortunately this won't work on the majority of server lists. Find a way to trick minecraftservers.org without editing the core jar (otherwise it would be super simple) and I'll be impressed. But that aside, this is extremely unethical and if you feel like you want to be the one guy in the minecraft community nobody likes because you operate your server in such a condescending and unethical manner, be my guest, but keep it to yourself and don't release this to all the 8 year olds who will be fooled into buying this so their shitty little server looks big. </rant>

It works on minecraftservers.org, but it looks like they max the online players at 40000 which is smart. http://minecraftservers.org/server/192312 It is pointless on here since there is no top online players ranking.
There is only one way to ping a server so if you modify the replying packet there isn't much they can do to stop it. It also looks like people are attempting to join the server. It is whitelisted, but it says that they attempted to join in the console.

 

[Skionz]

Alright, still though, people who would use this would obviously have a shitty server because they can't get players to stay thus motivating them to purchase this. If the server is shitty, even if this does draw players, they won't stay and it would be an obvious hoax once real people join the server and realize nobody else is online. Can't imagine it would take very long before your IP banned from the server lists as well. GLWS.

Those are the kind of people I am targeting

 

[Potrock]

Vouch Copy?

 

[Skionz]

Vouch Copy?

What is a vouch copy?

 

[Potrock]

What is a vouch copy?

To build up vouches on MC-Market, you give out free copies for people in return for vouches.

 

[Skionz]

To build up vouches on MC-Market, you give out free copies for people in return for vouches.

I would rather not. If you would like a demo, you can come onto this server: 192.99.38.169:40092
I only have it for two hours since it is a temporary gratis server.

 

[Synic]

I find to be very interesting. I have some suggestions to improve the plugin.

So I remember that in the plugin called CombatTag, an NCP would spawn called "PvPLogger1" upon someone logging out during combat and in the server list (press TAB), "PvPLogger1" would show up.

Now, maybe if the user enters in a number such as "50" for the "Online:" part in the configuration, 50 NPC (Steves) would spawn in random locations throughout a specified region.

How would the specified region be determined? Similar to worldedit, a player can get a wand via command, and select two points to form a square region. Then the user could type in a command to map the region into the config. All the NPCs would spawn randomly in that region.

In addition, if the user right clicks the NPC, he or she would type a command like "/npc setname <name>" to set the name of the NPC. The name would also appear in the TAB list. That way actual players who go on the server don't become suspicious.

Although, you could probably leave a note for the user to not have the player limit be above a certain amount (if NPC spawning is enabled) otherwise the server could crash or something.

Also, the other con to this is that all the NPC's would have steve skins which would be pretty suspicious. Unless, you space them apart well enough.

I'm not sure if some of these ideas are possible to code but I guess I'm just throwing it out there just incase it is!

Once again, great job with the plugin!

 

[Skionz]

Synic Thanks! I believe I could do this with Citizens API which would allow skin changing too. I also might write an algorithm to create the illusion of players logging in and off. Basically you would specify two integers, the minimum online players and the maximum. The online players would gradually increase or decrease while staying in-between those numbers. I think that would be a good idea, but it would be hard to make it look realistic.

 

[Synic]

Synic Thanks! I believe I could do this with Citizens API which would allow skin changing too. I also might write an algorithm to create the illusion of players logging in and off. Basically you would specify two integers, the minimum online players and the maximum. The online players would gradually increase or decrease while staying in-between those numbers. I think that would be a good idea, but it would be hard to make it look realistic.

Yes, I would agree it will be difficult haha. But as a fellow dev, I know that no matter how difficult something is, we get through it. I like the algorithm idea you have mentioned as well as the different skins! This would definitely give more of a realistic effect. Wish you all the best on future development of the plugin.

 

[Justin]

The plugin would be better if you could make a max and minimum and every minute it went down or up a little bit. This would make it a lot more realistic when players are not online.