blackknight8653

HAha why did you decide to change your name?

Welcome to the forums. Is that you Panth3r? I just realised you changed your name on both F|A forums as well as here.

Sorry for the late reply. It seems that unlike your first post where I got notified about your reply. I did not receive an email informing me of your replies this time until I checked the post again. Thank you for your help. I will take a look at it

I see, Thank you for taking your time to explain this to me. Appreciate it

That must be what I have missed. Sorry. I was just doing a quick test hence, did not delete my etkey beforehand. I thought there would not be an additional check added for etkey since there was already a silent key. Thank you Purple. I will go try it again. I apologise as this may be off topic. I am curious how etkeys are being generated from website like etkey.org. Are the etkeys consist of different random numbers? I was unable to find a written documentation on how it works and whether the numbers generated are random or an encrypted version of the et guid which you can find from /cl_guid. How do websites like etkey.org or similar websites ensure that the etkey they generated are different from each other and are different at all times. As for things like et guid (similar to silent guid), sorry if this sounds stupid but when I open etkey with notepad, they showed random numbers at first I thought they would be how the et guid are being read off directly but after doing some checks, they are actually different so I thought they might be some encryption involve. This question came up as I was thinking whether it is possible to easily display my own guid without launching Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory such as et guid, pb guid, etc just by reading some files. I am not really good at programming as of now, I am a beginner at this point, and only am curious hence, learn a little on the Internet whenever I have free time. I apologise if some of these questions can be answered through reading source codes released by Splash Damage or other developers. I am still not experienced enough to understand all programming languages such as C++ yet. Thank you. Appreciate it. Edit: I tried the method you said and deleted both etkey and silent.dat and it works. Thank you Purple for the help.

I have a question with regards to XPSave on silent mod. I have been thinking about how XPSave works for silent mod. If I remembered correctly, after Evenbalance stopped supporting Wolfenstein:Enemy Territory, a new solution to solve the problem of etkey generation was introduced for silent mod. If I am not mistaken, silent mod uses its own key instead of etkey for XPSave which is used by mods such as jaymod and noquarter. After doing a google search and also on this forums how the system works, I was unable to find much information (Sorry if there actually is information on this but I missed it.) except an old comment by hellreturn on http://www.moddb.com/mods/silent which states: http://static.moddb.com/cutoff/images/default/error_50x50.pnghellreturn Jul 6 2012, 4:54pm replied: U don't need etkey. silEnT mod has in build mod based key for xp saving and other uses. Punkbuster is not even supported by EB anymore, so i suggest you disable PB on your server. And also in the silent mod wiki in this website: userdb.db is a binary format file that contain all the required information about shrubbot users and also all saved XP if the server is set to save XP Based on these two information which I found, it seems that unlike etkey which is client side, silent key seems to be server sided and is stored in userdb.db in the silent mod server filesystem. In the ET Directory, I only manage to find silent.dat which I thought was the silent key but when I delete it and enter the server, my XP is still saved and silent.dat is regenerated in the silent mod directory. In this case, silent.dat is not where the server reads the silent guid of a particular player to determine the XP and admin level of the player. If that is so, how does one backup their silent key which the silent guid is saved or start fresh without doing !resetmyxp when connected to the server. Is there any client side method similar to backing up the etkey and deleting the etkey from the etmain directory? Thank you. Appreciate it.