Grepolis Hacks and Cheats

The game Grepolis has just recently been launched after a successful testing phase. During that time the game was test played by a small group of players who tested and tried out the various features and game play. The one thing that is often overlooked during these beta testing stages is issues of flaws or workarounds in the game. Some people refer to these as hacks or cheats.

MMORPG games often have some sort of flaws in them. Some speculate that the game developers leave backdoors into the games or special èaster eggs`in the `games, however it is more likely that most of these flaws are simply due to poor programing.

You might recall several high profile games which experienced duping of game items. Basically when a game runs in combination on a game companies server and also on your computer there is information packets which are exchanged between your computer and the game server while you play. One of the tried and true methods used to hack and cheat at these online games is to intercept these data packets as they come to and leave your computer. By intercepting the data packet, altering its content, and then sending it back on its way, it returns to the game server with whatever information you want it to carry.

Sounds complicated? It is not.

Grepolis has just launched its first Alpha world and within days a second Beta world. (this is a horrible name for a 2nd server as it is confused with the original betatesting world). There will no doubt be some who quickly intercept and decode the data travelling to the game server. I have an interest in this sort of thing and will be participating as much as possible.