Mana and Items are locked down in the simulation. You cannot retrieve that information.

But you can get the info about their gold...

As a note, the competition League of Legends has this ability built into the game. It would definately change how the game is played since people will not only counter character builds, but would also be able to counter item builds. I agree that if one person has the mod and the other players don't it is pretty much cheating. But one could also say anyone can install UI mods.

I've tried contacting them quite a few times. I have yet to even receive a "Hey!". This is why I am starting to consider a more extreme measure...This needs to be looked at, and something done.

I didn't get a replay, but I did do a game with random people online. I told them I was just testing something, and ended the game as soon as I verified the exploit was working. Currently I am at the parents for christmas, and my laptop can't handle the game, so I can't show you anything/create a new replay. I'll be back jan 1st.

I have only told a single member about it though. Since you know them, you should know how easy it would be to replicate this mod if I even posted the replay though. As soon as someone sees what it is, they would most likely be able to replicate it anyways.

So, yea. I think you can see now how sticky it has become...I've been going over this for several months now:(

Currently, I am thinking when I get back on the first, I will send off another round of messages to support, sorian, frogboy, etc to try and get it looked at. Then we can set up a game for a replay if you want.. If another week goes by, post the replay and what the exploit is ( Though not how to do it. Atleast force any exploiters to figure it out themselves. ) and see what happens from there.

My personal recommendation to stardock/gpg: Disable UI only mods until a more appropriate fix can be found ( if 1 can be. )

Thanks for replying now. I do understand if there is nothing you can do, however: I would have appreciated a reply sooner along these lines. On my end, receiving no reply at all, appears the same as ignoring me. I will continue to hope Stardock can help out now then.

Again, thanks for the reply.

It's a very straightforward tweak. ( I did run into it trying to do another mod. ) If I said what it did, it would take people probably less than an hour to figure it out and make their own:( This is why I have been so reluctant to say anything about it so far.

You do know that it was Christmas vacation and people do have lives right?

Zechio, I got literally thousands of emails a week and hundreds of private messages a day. I don't even have time to begin reading them all let along responding to them all.

If you want these sorts of things addressed, you do have to go through the actual official channelers which you did eventually -- support which in turn forwarded to the development team where it was put on their schedule.

I have asked GPG to look into seeing if they can protect the game from malicious mods even if it means having to eliminate mod support entirely (which is an option). 

I can't speak for GPG but I know we have little intention of spending time and money fighting malicious mods. If mods turn out to be a problem, they'll be eliminated entirely.  Not enough people care about mods to justify the potential of mods ruining the online game experience through griefing. It makes a lot more sense to get rid of them than to spend engineering hours chasing the latest mod exploit.

Is that a good enough answer for you?

What would happen is we'd just have to remove modding period in all likelyhood. The game would do a CRC check and fail to load if it the python scripts loaded didn't match.

If someone can find a way to stop an exploit and help us on that, that's terrific.

"

Zechio, I got literally thousands of emails a week and hundreds of private messages a day. I don't even have time to begin reading them all let along responding to them all."

And yet you've made 2 posts already saying that you aren't a troll? I mean. If like, literally 80% of your PMs consisted of a subject header "DIE YOU TROLL" that would make more sense but still... you took the time to read those. That said, it is easy to lose one PM in the masses.

Finally, zechio is talking respectfully and has been a contributor to the forum. I don't understand why you're having such an impatient and curt tone ("Is that a good enough answer for you?" "that's terrific") when it's clear he ISN'T being disrespectful and doesn't really want to release the mod: he just wants someone to respond and he'll do what he needs to do so.

It's not like he is your subordinate or anything like that nor is he some 12 year old on the internet trying to cause trouble. He's a contributor and even if you don't feel that way, he has improved this game.