I am currently writing a game called ByteSpy which is a horror/puzzle game which takes inspiration from a few other games similar to it.
It is a hacking game which (as a pentester my self and a cybersecurity nerd) will be as accurate as possible when it comes to certain things.
For example I am writing the hacking part of my game which will utilise false (hopefully) IP Addresses however seeing how roblox moderation can be unpredictable and uses a horrible AI I am starting to worry that I could have my game (or account, maybe both) terminated.
Below you can see a mock of the console which displays the avalible target IP addresses which will be used to distinguish between each target.
I also have an IP inside of the main menu which is not to do with targets but including here as it is relevant.
(Do excuse the / at the top ip, I was thinking of adding ranges but decided not too)
roblox is quite lenient with their rules so I don’t think this is much of a problem. I also find this game idea interesting, it kinda reminds me of hacknet.
I have been on the platform since around 2012/2013 (This account doesnt prove it as I lost my first account </3) so believe me when I say it can be unpredictable sometimes especially with ip stuff.
I watched a game called Welcome to the game when I was much younger and liked the idea of it. Ive posted alot of the development progress in creations inside of hidden devs. I might make a blog or dev log on here eventually to gather influence and attraction.
I don’t recommend doing that because of the moderation hypersensitivity to IP addresses and overall quality of their work. Remember that you can risk a ban/termination if you implement it.
Are you opposed to using an invalid IP address format? That would probably be okay. Everything else could be as accurate as you want, but removing the potential for IP address concerns would be easiest by just not using the standard IP format.
For example, valid IP addresses are four segments of digits ranging from 0 to 255. Just change that up a bit maybe, three segments of 255 to 511, or something along those lines. It’ll be close enough but impossible to use a valid address.
I wouldn’t chance it with the moderation team. Especially if you plan on doing DevEx, as a good standing is required for that.
This would be my answer too, but to go one step further: make the IP addresses seem as convincingly fake as possible, that there’s no way moderation would even think you’re putting out someone’s IP address out there.
Ive went ahead and done this, I have made every IP have 3 (or 4 forgot) digit decimals instead of the usual standard. I originally wanted to make it technically correct but I forgot how this platform can be around the most basic of things.
It hurts my little cyber heart but it must be done if I dont want to be terminated for no reason by the trashy moderation system. </3
