Salutation, travellers.
For those who want to craft items most effectively I’ve made a simple calculator.
It provides the order of affix enhancing and shows total success probability for the whole crafting. It also determines number of Stability Glyphs to be used for best result.
Here is a link: Releases · Freingard/Last_Epoch_Crafting_Calc · GitHub
As much as this could be something cool to use, running things like this locally is a security issue…
Although I see that you have provided your source code and it can be checked, I personally have a serious aversion to running random exe files from unknown sources…
Sorry… appreciate your efforts and you are unlikely to be trying to drop malware on us, but people need to be wary of just trusting unknown code/users on the net.
That is cool, but security issues asides which makes me wary as well as Vapourfire, would you not be able to create a very similar tool on a spreadsheet?
You can use your antivirus just to scan the file before downloading just to ensure there are no viruses. Or you can download the source code and compile it by yourself if you are not trusting your AV protection.
There is not only .exe file but also *.zip for you to ensure the downloaded file will not harm you PC right after downloading.
Also your can scan file with a bunch of online services. Smth like https://www.ipqualityscore.com/threat-feeds/malicious-url-scanner/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FFreingard%2FLast_Epoch_Crafting_Calc%2Freleases%2Fdownload%2Fv0.8.3%2FLE.Craft.Calculator.exe
@VAPPOURFIRE: FYI not only random executable files can contain viruses but also any website can contain harmful scripts inside. So I’m interested why don’t you have serious aversion just browsing the internet =) Nevermind. Just kidding.
@POX: I’m not sure the spreadsheet allows to use scripts to realize Dijkstra’s algorithm and some other essential calculations. But if so there is no difference between actual executable file and spreadsheet with scraipts inside. Both can bring to life absolutely the same things to your PC. Moreover unknown spreadsheets with scripts are more dangerous because it’s just easier to hide harmful code inside them.
AVs will not find anything custom or hand coded until its reviewed by the AV people - i.e. you could write code that does nefarious things that no AV would see until reviewed…
Code review is definitely important - but if you obfiscate the code only someone with a high level of knowledge of C would be able to notice exactly what its doing.
I do… and am very careful with random websites - I run all my browsers in strict modes, disable javascript most of the time etc… I use VPNs and even other things if I am unsure of the destination or just random browsing. I never download anything without proper testing - I wouldnt run your exe on my normal day to day system before testing it in a virtual machine with no net access etc…
I am probably pedantic & overly security conscious but I dont know you and I dont trust you… I wouldnt expect anyone else to trust any app I developed either…
You’re are totally wrong(at leat in that case). Anyone with base knowledge of any C-like language can look through the code to ensure it does not use any files or network connections. The code is rather short also(less than 1000 lines for all files) so it can be easily done.
Just curious: are you also running every game you bought on steam in a VM?
Your choice. Just don’t use any open source =)
How many people playing games have programming knowledge that would be able to tell what is happening ? Just removing line breaks from C code is enough to scare a layman from seeing what is going on without spending hours going through it…
No, but I do make sure that they are vetted by some reputable source and I dont tend to run game that have less than a few thousand users… If I have any concerns, I will run the apps/games on a separate machine that I do not use for personal information like banking so there is nothing to “steal” from the machine.
Look… I have trust issues and you defending your app is not going to change that… I make educated informed decisions about what I will and will not download, run or use from the Internet… I dont expect anyone else to follow my example, but it would be naive to at least not be wary of running applications from anyone on the net.
I’m an IT security guy.
My first reaction is: unknown EXE, I don’t have the skills and knowledge to ready the code and maybe compile it by myself… it’s a no go for me.
I have strictly nothing against the author, it’s just my basic reaction.
If I add to that several posts in the forum from people who use the EXE, some positive feedback from a large number of various people, that could change my mind.
I know I can miss lots of good software like this, but it’s ok.
Unfortunately there is no other way than making an executable to provide this calculations.
Maybe the things will be changed with the next game update.
At least I can post the results of calculations in this topic if you wish. Just post the item you have and what affixes do you want to craft =)
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