Preventing Crash exploits

[cyan tartan]

Hello, I need some help and insight on roblox crash exploits. I‘m talking about scripts that can be executed by exploiters in game, not IP grabbing and DDOSing roblox servers. I haven‘t played roblox in ages and I‘m not involved in the exploiter community so I don‘t even know if these types of exploits are still around, however I‘m making a game and that genre is (atleast was) pretty notorious for people crashing servers.
How do these scripts work and how can they be prevented?
I know of exploiters spamming characters in the chat and that this type of crash exploit can be prevented by checking the message length, are there anyother ways?
I tried finding scripts online to see how they work, however most of them just look like scripts that crash the client, not the server. Didn‘t want to register/visit any shady sites.

[lucid owl]

The best way to get rid of exploiters is to get rid of the things that can be exploited, if nobody can gain anything from crashing the game, then 99% of the people who might have, won't crash the gain, because they'd gain nothing from doing so.

I didn't even realize it would be possible to crash the game from the client, then or now.

[cyan tartan]

It was possible. Don‘t know if it still is. I can‘t get rid of the exploiters intention, as that used to be „rival“ genres that were/are exploiting other games to gain more players for their own game.

[lucid owl]

What genre if you don't mind me asking?

[cyan tartan]

Game of thrones

[lucid owl]

Oe

I haven't watched but 3 seconds of GoT

[lucid owl]

Reminds me of them mobile game ads lmao

[cyan tartan]

I haven‘t finished it either 😂

[alpine acorn]

I think Don’t use character script or something, or spawn something when the character’s spawned.
exploiter can have a script to exhaust the reset character function

[alpine acorn]

The way to prevent crash is to not being crashable😅 I don’t think that’s really an advice

Check the message length too, exploiter can use message to crash server

Over sending thing

[cyan tartan]

Could you please explain this more?

[alpine acorn]

I remember there’s a devforrum post on this

Let me see

[alpine acorn]

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/server-crash-exploit-patch/1160886

[alpine acorn]

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/lets-talk-about-attributes-valueobjects-and-instances/1918761

Alright

That’s all

[cyan tartan]

I knew about that one already

[cyan tartan]

But this one was really useful, thank you!

[alpine acorn]

Np 😉

[cyan tartan]

I‘m still wondering if there are other ways for crashing the server though, I don‘t create instances on character spawn. Instances created from the client wouldnt affect the server right?

If cloning/instance creations are spammed from the client it would just crash themselves

Spamming remotes maybe?

[alpine acorn]

Have cooldown?

If they spam to much just kick their ass

[lucid owl]

My advice wasn't to not be crashable

My advice was not let them gain from crashing the server.

e.g. if there's a duping exploit, fix it, and the number of people who are crashing your game will go down.

[alpine acorn]

So basically can translate to be not crashable in your mind but okay

[lucid owl]

That doesn't translate to "don't be crashable" it translates to "prevent exploits, regardless of type"

[alpine acorn]

If you prevent everything then you would be uncrashable does that make sense now😅

Like you give a solution to prevent exploit is to prevent every exploit

So I paraphrased it

But still if it translate to prevent exploit then it still not a good advice because why advice a person who want to run to run?

I’m not trying to have any arguments here but just mind it, you’re still better than those who ignore

[lucid owl]

Thanks, I try to be I guess

[lucid owl]

We can advise them on how to run though, running wrong can permanently damage your body.

[lucid owl]

It's quite hard to give advice on something I know very little about, but our teacher told us to ignore the troublemakers, because they make trouble for attention, so it seems to me, that if someone does something because they want something, not giving them that something will make them stop, or at least reduce their tendency to make trouble.

[alpine acorn]

Yes🤔 but sometime it not just ignoring, We can’t always endure, like if human are good at enduring maybe slavery is still a thing

[lucid owl]

I guess that's true

[alpine acorn]

Nice chat goodluck on your road

[lucid owl]

💀 What road lol

[alpine acorn]

Road that you’re on, Road to your dream

[lucid owl]

I'm sorry you think I'm on a road, I don't particularly like cars, I'm more of a boat person.

[alpine acorn]

😅 Then your sails

[lucid owl]

Or the river?

Or, we call it the way

Like the Chinese did

[alpine acorn]

This just a metaphor

[alpine acorn]

🤔

Where are you from?

[lucid owl]

The USA

[alpine acorn]

The way?

Not so poetic

[lucid owl]

The Dao

[alpine acorn]

You mean taoist?

[lucid owl]

Not exactly but it gets the job done.

[alpine acorn]

I’m a Vietnamese so my description will be close to Chinese one lol

[lucid owl]

Why is it that I find people from all over Asia in just about every Discord Server I'm in?

[alpine acorn]

Because American are busy doing their tiktok dance while we are grinding here

And the education that you guy being given lol

[lucid owl]

I guess.
I've always found TikTok to be quite dumb, along with most social media

Like get up and talk to someone, we have mouths for more than just eating y'know.

[alpine acorn]

Is that true about the stereotype stuff?

Like American think African is a country?

💀

I mean USA media is kinda self centric they don’t broadcast other culture and stuff

They think they’re the best but if they keep going this way they won’t be anymore lol

[lucid owl]

Oh

I've never met anyone thought that Africa is a country, but yes, some pretty wack stuff does happen here.

Like my German teacher once talked about how she had a student that thought Germany was in Africa