I was wondering if participating in this could get my account banned or something like that

I doubt it. Even if we crack the code, it can't be used for cheating.

Here are my findings...

Paragon / nothing... no skill points spent... res signet moved around

Slot 1 - AJAAIAAAAAAAAAAA
Slot 2 - AJAAAgAAAAAAAAAA
Slot 3 - AJAAAAACAAAAAAAA
Slot 4 - AJAAAAAAIAAAAAAA
Slot 5 - AJAAAAAAAgAAAAAA
Slot 6 - AJAAAAAAAAACAAAA
Slot 7 - AJAAAAAAAAAAIAAA

I didn't get the last one saved right, but my guess is that it would be...

Slot 8 - AJAAAAAAAAAAAgAA


What does this all mean? I don't know!

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Well, the code looks like its pretty simple. Now to figure out what all the bits mean.
The 'String' is Base64 encoded.

Using some of Nemi's templates, and decoding them gives you (in hexadecimal)..

Elementalist / Ranger; no attributes; no skills
'AmAAAAAAAAAAAAAA' -> 02 60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Elementalist / Ranger; 1 point in Air Magic; no skills
'AmEAGAAAAAAAAAAAAA' -> 02 61 00 18 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Elementalist / Ranger; 2 points in Air Magic; no skills
'AmEAKAAAAAAAAAAAAA' -> 02 61 00 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

You can see the air magic attribute increase.

Elementalist / Ranger; no attributes; rez sig in slot #1
'AmAAIAAAAAAAAAAA' -> 02 60 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Elementalist / Ranger; no attributes; rez sig in slot #2
'AmAAAgAAAAAAAAAA' -> 02 60 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

You can see the rez sig move over a slot here...

Just as a guess, the first '0' is a template version number
The '2' is Elementalist.
The '6' is Ranger.

Next 3 digits are a description of what follows in the rest.
Shouldn't be too hard to figure out from there given a few templates (and knowing what they are supposed to be)

Can anyone suggest a good freeware program to encode/decode to hex? Don't like using the online versions I've found

Software isn't good at cracking codes... It isn't fun either :P

I want a decent util to convert the string to their hex values, not to figure out what thoes values mean.

Excelent work Amaranth! +rep for you

I was going to try decoding it into hex today, but I didn't realize that base64 was a standard! Any one notice any "special" characters in their templates aside from alphanumeric characters? There are 2 characters left over to represent, (26 + 26 + 10 = 62) "+" and "=" are most commonly used, but I haven't seen them yet.

I'm using this converter to convert to hexadecimal.

That is a PvP Elementalist (Prophecies if it matters), with an incremental Fire level. (there may be 2 more As on the first row, I was copying rapidly and may have missed them)

In each level after 1, the 5th character goes up by 4:
G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i...

Pretty clear when converted from base64 to hex. We have a value thats just going up by one each time.

I too added a point to Amaranth's reputation... that info basically cracked the code. The rest is just deciphering the information.

I think the next step should be to catalogue the rows. This will really give insight into future expansions. Obviously, there's a fixed amount of spots here. That means there cannot be an infinite amount of skills. The limit on decimal placeholders could be the theoretical limit to the number of skills we can expect to see in the future.

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