[terrum]

Originally Posted by fysiks So I guess, based on the restrictions you've noted, there is no good solution. Though, I've seen some "fake time" libraries that might be able to give a running process a fake time (on Linux).

I've considered using faketime as a last resort, but because the server runs on, effectively, an uneditable docker image it would be super hard to get faketime installed on it.

I just thought that, similarly to the 'game name changer' plugin, there would be some simple function that could be injected by the plugin to make the server think it was a different time. (The 'game name changer' plugin uses functions such as FM_GetGameDescription, FMV_STRING and FMRES_SUPERCEDE)

Another option would be to have the plugin somehow activate the birthday/christmas mode(s) instead of having it inject the date/time.

[fysiks]

Originally Posted by terrum I just thought that, similarly to the 'game name changer' plugin, there would be some simple function that could be injected by the plugin to make the server think it was a different time. (The 'game name changer' plugin uses functions such as FM_GetGameDescription, FMV_STRING and FMRES_SUPERCEDE)

Well, the concept of date/time is a well known thing that is provided by lower level APIs so it's unlikely that a game developer would want/need to abstract that concept in the game.

Originally Posted by terrum Another option would be to have the plugin somehow activate the birthday/christmas mode(s) instead of having it inject the date/time.

Orpheu is able to call functions that weren't capable of being called before so maybe one of the functions you need could be called by it. You'd have to find the function in the game and then have someone generate the necessary files for configuring Orpheu to call the function.

[terrum]

Originally Posted by fysiks You'd have to find the function in the game.

I assume that would be nearly impossible without source code.

And I'm terrible with 'reverse engineering' software such as HEX editors and memory scanners. Although Cheat Engine has something that can detect change in memory.

Either way that would be beyond my knowledge unfortunately, hopefully someone that has a little more know-how with this sort of thing can help.

[Moody92]

Alright, you can host your gameserver in a virtual machine inside your host. That'd enable you to modify the date & time without tampering with your main host.

[terrum]

Originally Posted by Moody92 Alright, you can host your gameserver in a virtual machine inside your host. That'd enable you to modify the date & time without tampering with your main host.

No, that's far too extreme of a measure and takes far more resource than necessary to accomplish such a small thing.

[tarsisd2]

Have a look at this
https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=91915

Might help you in some way

[terrum]

Originally Posted by tarsisd2 Have a look at this https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=91915 Might help you in some way

Not really, as I'm far from a coder, and all that seems to do is convert real time to UNIX time and back. I don't think it will offer any sort of help in terms of what functions need to be found, correct me if I'm wrong.