The Super Ore Mine Hack has been known for a while by many
people--probably from the day the Super Ore Mine came out. It's not
hard to figure out if you know how to interpret the game's client/server
communication using a proxy like Charles.
The Super Ore Mine allows you to build the four ores that are not your
"natural" one. For instance, if you can naturally build copper, then
the other four ores would be aluminum, uranium, iron, and gold. The
order of these four ores are used in the game for certain things like
quest requirements, military contract costs, and the Super Ore Mine.
The Super Ore Mine Hack modifies the amount of resources that Super Ore Mine contracts give out by changing the multipliers.
It's
also possible to get ores that you haven't unlocked for the Super Ore
Mine in the game yet, as well as oil, wood, and coins! (I don't think many people know about the coins part.)
For this hack, I assume you know how to use Charles
Proxy. If you don't know how to use it but don't have the motivation
and dedication to learn how to use Charles properly, then hacks like
this are not for you!
Keep in mind that I haven't played the game much lately. I built the
Super Ore Mine just for this hack. I haven't bothered to unlock all the
resources or multipliers beforehand.
I suggest you learn how to perform this hack
quickly and get yourself a reasonably large amount of each ore, wood,
oil, and coins. Zynga may patch this hack quickly, but they probably
won't take away your millions or billions of resources (if you
don't act stupidly by bragging about it openly). Don't be too greedy or
you may run into problems with the numbers for your resources.
If you are learning this hack for the first time, first try hacking the
first ore in your Super Ore Mine--skip steps 5 and 6 below.
Step 1 - Preparation
You should have a Super Ore Mine built so that it's possible for you to
start a contract for at least one resource. It's not necessary to
unlock all the resources or multipliers. (It may not even be necessary
to unlock any of the resources, but I haven't checked that.)
Have the Empires & Allies game loaded.
Load Charles Proxy. Make sure breakpoints are set for the
"flashservices" folder of the URL
"http://fb-client-zc.empire.zynga.com". DO NOT set it on the Zynga URL
itself.
Step 2 - Enable Breakpoints in Charles and Refresh Game
Enable breakpoints in Charles by pressing the red hexagon. This tells
Charles to intercept and pause all requests from the client to the
server and all responses from the server to the client.
Refresh the game. (To avoid stray requests & responses, you can
refresh the game first and then enable breakpoints in Charles. You just
need to time it correctly, which shouldn't be too hard since it takes
the game so long to load.)
Step 3 - Find "initUser" Response
There may be stray requests or responses that came from before you
refreshed the game. You need to be able to recognize these and abort,
cancel, or execute them to make them go away.
After the refresh, the client sends a request with the function
"UserService.initUser" to the server to load the game. Execute this
request. The AMF response will be very large. It contains a lot of
data that the server sends to the client to tell it how to load the game
with your settings. The response looks like this:
Step 4 - Edit "unlockedResource"
Under the "data" folder, look for "unlockedResource". In this folder
are all the resources that you have unlocked for your Super Ore Mine.
The following image shows only aluminum because I haven't unlocked the
other ores yet. It shows a "1" because that is my current multiplier
and I haven't unlocked higher multipliers yet.
Double-click on the "1" (or whatever integer you have) to edit it.
Change it to a large number such as "99999999" WITHOUT quotation marks
(or commas or periods). Pick a number large enough so that you don't
have to purchase too many contracts later on. Don't use a number too
large or you will get an error message in Charles. I used eight "9"s;
nine "9"s would be too many.
If you are skipping the next two optional steps, then execute the
response and turn off breakpoints in Charles. If you are doing steps 5
and 6, do not execute the response yet.
Step 5 (Optional) - Edit "unlockedResource": Continued
This step and the next step are to hack ores that you haven't unlocked
within the game, as well as oil, wood, and coins. If you want to
produce large amounts of an ore you have already unlocked in the game,
skip these steps.
Double-click on the resource name ("aluminum" in my image/example) to
edit it. Change it to the resource you want to hack. You need to do
this if you are hacking oil, wood, or coins.
If you are hacking another resource at the same time, edit the lines for those as well.
Step 6 (Optional) - Edit "resourceOrder"
Open up the "userInfo" folder and then the "world" subfolder.
Look for the "resourceOrder" subfolder:
The image shows the four ores that are not your "natural" one, but you
might not have all of them unlocked for your Super Ore Mine.
You need to edit a resource that you have already unlocked for your
Super Ore Mine, either within the game or through hacking in the
previous step. If you have more than one resource unlocked, you can
edit more than one here. As an example, I will work with the first row,
which starts with "[0]" and happens to be for aluminum for me but may
be different for you.
First, click on the "String Reference" on the first row and change it to
"String". Double-click on the name of the ore on the first row to edit
it ("aluminum" in my image/example, but it may be different for you).
Change it to the ore that you want to unlock, or to "oil", "wood", or
"coins". (If you have more ores unlocked for your Super Ore Mine and
want to edit those, go ahead.)
The resource(s) that you hack here should correspond to the resources that you hacked in the previous step.
Execute the response. Turn off breakpoints in Charles.
Step 7 - Contract Purchase and Collection
Let the game load. Click on the Super Ore Mine. You will see something like this:
The numbers for the resources you see in the contracts are the base
numbers multiplied by the multiplier that you entered in step 4. Select
the shortest-term contract, "Weighted Wealth", which only takes 15
minutes to complete. There may be a way to shorten the actual time you
need to wait, but I haven't investigated that.
DO NOT refresh the game before the contract completes. To be safe,
don't do anything else in the game so that you aren't forced to refresh
the game. (If you must do something in the game, at least don't visit
neighbors or engage in battles.) If the game is refreshed, all the
settings you edited will default back to the settings saved on the game
server and you will have to repeat the edits.
When the contract completes, collect the resource from the Super Ore
Mine. You can see the resource amount updated in your resources bar at
the top of your game screen. (You need to expand the bar to see all the
resources.)
Repeat the contract purchase and collection for the same resource as
many times as you want before refreshing the game. However, you should
have chosen a number large enough in step 4 so that you shouldn't need
to purchase more than one or a few contracts.
Step 6 - Repeat
If you want to hack other resources, repeat steps 2-7 for those other resources.
