Talk:Market Forecast/@comment-77.97.189.104-20120831231521/@comment-5116140-20120831234246

Not a good idea!

In some games like World of Warfare, your account is simply terminated if you are caught tampering with the in-game files. There, it is considered more serious because you would be ruining the game for other players. Probably TV is a little more lenient.

The MD5 or Unique Identifier (those 32 hexadecimal digits you see) makes tampering extermely easy to detect. There is no change you can do that wont go undetected, unless you have a dedicated array of computers designed for the purpose of arranging a hash collision between the original file and your modified file. That is very hard to achieve except for those with serious crytography training. It used to be considered impossible.

I do not know what would happen if you just remove the latest market file. Presumably, it would detect that and just replace it again when files are reloaded at start-up. If you are game to try that, please report back, we would all be interested.

No guarantees your account will not be terminated.