With the recent increase in patched executables and DLLs circulating I was thinking about writing a binary patcher library, which can be included with Freelancer and patch the binaries at runtime.

This way no one has to redistribute any binary files anymore and additionally this will work with any version of the exes and dlls.

What do you think about this? I would do it along the lines of my FL real economy addon and use XML scripting for the modifications.

I am fully aware of the MP issues, e.g. this could also be integrated with MP, so that an MP server could control, which changes are allowed and which changes are not allowed. There are a lot of possibilities here.