Oh, look! ANOTHER new exploit!

You're actually wrong yourself, too.
The people you think of as hackers, the ones running around abusing the game, no, they likely wouldn't.
There's an entire pool of people out there who have the skills, often far better than the script kiddies in fact, who don't use them because they understand the wrongness of it who would be quite happy to hop in to a test server and figure out where the gaps are if they knew doing it would actually make the game better instead of hurting it further and that they wouldn't be punished for trying to make it better. Those are the people who Nexon could in fact pay bug-bounty to and improve their games by working with.

It still isn't what tespia is. While this would be a good idea, Nexon isn't doing it.

How either side feels it should be done is all that's relevant, how either side thinks it IS done is not.

What? How do you come to this conclusion? When did our dreams for Nexon become the topic?

It still isn't what tespia is. While this would be a good idea, Nexon isn't doing it.

The point was never about what Tespia is, it was about what it could be.
The sentence that started this discussion was "Done the right way, Nexon could use incentives to motivate hackers to improve the game.", clearly not in past nor present tense.

If you're talking about the community and tespia participants, no, officially they aren't. hurrdurr. If you're talking about people in the employ of Nexon, then that isn't any sort of hacking, "white black or grey," triple hurrdurr.

They aren't; they could be.
My apologies for assuming that you have the capacity to understand such a suggestion.

LOL! You actually think hackers players that are already not playing by the rules will turn a new leaf and be good? hahahahaha

No, I'm suggesting that they can be bought.

Also nexon can not pay te amount of money hackers make while using hacks. Max mesos on many account,selling mesos,godly items, and still being able to be legit? You really think hackers will give up that luxury for 100k maple points? You sir are delusional as pineapple

No, you're ignorant as pomegranate.
You're putting all hackers under one bubble. Not everyone who creates exploits sells them.
Also, not everyone who has the capabilities to create exploits creates them.

If testers are enticed to find the potential exploits first, then that preempts the seller's ability to make money off of that potential exploit.

You are not getting it still

Hackers will NOT tell nexon what exploit they found. Yes, nexon wants you to find problems, but not problems where it requires you to to use third party programs. You are not suppose to be using those methods in the first place! i believe this is what octo is trying to tell you. Tespia is used to test new content that is coming out. Also why should someone hack on the test server, those hacks might not actually work on the live server where it count the most.

And, if they don't report, then nothing will have changed. No loss.
You're pretending that authorizing it on the test server will somehow make it worse on the live server.
That's nonsensical.

I dare you to give one example of a hack that would work on a test server but not a live server.

You're actually wrong yourself, too.
The people you think of as hackers, the ones running around abusing the game, no, they likely wouldn't.
There's an entire pool of people out there who have the skills, often far better than the script kiddies in fact, who don't use them because they understand the wrongness of it who would be quite happy to hop in to a test server and figure out where the gaps are if they knew doing it would actually make the game better instead of hurting it further and that they wouldn't be punished for trying to make it better. Those are the people who Nexon could in fact pay bug-bounty to and improve their games by working with.

THIS! THIS ENTIRELY!

The point was never about what Tespia is, it was about what it could be.
The sentence that started this discussion was "Done the right way, Nexon could use incentives to motivate hackers to improve the game.", clearly not in past nor present tense.

AND THIS!

God, I love people who bother taking time to comprehend what's being said.

The point was never about what Tespia is, it was about what it could be.
The sentence that started this discussion was "Done the right way, Nexon could use incentives to motivate hackers to improve the game.", clearly not in past nor present tense.

It's the same as saying if Tespia weren't Tespia, Tespia wouldn't be Tespia. Why is that a discussion at all?

And the post "heard round the thread" so to speak was actually not about this "discussion" at all, according to the person who posted it.

And to think if they used Tespia correctly a majority of it could be avoided.

I was referring to all the crap they fucked up this patch, no necessarily this exploit. But honestly, they should at least be on to the patterns of the hacking community to know how to not build events because they'll just get exploited.

They aren't; they could be.
My apologies for assuming that you have the capacity to understand such a suggestion.

Hmmm... lets see it looks like i was quoting... oh gosh something specific. Also did i catch the post i quoted before a (hasty) edit? It kinda seems like i did.

Neither. It's a packet sent through the client that makes the item appear in your inventory without having to do sh*t.

Sure you aren't a hacker yourself? Or do you roam the hacking forums because you have nothing better to do?

Do we really need a new thread for every exploit? Why not sticky a thread and the complainers can just complain in one thread.

Do we really need a new thread for every exploit?

Yes. Increased awareness increases probability of fast response.

Sure you aren't a hacker yourself? Or do you roam the hacking forums because you have nothing better to do?

Do we really need a new thread for every exploit? Why not sticky a thread and the complainers can just complain in one thread.

People who like to know how games work, like me as a developer, may know something more than you do. I'm not a hacker and yet I know how stuff works. It's actually good if you know how certain things work so you can report them as a legitimate player.

Yes. Increased awareness increases probability of fast response.

Not to mention saving us from wasted effort (lolrollback) or risking a ban in a few cases.

I wonder if Nexon includes the Banwave of these exploiters the next server check already, because scanning for them in the database logs is really easy.

It's just sooo easy for Nexon to check for this, just check logs if people who have a critical ring + db blood mask + evan onyx glasses, leveled up on that account on any character 240 times, between the start of the chaos patch and the time they got all these items, if not => permban.

Really easy and quick...

Also, really stupid to use this obvious exploit, hacking on your main account... lol... scriptkiddies... :')

Doesn't matter how easy it is to track, this is Nexon we're talking about. <_<