How to Prevent Players DC-ing you in FM?

I was able to snag a decent spot yesterday after the servers went back up in Channel 1, FM4. I use a regular store permit.

A couple of odd things happened. Firstly, some guy came and just put in "@@@@" etc in the chat window of the store over and over again. He didn't buy anything. Secondly, two people were in the room and one of them said to the other "just watch, I'm going to dc her" or something like that. Overtime, more and more Mushroom stores took over the regular stores around me.

I thought nothing of it and I went to bed. I woke up to find that I had disconnected from Maple. Now, my computer has pretty good specs and my internet connection's tends to be pretty stable. I can stay in Maple for days without disconnecting usually.

I'm just wondering whether that was just a coincidential disconnection I had or whether someone was able to actually disconnect another player? It just seems a bit suspicious to me, especially since many of the mushroom stores in the room when I logged back in had the same shop name.

welcome to the wonderful world of the FM, where you get a mushie or get your ass DC'd hacked.

thankfully it seems that the worse DC hacking methods are quite restricted, but people still cant DC you with the @ spam.

I dont dc even with them spamming @@@ all the time just lag bad. doesn't matter since I'm away from the game anyway. Now getting into ht another thing in bellocan with one guy taking over ht for himself.

Mushies are iffy because it's hard to make back the profit for the cost of the mushy. Merchants just typically use mushy reset on their 1-day mushy anyway =/

Mushies are iffy because it's hard to make back the profit for the cost of the mushy. Merchants just typically use mushy reset on their 1-day mushy anyway =/

which is the worst part of it all.

There are indeed methods of disconnecting other players, but they require the use of hacks. The person in your store was using an extremely primitive version of a DC hack that simply spams a message over and over until it eventually overloads your computer's memory.

DC hacks? Well that's disappointing to hear. Like there isn't enough hacking as is. Thanks for the heads up.

DC hacks? Well that's disappointing to hear. Like there isn't enough hacking as is. Thanks for the heads up.

It's been around forever and you most likely wont' get a ch1 spot on the bottom row of rooms because of it. I try to avoid it and stick to 7-2x if I decide to stay on ch1, or just start at ch2fm2 and work my way across till there's an open spot.
Short of setting up your own "hacks" to counter it they'll get you at some point is the disappointing thing.