Are there any weird glitches going on with trades

 Extremely off topic counter-argument

A hash value test isnt the same as putting everything server side. A hash test can be fooled, quite easily. You can either have the client send the server a lie, or just have the client agree to everything the server asks it. Either way, it's not a decent solution because the process can be hijacked and false information can be inserted into the communication channel.

Putting everything server side in the first place would've made them virtually unhackable, yes, which is why having the client serve as nothing more than a dumb terminal for the game is the Best Practice. Unfortunately making a change of that nature is virtually impossible without breaking compatibility and interopability with all the other MapleStory's out there, not to mention an administrative nightmare for the staff who'd have essentially rewrite it from the ground up, and that drastic shift in the processing load (which today is predominately done on the end users machine) to the servers would leave their current world's hardware setup way underpowered more than likely. You think Maple has lag issues now, imagine it's current hardware trying to do all the combined work that every player's PC does today.

While Lunia being all server sided does help with the hacking it does not stop everything. I played lunia from CB and it was all server sided then. It didn't stop people from PEing. I remember they used to do them quests where you deliver a letter to a stage and it was instant repeatable. The PEers would just stay in square and send the letter from there over and over. I will admit, CB and OB pretty much had no gameguard or whatever at all. But people can bypass that anyway.
On another note having everything server sided has a lot of down sides. And they can be extremely anoying down sides at times.

More on topic thought its funny that you should mention Lunia in a thread about trading seeing as Lunias trade setup used to be the worst around. People were so easily scammed without them doing anything.

Both replies are so interesting, I really wish you guys were in my server.
I am really aware of everything you both guys were saying. It was just a quick example of : whatever the problem is a solution could exist, question is the cost.
first I really I had a smile on Evilince reply about trade set up in Lunia, i totally agree with you, yet it was funny how they screwed that up.
Anyway for instance the solution they found for Lunia could definitely not be used for MS, as EOS said, it is totally impossible MS switch to a totally server side game, unless they would go to a real drastic redesign of all the software. And also a strict hash-code test can be totally bypassed : the guys we are fighting against are at least equally if not more smarter than GameGuard tech guys. I mean I'm a IT managing director in a software company and I am very well aware of this very issue because it's my daily work. Solution is very costly: weekly (at least) change heavily crypted processes to check client files/memory heap access/ etc.. It's impossible to drop to a 0% hacking possiblity but it's possible to lower it a lot more than it is right now : it's just that the Nexon business roadmap isn't hurt that much by this effect so why should they care and spend extra $ on it.


P.S. english isn't my mother tongue and for such a long post I probably did a few grammar and spelling mistakes, please spare me