2010-11-10, 04:36 AM
@ray: Actually, I was thinking more about people who spent Monday and Tuesday training or questing or trading tokens - or, worse, scrolling and cubing their gear - and really truly gained nothing from this exploit, directly or indirectly.
And, yes, also people who had left their shops open with normal prices, and came back to find them sold out.
BTW, I don't know how it was in Bera, but in Kradia, the exploiters were quite selective in what they bought. I looked through FM Tuesday morning and there was plenty of junk (scrolls, 2-lined rare equips, zombie rings, etc) still there, most of it not even overpriced.
@Fiel: They should have taken the servers down Monday afternoon. That doesn't take long and doesn't require 24 hours to prepare. They did it last time. This time, nobody there noticed anything amiss.
This doesn't even take into consideration the fact that the possibilities of abusing the double-login feature(?) had been raised weeks ago, including tickets logged, and ignored.
As for finding and patching the glitch: since it's public that shouldn't be too hard. At worst, they can restore the "account already logged in" check, even if it means some people can't play until the next maintenance, as an interim measure until a better solution can be found.
And, yes, also people who had left their shops open with normal prices, and came back to find them sold out.
BTW, I don't know how it was in Bera, but in Kradia, the exploiters were quite selective in what they bought. I looked through FM Tuesday morning and there was plenty of junk (scrolls, 2-lined rare equips, zombie rings, etc) still there, most of it not even overpriced.
@Fiel: They should have taken the servers down Monday afternoon. That doesn't take long and doesn't require 24 hours to prepare. They did it last time. This time, nobody there noticed anything amiss.
This doesn't even take into consideration the fact that the possibilities of abusing the double-login feature(?) had been raised weeks ago, including tickets logged, and ignored.
Quote:I don't see how it's possible to only punish those involved. This is simply the faster method to get the game back up and running, and that's what players ultimately want.I agree. I was only saying some people had hopes, or maybe illusions, that less drastic measures would be possible, and their recent accomplishments (levelling, scrolling, etc) would be preserved.
As for finding and patching the glitch: since it's public that shouldn't be too hard. At worst, they can restore the "account already logged in" check, even if it means some people can't play until the next maintenance, as an interim measure until a better solution can be found.