White Christmas Hill Event Ruined

This is similar to what we did in OdinMS to handle vac claims. Have a GM drop a rare item in a way that looks like it came from somewhere naturally (usually one of our non-GM or secret GM characters), and see if that person vacs it. Or, like what happened during a few GM events, when hackers think they can get away with it just because they're hiding in a crowd of people all after the same item, we drop a unique item in a place that's impossible for normal players to reach, see it get vacced into the crowd, and ban the person with that item in their inventory. It was simple to do, but I really don't think they have the manpower or time to moderate like this. The hackers don't care if they're banned either, because they're most likely using mule accounts for snowflake farming anyway.

Odin was run by people who were competent, and also had access to the DB.

If you're stuck on a GM account that can basically look at characters and choose to ban them, there's not much you can do to detect vacs.

The problem with automatic systems again comes down to "don't know how the game works" - if you put it in a place regular players can't go, but forget about WH mounts, or recoil shot, or teleport... well, regular players get banned.

Or just rework this retarded event into something that hackers can't ruin, because everybody has their own individual opportunity (rather than a single communal one for hackers to urinate into)