2011-03-28, 07:53 AM
SaptaZapta Wrote:If I understand correctly, fixing the channel-crashing-dupes-items is nearly impossible, since it's kind of built-in to the way the MapleStory database works. Preventing channel crashing ... harder even than preventing the various spam dc hacks.
There is no built in reason for a game server to ever crash based on the actions of a player, ever. That sort of thing can always be fixed.
Likewise preventing item duplication is fairly easy as well for any halfway competent DBA (which they unfortunately lack, but point still stands).
They could easily add a purge-all-items-with-duplicate-ids query to their weekly maintenance checks even. A lot less incentive to dupe if both the original and the dupe are going to be wiped regardless of who has either.
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