Coin Exploit

You know, people in this thread have a good point; you know what happens when kids are playing and one keeps cheating? They stop playing with him and that lonely kid learns a good lesson.

However, online, people just won't stop playing with them. So that lesson never applies.


Its at the point now,where I once detested the idea of using my SSN just to play a freaking online game, I'm now somewhat willing if it would mean being able to play a much less hacked game since every hacker and 'gold seller' would be perma-banned by SSN.

Yeah who's got the balls to fake those and get caught?

Haha, we had the same idea it seems. I was in the middle of typing this up in another thread but came to check this thread out cause it seemed like a more fitting place to post it:


Have registration require matching names & social security numbers, which would be verified somehow. Then ban by social security #. Since it would require a working SSN with a matching name, it's not easily faked. Stop auto bans and have bans by SSN issued only via GMs directly. That way we wont have any of those ("omg unfair auto bans").

BUT since people want to have multiple accounts.... allow for multiple accounts to be created under the same ssn/name. If a bunch of people all try to use the same ssn, and one of them is a hacker, then every account under that ssn is banned. This would discourage players from letting others use their ssn (which would be outright stupid in the first place anyways).

There's no reason someone should be getting your ssn in the first place. And if the person is dumb enough to give away their ssn to random ass websites (instead of the usual giving away usernames/pwords) then it'll affect more than their internet life. So hopefully that will discourage a good number of people from being complete idiots. Ssn would only be asked for at account creation (https webpage) and entered via softkeyboard like PICs so the person shouldn't be typing it over and over and get it stolen via keyloggers. The SSNs would not be stored in an online server but would be in an offline computer updated by transfer (as in taking new account names/SSNs and transfering them over via usb or something). Mostly done to prevent database hacking and having your ssn's stolen.

I onno, something like that. There'd be tons more to it.


It fixes:
Hackers making other accounts just to hack on and get off without punishment
Banning wrong people
IP bans being bypassed by changing IP/Mac address.

It requires:
1)Work on nexon's end (reason #1 why it wont happen)
2)Hiring GMs to be on at peak hours to ban hackers
--The time needed for them to remain on would decrease as more bans by SSN are issued. After all, not like you can just fake more SSNs with matching names.
3)Actually banning hackers
--Interesting theory on this end... nexon higher ups might actually want hackers. During the events when hackers cause the mass deflation of items... certain people rush to buy nx to buy the necessary CS items to make use of the cheap items. Other people start selling WGs/other items in the MTS for cheaper to get nx quickly... this causes people who like to buy cheap MTS gloves with actual nx to rush off to buy nx to rake in the good deals from people desperate to get nx. Also, people start buying nx for higher ratios. It all sounds rather nice for nexon. People are pissed off sure, but they get to rake in quite a bit of money.

But then again this is just rambling on my part. I'd say I dont particularly care... but somewhere deep inside I still kind of do... kind of. But for the most part, I'm just sitting back and watching the game collapse little by little. And unlike a few people, I'm not gonna be constantly complaining about how much the game sucks or anything.... because it doesn't in my eyes. I really do hope something good happens in the future. I look forward to it really. But in the mean time, I've got myself occupied with other things anyways.

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Guess I do need to be a bit on topic...

So I logged in a few days before the coin exploit hit big. Managed to get myself 4 chaos scrolls rather quickly. I was gonna save up a bunch more to make myself an awesome lvl 120 mech engine. Alas... fail hits D:

Had an extra 400m on me, so I could've bought a ton and mass scrolled engines before the game got taken down... but I knew that that wouldn't be right and would be asking for trouble.