Addressing Serious Hacking Issues

Though the worst issues the lame arse hackers create isn't about exp and leveling. It isn't even the meso botting. It is the bloody posers that act legitly but dupe their hats off when they can or buy from said guys. That is what ruins the economy and make any form of competition meaningless.

True, but I was talking about what GMs can do while programmers are (hopefully) working on changing the way the database works so that channel crashes don't result in duped items, and similar deep-seated issues.

Also, "any form of competition" includes competition for exp and levels. Especially in new servers, like this upcoming Chaos one, but also in older ones.

Finally, botters might not hurt the economy (what economy?) too much, but their effect on player morale is huge. Most players are blissfully unaware of duped white scrolls or 27 att shoes, but when they see the same botter at the same map day in and day out, or blatantly ks'ing them out of their training map, they know who's in charge of this game. And it isn't the mythical GMs or Nexon. Makes people far less inclined to eschew hacked goods or avoid hacking or at least abusing glitches.