Known issue: Empress Cygnus bosses

How come the hackers are always able to come up with these things within days or even hours of the version-up, and under black-box conditions at that, while Nexon's own people can't imagine what is possible while having the code open to them?

It is VERY likely this was done the same way as last time and it got unpatched with the v112 update.

So essentially, all three tickets received proper, detailed responses. That is definitely... new. Just wondering - who were the GMs/CS staff that replied? Because it really seems as though they either hired some brand new, very effective ones, or suddenly decided to change their customer service policy from "this is proprietary info" to "let's actually discuss the issues". There's a couple new names on the Nexon forums, too, so just wondering if it's the same people on both fronts.

GMZinyden answered all three.

I don't think it was item generated Lisa stop worrying xd

Nexon responded really fast to this
at least they're not like this anymore:

At least kirby could read that and get stuff done.

This Items are mostyle Generated and u will Receive a Ban without a Notice:



[B]Rare Chairs

A Rank Nebs

Decent Skills Nebs

Boss DMG Nebs

Lidium Hearts

Empress Stuff

Masks
[/B]

Since when nexon have. A new developer team oO

It's not exactly a stretch to say that in nearly 10 years most of the original devs are gone.

This Items are mostyle Generated and u will Receive a Ban without a Notice:



[B]Rare Chairs

A Rank Nebs

Decent Skills Nebs

Boss DMG Nebs

Lidium Hearts

Empress Stuff

Masks
[/B]

inb4 mass innocent bans.

We will be performing an unscheduled server maintenance on July 1, 2012 to address an issue involving hackers generating items, which also involved summoning the Empress Cygnus boss in towns.

Thank you for your patience.

-Time-
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Pacific: 10 AM - TBD
Eastern: 1 PM - TBD

-What will be unavailable-

All MapleStory game servers

This Items are mostyle Generated and u will Receive a Ban without a Notice:



[B]Rare Chairs

A Rank Nebs

Decent Skills Nebs

Boss DMG Nebs

Lidium Hearts

Empress Stuff

Masks
[/B]

hamad when you post things like this
can you please cite your sources

This really has me worried... if my dual bowgun was illegally generated, it's going to be taken away from me.
I really think it was from the marvel wheel, though...

this isn't 100% guaranteed to ease your worries, but if your weapon was not perfectly average, then that means it's not generated, if it IS 100% average, it may still have been a drop or a marvel thing (since, like you saw, a lot of people got those too)

good luck!

I thought the huge influx of weapons came from marvel wheels.

most probably, since there were loads of 130 weapons and such, the 140 canes... not so sure.

It is VERY likely this was done the same way as last time and it got unpatched with the v112 update.

remind me in short, what was the last time's "trigger" so to speak? i think it was something with the wheel of marvels? never got any confirmation and it always left me curious

inb4 mass innocent bans.

those perma lidium hearts are annoying though, they were trying to sell fully scrolled ones for almost a thousand dollars, i want them gone, just so that anyone THAT stupid to pay for one gets his ass whupped

[UPDATE 1:15 PM] The maintenance is expected to last until approximately 3:30 PM Pacific (6:30 PM Eastern).

[UPDATE 1:15 PM] The maintenance is expected to last until approximately 3:30 PM Pacific (6:30 PM Eastern).

And Basil's front page is instantly flooded with repeat threads of this same message.

this isn't 100% guaranteed to ease your worries, but if your weapon was not perfectly average, then that means it's not generated, if it IS 100% average, it may still have been a drop or a marvel thing (since, like you saw, a lot of people got those too)

good luck!

The shop we bought the 140 bowgun from had lots of stuff you can get from the wheel of marvels including some stuff NO ONE wants like the 2h blunt weapon and I saw none of the A rank nebs or anything suspicious in the FM so I'm 99% sure it was legally obtained. Nido is hardly ever affected by these big exploits anyway lol.

It was perfectly average, though, no Empress has been summoned outside of her actual map in Nido afaik.

Guess we just have to cross our fingers on this one, so much legitimate work was put into farming all the scrolls and she has waited so long to get that.

remind me in short, what was the last time's "trigger" so to speak? i think it was something with the wheel of marvels? never got any confirmation and it always left me curious

Well, it was from the maple admin who exchanged skill books (A very well known..expert("cam") stated this)

Basically what went down (without getting into detail) is you could exchange anything for anything.

The reason I believe this is what's going on again is because they brought this system back with the revamps for night lord and shadower skill books. A few people also saw this coming I guess as you can see by the maintenance now. I'm extremely impressed with how fast they dealt with this though.

Also (off topic)

lol couldn't figure out how to mention on SP

lol couldn't figure out how to mention on SP

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Well, it was from the maple admin who exchanged skill books (A very well known..expert("cam") stated this)

the first line would have sufficed, thanks man, guess it had nothing to do with the marvel wheel like i had heard

[MENTION=9288]LykaBawss[/MENTION]; i wouldn't worry then, the shop sounds legit enough

those perma lidium hearts are annoying though, they were trying to sell fully scrolled ones for almost a thousand dollars, i want them gone, just so that anyone THAT stupid to pay for one gets his ass whupped

Wow $1000??? @_@

Who on earth would do that.... And why? <_<

Wow $1000??? @_@

Who on earth would do that.... And why? <_<

they were 700k nx for one with a few less attack, crystal one i think, and 970k nx for alidium heart 63 attack.

if you go by dollar:NX ratio it's more like 700, but still

they survived the purge, which was the most facepalming part.

those perma lidium hearts are annoying though, they were trying to sell fully scrolled ones for almost a thousand dollars, i want them gone, just so that anyone THAT stupid to pay for one gets his ass whupped

Personally I think it'd be funnier if they just reset all hearts to a max of 2 weeks on the clock, and let them watch their $1000 slip away

Personally I think it'd be funnier if they just reset all hearts to a max of 2 weeks on the clock, and let them watch their $1000 slip away

i do too, but i'm not sure nexon even knows how to do this (look at the PB chair event, in which they didn't make them permanent.)