[Complete] Unscheduled Maintenance - May 3, 2013

So...this maintenance was done why? There was even a volunteer from Nexon posting at Basil to confirm that this maintenance was supposed to fix this problem completely.

Seems like all it did was to remove Lux and add in the mounts. The mounts are nice but get real Nexon, your players are going to be wary of doing anything if you don't step up your game since no one wants to chance getting rollbacked.

Warning, there are still infected players in game. Server is up but characters are still infected. Don't click on others. Nexon didn't fix pomegranate.

Okay seriously? Wasn't that what this entire fucking USC was about? Nexonnnnnn

I'm dumb.

Please take it down the servers again though.

Everything is lagging horribly too. ._.

Warning, there are still infected players in game. Server is up but characters are still infected. Don't click on others. Nexon didn't fix pomegranate.

In what world?

Okay seriously? Wasn't that what this entire fucking USC was about? Nexonnnnnn

Yeah I saw a cannonneer in FM with a cane on saying he's still a Phantom wearing a maple cane. I didn't click on him out of fear lol

Im still a Phantom, this is stupid. I was looking foward for the 2x drop event [MENTION=10355]Girasol[/MENTION]; help please?

Edit: ^ That was me @ FM

Warning, there are still infected players in game. Server is up but characters are still infected. Don't click on others. Nexon didn't fix pomegranate.

lmao. 'Oops'.

All this maintenance did was make us lag

lmfao this game

need to fix the source. however these hackers are getting NPC summon bags/commands/whatever needs to be blocked.

Apparently this method has been out since before phantom release..? Or at least variations of it

All this maintenance did was make us lag

These are my sentiments, setting up shop is hilaribad: Place item in store. Read some Southperry. Item shows up in store. Place another item in store. Compose reply in thread. Item shows up in store. Place item in store. Play a few turns of Ecol. Item shows up in store. Place item in store. Flip keyboard.

These are my sentiments, setting up shop is hilaribad: Place item in store. Read some Southperry. Item shows up in store. Place another item in store. Compose reply in thread. Item shows up in store. Place item in store. Play a few turns of Ecol. Item shows up in store. Place item in store. Flip keyboard.

It takes me atleast 45 seconds to equip an item, it's stupid.

Oh god, I thought this lag was just me.

*Clicks box*
Tick... tick... tick...
*Reward*

I CAN'T LEAVE ARDENTMILL EITHER JESUUUUUS

I'm in Empress and I can barely move. There's like 50+ adv Knight E on screen lol

I don't know about you guys, but this is the kind of time where I'd call the server going down again soon even if they just put it up again. Everything points to it.

Anyways it wasn't lagging right when the server went up. The lag started a few minutes in.

So...this maintenance was done why? There was even a volunteer from Nexon posting at Basil to confirm that this maintenance was supposed to fix this problem completely.

[MENTION=10378]Curtiss[/MENTION] Who if you mind me asking.

And this entire exploit is really out of control. Nexon doesn't realize that the hackers attached a server-sided function to infected players. T-T

@Curtiss Who if you mind me asking.

And this entire exploit is really out of control. Nexon doesn't realize that the hackers attached a server-sided function to infected players. T-T

Maryse from the Nexon forums. Man, I thought I got the wrong person but here you go:

I'm looking into this. Though I can't do anything, but I'm taking names.
Got a few names, if you have more PM me them on Basil (Marissaurus), since we can't put names on these forums.

Please do not put the names of the people responsible for this, instead PM me on Basil so I can forward it ASAP!

Source

On Basil:

To fix the "Changing people's job to Phantom" hack as well as fixing people's jobs.

TBD = To Be Determined

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Wait, they did what!? I would like to say that's fantastic but that's more scary than anything else. @_@

edit: fail wrong tab/thread ._.

Maryse from the Nexon forums. Man, I thought I got the wrong person but here you go:



Source

On Basil:



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Wait, they did what!? I would like to say that's fantastic but that's more scary than anything else. @_@

Ah alright, Maryse is fine she was just trying to calm down the thread.

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To explain what likely occurred today. There are hundreds of commands inside the MapleStory client that are normally only known by Nexon staff. While most of these commands can not function without an "admin flag" (meaning the command handler internally checks if you're an admin, if not nothing happens), there are still dozens of commands that can be used by any player which allow for administrative controls, including setting server-sided functions to players. The player in this case likely knows how to access these commands which is easily done if you know how, and found how to parse it correctly. He's basically connected the character information window to a function that makes any "infected" player run a function to change the player's character class to 4th job Phantom.

There are many other reasons for this happening, although because of the likely high level hacking that was needed to accomplish this, it worries me that if Nexon does not make a massive effort to effectively remove all un-commented commands or add more checks to existing commands, that more harmful actions can happen such as making clicking a character give someone a permanent ban.

Hopefully there will be another maintenance, if not I honestly forsee this getting really bad. Players will continue to infect each other until there is a major need for a rollback.