Server Emergency Patch: Dupe Fix

[Rogean]

Many good suggestions. Some are already in place, some will be put in. Backend logging and flags are things I have been working on for quite some time now.

[Villide]

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Many good suggestions. Some are already in place, some will be put in. Backend logging and flags are things I have been working on for quite some time now.

Thanks Rogean, the efforts of you and your crew are greatly appreciated!

[Uthgaard]

I won't go into detail about all of the methods I personally use to keep tabs on things top of the server detection, but yeah. We've got you covered.

[YendorLootmonkey]

I always figured the server kept track of roughly how much currency was in the game at any given time. Considering currency only enters the game via quests, vendor sales, or mob drops, and only leaves the game via destroying coins, vendor purchases, or quest turn-ins (trading stuff for plat doesn't impact the total currency in game, it just shifts the distribution of it across characters, so you wouldn't need to track this)... it should be easy to track this "rate of net currency increase" in the game and what the average rate is.

Have red flags go off when the net currency increase jumps way beyond that rate within a given time period. That would give you a pretty good indicator that currency entered the game via a dupe, because it seemingly came out of nowhere. Or if particular mobs were dropping an abnormal amount of plat after a patch.

[rachel]

I knew that guy Sport/bonssum? that was offering 600k+ for the rbb/cof.
I thought to myself how the hell did he get that much plat?
Than I thought maybe his guild disbanded and he sold his guild bank.

It sucks because it's hard for me to make 1k a day.

Thank you all for catching him! It sure seemed fishy to me.

[Dantes]

Originally Posted by nalkin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

lol why would he hold such a conspicuous amount of money? Why not just hold like 200k or something half-way believable? There must have been some logic behind this... these are the details I crave Rogean.

This was my first thought too. 21 million plat? Who the fuck will need 21 million plat EVER? And he denied it? I wonder what his story was? "I earned it. All 21 million, check the logs, I have 50,000 hours played."

Maybe he messed up some little mundane detail like he put a decimal point in the wrong position.

[Fawqueue]

Originally Posted by Lyrik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If I may, I'll translate this:

In case that person makes it back I'd like to ask them how they did it.

I think you'd have to be an idiot to read this post, KNOW that they have systems in place to identify these problems, KNOW that they've thus fixed it, and still think "Hey, maybe I'll try this out myself!"

I just wanted to know who it was, so that if I did know him...I could tease him mercilessly because he was a dipshit =P

[Engraverwilliam]

once i figured out a way to solo multiple drovargs in karnors by using a pathing issue on live. I gained 4 levels doing this. After which I was feeling so guilty I remained paranoid for the longest time tht some GM would show up while I was out hunting and say "remember that time in Karnors?" cheating only cheats yourself.

[yraapt]

Glad to hear the dupers got banned!

I have zero knowledge of the emu code, but it seems like there could be a way to track when players repeatedly do the same steps XYZ over and over again. Seems like this would trigger for both dupers and auto macro stuff. Although I'm guessing the devs would have already done this if possible... that or they are already doing it and we just don't know. lol

[ryuut1]

wow, 21 mill plat. that's ...too much.