TC Bulletin and Policy Change 10/18/09

[Uli]

Originally Posted by Yhor

Did you edit the .lua or just read it? Assuming you're talking about Lua script, it's an exploit used to get Jedi faster either way.

Everyone hunting to get jedi would have to be banned from this statement.

A lot of people check LUA's for the spawn locations & timers.

[Valkyra]

Originally Posted by Uli

Probably by the sounds of it as long as you do not use it



Sosko would not know how to DoS attack anything.
He can however download a slightly modified executable of Ventrilo which causes people to crash which is not a DoS attack at all.

It may not be a DoS, but it's still highly disruptive harassment in the form of force closing ventrilo clients.

Not to mention how he joined IRC about 10 times through proxies spamming links to a questionable download that could very well be a malicious backdoor trojan, and then shouting highly offensive obscenities.

[Ashur]

reading the luas IS NOT an exploit, LMAO!

[Lazerbrick]

Originally Posted by Ashur

as i said, im not gonna be ON the team. when i saw that people didnt like the idea i knew right then that i wasnt the right man for the job.

well if your not gonna be on the team, then i guess they can re-ban then since that was the reason of un-ban.

[DraGa]

Originally Posted by Yhor

Did you edit the .lua or just read it? Assuming you're talking about Lua script, it's an exploit used to get Jedi faster either way.


V
Then explain the following, is it not true?



^ This is the reason for a lot of the outrage, you were given special treatment, a name change. Who else gets a name change? If you did nothing wrong, as you say, then why apologize at all... why was a name change needed, and finally, why come in this thread and give more reason for those already pissed by your actions to protest more?

You have the potential to be a decent guy, I've seen it. You really need to work on anger issues though, and stop being so damned defensive when you know you're wrong.

My issue wasn't with you, it was with the decision to give special treatment, you just happened to be the recipient. Don't get that confused.

+3 Internets for you sir.

[Valkyra]

Originally Posted by Ashur

oh you are talking about the jedi thing you went and told everyone on stk and didnt want anyone else to know about so that STK would have jedi but no one else would?

btw nice work putting a jedi trainer at the jedi ruins, was real hard to find.

A. I wasn't even online when an StK member unlocked, or even at the computer. I was at an appointment, I told this to kyle.

B. I wasn't responsible for the locations where the jedi trainers were. Dame was, and I did that ON PURPOSE so I wouldn't know where they were.

Nice try, but get your facts straight next time.

[Wolverine79]

Originally Posted by Benoki

lots of people seem to keep missing the whole IT'S A TEST SERVER thing.

yeah its nice to play again, totally agree, loving it myself.

so it doesn't really matter to me if people get caught hacking.

its the ones who don't get caught that bother me.

and if a guy does get caught, tells us what he did and helps us fix it, then thats good for us all on that hallowed day that a full server goes live.

right?

why the fuss people?

If they doing it here they will be doing it on live. These people have been caught and allowed to cont. to do so now. They are friends with devs and gives them a get out ban free card. Enough said!

[MarlonB]

Originally Posted by Uli

Everyone hunting to get jedi would have to be banned from this statement.

A lot of people check LUA's for the spawn locations & timers.

Pfft ... reading Lua's is old ... @spawn is much faster

[Uli]

Originally Posted by Valkyra

It may not be a DoS, but it's still highly disruptive harassment in the form of force closing ventrilo clients.

Not to mention how he joined IRC about 10 times through proxies spamming links to a questionable download that could very well be a malicious backdoor trojan, and then shouting highly offensive obscenities.

i cant argue against those statements

[STiBS84]

Forgive me, I'm new 'round these here sanddunes, but... are you folks seriously saying that you're upset about hacking and exploitation on a TEST server? In the real world of beta-testing, that just doesn't make sense.

Why on Earth would you be punishing people for exploiting, hacking, and otherwise helping to identify problems with the software on a TEST server? If this was a LIVE server, fine, but from what I've seen around this community, a lot of people need to get their heads out of their butts and understand that "TEST SERVER" means exactly what it says. If it was up to me, I'd do a mass-reset of the character DB once a month just to remind people that this isn't a live server, and they're no business expecting anything other than bug fixes and gameplay improvements.

Crap like this can only serve to help slow down development and demoralize the entire team, I'm sure.

... and I bet I just made myself a whole bunch of enemies. Welp, back to my day job! :P

[MarlonB]

About time someone with some power here steps in .... again ... damage control is needed.

Delete thread ... post a new one without the mentioning of Ashur ... and keep it under control.

[jermat]

wolverine the main point is so that noone will do this on live

[Zecke]

at first plz stop calling em hackers they just cheater/scriptkids nothing more. if y need more infos about the definition of a hacker read ..

click me

me too

and me plz

Originally Posted by Kyle

Of course we do.

ok if y have 1 then let the sploiting kids test there so i dont have to deal with them again!

[Cilraaz]

Originally Posted by jermat

wolverine the main point is so that noone will do this on live

But to ensure that nobody does it on live, you need an exploit team devoted to actually finding and fixing exploits. You don't need people who have been banned multiple times for using exploits for their own purposes.

[jermat]

they should never been banned in first place