TC Bulletin and Policy Change 10/15/09

[Max]

Originally Posted by Fierce

What if you do it unintentionally?

They have the ability of appeal. It is pretty hard to intentionally speed hack, however. Anyone who finds an item dupe or exploitable bug should report it ASAP.

[Malas]

Originally Posted by Max

They have the ability of appeal. It is pretty hard to intentionally speed hack, however. Anyone who finds an item dupe or exploitable bug should report it ASAP.

Then what about those who has been using the food/drink bug, to be near invincible. I assume you have banned them aswell? If not, then this zero tolerance is just bull****. Exploiting bugs is just as bad as speedhacking. You gain an advantage over everyone else.

[Dngrzne91]

Thumbs up... this is exactly what needed to be said and done. There is no room for this kind of BS especially on a TC. Great job and keep up the good work.

[Aeden]

Originally Posted by Malas

Then what about those who has been using the food/drink bug, to be near invincible. I assume you have banned them aswell? If not, then this zero tolerance is just bull****. Exploiting bugs is just as bad as speedhacking. You gain an advantage over everyone else.

There's a major difference between exploiting omnipresent known bugs while they last and working hard to CREATE new exploits.

There are degrees of severity. For instance, all the consumables (food, drink, buffs, etc...) of the game replenish after server reboot. Everyone on the server knows that and benefits from this bug and even though it creates a hole in the economy, it can't be considered an exploit. It doesn't make someone OP (the way duping items does for instance )and it will hopefully be treated soon.
Each case must be treated individually. Stricter punishments doesn't mean generalizing penalties and lifting the ban hammer on every moving player.

Speed hacking on the other hand requires the player to install and fiddle with third-party programs or tools. It's a completely different level of action.
And no matter the whining and justification you may add to the discussion, it is now a first category offense. Live with it.

[Phase]

Originally Posted by Aeden

...There are degrees of severity. For instance, all the consumables (food, drink, buffs, etc...) of the game replenish after server reboot. Everyone on the server knows that...

Er...I didn't know that

Heck, I don't seem to know much about food and buffs anyway.

Also, while I like the new update deal, I am mildly worried about the speedhacking issue alongside my connection, which is quite lossy at times. What would happen if to me the game was running fine, but on the server and to other people it looked like i was speedhacking? That just doesn't seem too great from here

[Uli]

Originally Posted by Max

They have the ability of appeal. It is pretty hard to intentionally speed hack, however. Anyone who finds an item dupe or exploitable bug should report it ASAP.

You mean its pretty hard to Unintentionally speed hack

[Kayliaah]

Wow wow wow.

I don't know if I'm the only one but that post freaked me out.
It really shows how much the STAFF is pissed big time because of these cheaters and I understand the post but it freaks me out I don't know why.

I really HOPE this decision hasn't been taken simply because of what the community asked, I really hope it doesn't change the Devs' mind about finding a way to prevent hacking instead of just super banning people, don't get me wrong I agree that hacking for your personal gain instead of testing hacks to show the system's breaches and reporting it (I guess it happens) is nothing but utterly stupid, I just don't understand the need for certain people to cheat at all, even if they don't do it to screw people, sometimes they might just do it for themselves.

Once again it really shows how much the Devs are pissed with all this "sudden" hacking (not like it has just started, it went more popular in the last few weeks.), I'm sure they were also pissed because of the hundreds daily complains on the forums and decided to take the policy to a new level, much good may it do us.

Anyway, I don't know what happened since this (my) morning, so I assume some people got banned?
Well I will see if I find any black name...


I just would like to point out this rule again.

3.11. You will not perform AFK camping of a spawn, NPC or cave. Camping is defined as repeatedly hunting a lair, spawn or NPC in succession. TC allows multiple accounts and connections, therefore using multiple toon instances to create the effect to "out damage" other players is considered AFK camping. There is only one toon actually operated by a single player and all successive toons are considered AFK camping. All toons in such instances are subject to disciplinary actions. Obviously, this camping rule does not restrict all multiple game instances. For example, it is acceptable for two game instances to be operated by one player where one instance is an AFK crafter sampling ground resources and the other is a character that is being played At The Keyboard.

I still don't get it, it has to be a mistake or I must be really stupid.

Originally Posted by Uli

You mean its pretty hard to Unintentionally speed hack

What happened to your name..?




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