market bug using development server - crime and punishment

[Forum]

it has been brought to my attention people were abusing the development server, in order to gain unfair trades on the market.

The following players --who clearly traded on both dev and main server - have lost covert levels equal to the quantity of trades they did on the development server market.

This list will also act as a 'have been warned about abusing bugs is illegal' list, wherby account deletion (as stated in the rules) will be looked at for future abuses.


6426
8634
10526
11962
13782
14389
15959
22083
22325
23167
24650
24991
26377
26900
27039
27693
27999
31048
34402
40013

[SSG EnterTheLion]

just how I like it!! punish the ********.

[chunkysoup]

whats the development server lol?

and 6426... thats jtest10... now im just freaked out

[SSG EnterTheLion]

whats the development server lol?

and 6426... thats jtest10... now im just freaked out

well that's for admin to know .

and 6426 was used to test the exploit. that's why it's there.

[chunkysoup]

well how come i didnt get invited!!!

[Mango]

I am one of those players listed, I was informed that the site in question was a mirror site to help with the loading to prevent what happened last week.

I have been stripped of 5 covert levels, I started with level 21 and am now level 16, I find it impossible to believe that I did 5 trades on that server.

I have no reason to hide, as I am not a cheat, if Forum thinks this is just punishment then I will take the rap but my intent was never to cheat. Due to a war between myself and ETL (Omega/Grand Alliance) I would like an independant arbiter/mod to judge on this decision.

- Lord Mango

[chunkysoup]

ill do it, id say im pretty fair dude, explain what happened, both sides s'il vous plait

[Forum]

mango - i invited you to answer a few questions i PM'd you.

[SSG EnterTheLion]

first of all I didn't make any decision regarding punishment. Hell I had to check who was on that list by using stat links just link the rest of you. NO ONE ELSE but admin has access to the database.

The punishment was admin's decision without any input from me.

[Lørd Søbek]

wow, over half those ppl are in the [Eternal Knights] Alliance, and a little less are officers of Dynasty

[chunkysoup]

yea i noticed that myself heh, funny how those things happen, eh?

[joshephe]

we were told about this loophole by Bahamut the leader of the AK alliance.

I am also sorry for doing it and will not complain about the punishment being to harsh. Because the punishment is fair.

[Lørd Søbek]

and u all just jumped on board eh? sounds like a backhanded policy to me. U must wonder that if they get caught once doing this how many other times they dont get caught.... just wondering to myself

but at least its something to look back on to think about next time u want to cheat... like when my parents took my laptop away for a month when i lied to them to go out with some girls to a party and they found out.... yeah, bad memories, not gonna try that again!

[ohknee0]

Justice is sweet

[[AG]Ra]

but i assume that girl was more sweeter

and yes, Bahamut told me about it, with the words "it's cheating, do not use it"
oh and btw: how did you know that josephe? maybe you should stay on EK forum