Solution to the Kron Hacker Crisis

[halfdan]

I'm curious as to what people would like to see done...

[techno-viking]

server rollback as a last resort.

if they just fix the hackers ability to hack the game and let all those who profitied from it keep the kron/items, then the economy is screwed. i seen an app with 900 xens for sale earlier, that app obviously ran around and bought up all the normal priced xens, so now there will be a shortage of them and the prices will go through the roof....which will price amny people out the game ><

it's such a tough situation, and i can't really think of anyhting to fix it atm.

[johnbunny]

How is the hacker account deletion going to alleviate the situation? There are BILLIONS of Kron floating around as if it's nothing by muuuuultiple players! It could be so generously distributed that it's impossible to really track it all. I don't know. The game seems pretty effed right now.

[BloodLimit]

The solution involves the DNC, the GM's can't do anything about this at this rate. I knew something like this was bound to happen, if big games like WoW, PSU and FFXI can be hacked, a simple game like SoS is a piece of cake for those hackers.

A quick solution for this problems is creating a new shop system, one that displays the SELLER and the BUYER to keep it recorded on the server.

A server rollback or character deletion. Either way many players might quit, but having a server rollback wont do much harm if they offer a good weekboost + raising the time on the books.

[ggBuRNe]

the 4th option ROFLS

[dylanangel]

Yea sorry but rollback and deletion of players better never happen again. I worked to hard on my chars to have it removed because of some hacker. Nah aint ok with that at all

[tengokuken]

Server rollback, sadly but, ugh... ><
I like the 4th xD!

[techno-viking]

The solution involves the DNC, the GM's can't do anything about this at this rate. I knew something like this was bound to happen, if big games like WoW, PSU and FFXI can be hacked, a simple game like SoS is a piece of cake for those hackers.

A quick solution for this problems is creating a new shop system, one that displays the SELLER and the BUYER to keep it recorded on the server.

A server rollback or character deletion. Either way many players might quit, but having a server rollback wont do much harm if they offer a good weekboost + raising the time on the books.

i like that shop idea. while they are at it they could set price caps on things liek xens, ssf, leather, wood, aloe etc. and help stamp out player greed from the game once and for all.

[eyezspyre28]

SERVER ROLLBACK..its inevitable
its the only solution if we want a market free of hacked kron and stabilize the economy at least..
EXP,SC,item,xens,Enhanced gears loss should a rollback occur is truly, will be disappointing but cant be helped..and lets keep our hopes that DNC/Outspark will try to compensate on that.

[CM_JungleCurry]

We are still investigating the issue. Once we figure out the full extent of the issue we will work on the best possible solution.

[stingstungme]

Yea sorry but rollback and deletion of players better never happen again. I worked to hard on my chars to have it removed because of some hacker. Nah aint ok with that at all

Huh? I am assuming that if they were to delete accounts then it would be the specific people directly involved in this scam.

[TRXSTA]

Rollback would also not be like it was when they transitioned from CB to OB. o_O

[BloodLimit]

Rollback : Return to a previous time of the server.
Character wipe : What happened last year.

They're different.

[diedwithoutasoul]

I'm going with....Fix the system so hackers can't do that kind of...er....crud....and i got nothing as for the money problem -.- maybe just give everyone 10mil kron and let them have a field day?

[joradn102794]

maybe just give everyone 10mil kron and let them have a field day?

I like that idea..coz i didnt get any profit from that hacker...stupid hacker wont shop at eir D:<

[techno-viking]

I like that idea..coz i didnt get any profit from that hacker...stupid hacker wont shop at eir D:<


he/she did do eir & byrn too.

[DemKill9556]

All I know is I'm glad I woke up late this morning. o_o
If they do a character wipe I'm outta here! :'D I may be 52 but I have worked hard on mah aco. x_x

[comp4ssion]

Ya know...this might disturb some of you, but....I have no idea how to fix this problem. It's all up to the GMs.

Ultimately though, what I'd like to see done is all the excess hundreds of millions of Kron generated by this hack deposited into Tofu's prostate cancer research fund. With that kind of money, prostate cancer will be as obsolete as polio.

Sorry, Tofu...you don't get an override off the dough. But don't feel bad. You'll have cured prostate cancer and you'll once again be able to afford Xens for the gear after prices stabilize.

Seriously though, anyone with 900 Xens and 150 of each Unknown Book in their inventory is pretty much automatically suspect. So once they delete the accounts of those responsible for the hack and delete the excess items, and then hold another event to get reasonably priced Xens back into the economy, things will even out a bit.

[BloodLimit]

I'm going with....Fix the system so hackers can't do that kind of...er....crud....and i got nothing as for the money problem -.- maybe just give everyone 10mil kron and let them have a field day?

No matter what system they got, if the hacker is smart they can mess things up again and again until they get bored of it. I'm still surprised they haven't exploited this to other players within the community as well as other possibilities to really mess things up.

Giving everyone 10m kron would involve messing up the economy EVEN more, it would make it hard for the new players nearby-the future.

Right now, they must investigate what caused all of this, fix it and create a new system to counter-attack this mess in the future and a possible server rollback.

[Ayanami]

Server Rollback NEEDS to happen, because the economy is already messed up with all this extra cash floating around.

This is coming from someone who had her store bought out last night by the mystery hacker. I also gained some good exp this weekend to.

It's been said that a rollback can be done and not mess up exp, which would make it less painful than a full rollback. The long term effects of leaving all this money in the game I think are worse than a few items/kron/trades being lost. People are talking about quitting over a rollback. Well I don't think I want to hang around in a game with a destroyed economy and a worthless currency.

[Maxout]

Sup Bh is me DKing but back on topic i agree with BH giving ppl 10mill will just make the economy must even more and with the char deletion if my archer get delated i am going to be so p-ed i will still play because i love sots but i wont make a archer:D:D:D:D:D

it would be just wrong to delet ppl char they work so hard on and wat about the sc ppl have on for the boost weekend will outspark give us back r sc gear and boost stuff

[tazsbigtoy]

Well no idea how to fix the mess either. But I do know whatever happens people will be upset. The only problem is they will quickly go from being upset with the hacker to being upset with the game staff. The hard part at this point is waiting to see what the solution will be. I am sure a server rollback will be a last resort as it will seriously upset a lot of players. The really sad thing is probably only a few players have taken advantage of the situation by selling stuff for ridiculous amounts, but they in turn used the money they made to buy gear and items from innocent players. I've hear rumors of people maxing out there kron amount and actually opening guilds and using them to store funds and maxing those out. I hope it's rumors otherwise it's an even more massive mess than before.

[masterroku]

This is bad...-_- I'm very curious to what the GM's are going to do about it.

[yin_yan]

ya i'm unsure of what could be a good way to respond/resolve the current predicament SotS is in. either way you look at it atm its not looking good, each option stil widely affects tha community......

[Trashknight]

Funny how things happens when I can't get in.(Okay, save for the FW-frenzy in fall)

I would be surprised if we don't get a rollback for this whole matter with a kron-crisis.>_>

Still intrested how big the impact will be in the community for 2009.

Any bets on how many days it takes before we see a solution?(And countermeasures for future
attacks as far OS can prevent it)

[yin_yan]

Funny how things happens when I can't get in.(Okay, save for the FW-frenzy in fall)

I would be surprised if we don't get a rollback for this whole matter with a kron-crysis.>_>

Still intrested how big the impact will be in the community for 2009.

Any bets on how many days it takes before we see a solution?(And countermeasures for future
attacks as far OS can prevent it)

lolz i don't see this being solved anytime soon. tho i'm sure the Outspark team will do there best to do what they can asap.

stil the idea of rollback jus suks....

[dylanangel]

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