Requiel wrote:The problem wasn't due to a server fault or hardware issue. It *appears* that someone was attempting to dupe items. He failed, but everytime he tried the zone crashed as he flooded it with invalid data. It's been sorted.
:satyn1: crikey. Someone tried to re-programme the hamster. Actually this sounds really quite serious - it even sounds a bit like an attack on your system?
Requiel wrote:The problem wasn't due to a server fault or hardware issue. It *appears* that someone was attempting to dupe items. He failed, but everytime he tried the zone crashed as he flooded it with invalid data. It's been sorted.
Requiel wrote:The problem wasn't due to a server fault or hardware issue. It *appears* that someone was attempting to dupe items. He failed, but everytime he tried the zone crashed as he flooded it with invalid data. It's been sorted.
hhmm can someone explain the word dupe for english noobs.:asterixxx thx
btw it would be nice to get XML back, and will the lag stay in the game....:xest:
Arkaon / Karak-Norn
and plenty of other chars between 10 and 30
Did I read somewhere that players trying to duplicate items was partly to blame (or even totally to blame) for the big Prydwen server shutdown a few months ago when loads of people had their characters stripped?
Think it's time for me to draw a new smiley of a hamster on its wheel!
Gandelf wrote:Did I read somewhere that players trying to duplicate items was partly to blame (or even totally to blame) for the big Prydwen server shutdown a few months ago when loads of people had their characters stripped?
