[21-11-2005] New Frontiers zone unstable on the cluster

Takitothemacs · Post by **Takitothemacs** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:40 am

no, that was down to the 50p cpu fan that GOA had on the server stopping and the CPU overheating and causing data corruption.

Killder · Post by **Killder** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:44 am

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.

Names please?

Frozodo · Post by **Frozodo** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:08 am

Killder wrote:Names please?

they got u this time m8 u r d00med

Kallima · Post by **Kallima** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:20 am

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.

We had something similar to this happen in a game I played a few years back. Three days of the whole game crashing every 20 or 30 minutes due to someone attacking the system to duplicate their gold and items. We all gave up and just logged on to chat between crashes. Then they managed to block the attacks and permanently remove the accounts involved. Merciful peace returned and there were heartfelt cheers from the whole community.

Sharkith · Post by **Sharkith** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:21 am

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?

Think it's time for me to draw a new smiley of a hamster on its wheel!

nope that time is was the hamster and it fell off the wheel - if you can draw an image of a hamster getting tangled up in his wheel we can use it as the GOA server.

Sharkith · Post by **Sharkith** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:22 am

Kallima wrote:We had something similar to this happen in a game I played a few years back. Three days of the whole game crashing every 20 or 30 minutes due to someone attacking the system to duplicate their gold and items. We all gave up and just logged on to chat between crashes. Then they managed to block the attacks and permanently remove the accounts involved. Merciful peace returned and there were heartfelt cheers from the whole community.

and lots of cake

Cromcruaich · Post by **Cromcruaich** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:25 pm

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?

Think it's time for me to draw a new smiley of a hamster on its wheel!

That was my conspiracy theory. Probably not exclusively though

Cromcruaich · Post by **Cromcruaich** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:27 pm

Killder wrote:Names please?

Anyone for a stoning?

Post by **Lieva** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:30 pm

Cromcruaich wrote:Anyone for a stoning?

hey hey enough of that

we burn people on this forum we dont stone them..

Sharkith · Post by **Sharkith** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:32 pm

we also do crucfixion - now where is that geezer who said he was jesus?