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Woah! Calling that a hack or an exploit is a BIG understatement! Anyone dumb enough to take advantage of such a hack (or ANY hack) deserves to be permabanned immediately. It is simply mind-boggling that anyone could be dumb enough to use it.

Well with how quickly movement and teleport hacks came to this game, it seems there's far too much trust in the client right now, and this hack is also exactly that. It does not bode well, that's for sure, but we can only wait and see.

Wow... I dont have any other words for this...

I can understand this is how they're level 50'ing everything. And that their offer to "PL from 1 to 50" is basicly them hacking the game in this fashion.

But what i dont understand is, why do it in such a public space where EVERYONE can see?

They must be really intelligent to pull off such an exploit and spoofing the server into thinking they're leveling up. But at the same time so incredibly dumb to just let everyone see. It just doesnt add up.

Wouldn't surprise me if this has been happening for a while and its just now that someone messed up and started the wrong script. From the chat log, it looks like it took less than 30 seconds to happen (esp. the "WTF" comment), so the damage would have already been done even if they had a way to stop it.

As for how it was done, it was most likely some kind of data spoofing. It isn't surprising that this could happen, as the only way to have completely sterile communication between the client program (what you play) and the servers is to have the client be a game steaming service, which would be an infrastructure nightmare to manage for an MMO.

One of the smarter design decisions SE made this go round was disallowing anyone to craft in the the inn room. So while there are certainly quieter places to craft, there are no private spaces.

Perhaps Housing? :p

Brings new meaning to Triple leve turn ins!

Obviously this character will get the banhammer, but how long will they have it before that happens? Hopefully they are relatively quick with the hammer, otherwise they'd have to then track down all the accounts this one trades with and investigate if they are RMT or not.

edit:

Oooo ooo new theory: What if they somehow broke the Quality bar. Like, made it infinite, then filled it. It would give a boundless % of bonus EXP capable of leveling in one synth.

Edit 2:

Not trying to figure out to exploit it, trying to sort out how they are doing this to know what else they could break.

Edited, Oct 7th 2013 12:30pm by Pawkeshup

He almost instantly got "On the payroll III" and "On the payroll IV", meaning that between those two achievements, he instantly made 100k+ worth of gil, by doing nothing.

So not only is this a leveling exploit, it's a MAJOR gil exploit as well.

Sad really.. People will do anything to cheat and it just runes the game for others.
Now SE has to spend time tracking this exploit down instead of developing new cool things to do for us....

Looks like a simple memory edit.. like someone above said, Game Genie ahoy.

Though the fact the guy went from 20 to 50 suggests that levequests or at least the turn in may have something to do with it.

I hope it's not that simple, because that's just lazy programming if so.

I'm hoping they can do both simultaneously

The employees who are responsible for creating new content hopefully aren't the same ones who track down RMT and cheaters.

This was my thought as well. There is no way the server should be trusting the client with information on leve rewards or xp gain. That's just poor design.

I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt, though, and assume that the exploit was more complex than telling the server "I'm turning in this leve" x number of times in a row.