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there is some kind of bug in the casino system that results in large amounts of money being given to players when abused. i walked into the middle of two users, Drizak and narin, openly speaking about abusing it. if anyone knows anything about this, please respond.

not sure I will mess around and see if I can figure it out.

beats me I tried several things, I have no idea.

issue updated in Mantis

What about searching the forums?
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopi ... ded#p16737

As said this bug won't be fixed anyways, so who cares?

similar but different

so science all most everybody abused the casino bug will everyone's money be reset? Probably a question for platyana

Coping with an exploit which bought tons of money into the game is something which is very hard to deal with for an admin of an MMORPG because resetting everyones money would be quite unfair for those who worked honestly for it.

The browser-based MMORPG Kingdom of Loathing faced the same problem once. Instead of doing a roleback or a money wipe they managed to cope with the problem in a very elegant way without even straining the established rules of the game world. http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/ind ... ack_Sunday (Note: "Meat" is the currency in the game)

Crush wrote:Coping with an exploit which bought tons of money into the game is something which is very hard to deal with for an admin of an MMORPG because resetting everyones money would be quite unfair for those who worked honestly for it.

The browser-based MMORPG Kingdom of Loathing faced the same problem once. Instead of doing a roleback or a money wipe they managed to cope with the problem in a very elegant way without even straining the established rules of the game world. http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/ind ... ack_Sunday (Note: "Meat" is the currency in the game)

A very nice solution. It lets the player decide if they'd rather have the prestige of copious amounts of bug money or some kind of symbolic token. It would go a long way to restoring some balance to the economy.

I was going to suggest dying the Iron Ore gold, making a "Gold Ore" item, and making every monster drop it at .01%, so that there could be something a bit more tangible in the player-to-player economy. Maybe this in combination with a roll-back would be acceptable.

We need Robin Hood

Changing currency would require us to rewrite all scripts, and this is a test server, players should accept the fact it can be even shot up to the moon. I would even go for complete item wipe, since we had alot of bugs and the economy doesn't exists at all.

Regards.

why an item wipe? that pretty extreme, there are a lot or rares that could not be re-obtained unless you re-introduced all the events at the same time. So everyone has a shot at getting there rares back, Or take and make rares available through npcs.

Platyna wrote:Changing currency would require us to rewrite all scripts, and this is a test server, players should accept the fact it can be even shot up to the moon. I would even go for complete item wipe, since we had alot of bugs and the economy doesn't exists at all.

Regards.