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Coming up on this episode…
- The price of APEX goes bump in the night
- GM Smackdown lives up to his name
- The RAPTURE is UPON US!
- All this and more, coming up on this episode of the Capsized Podcast!
Intro
- APEX price has been soaring lately… anyone make any gold off that?
- How do people make so much gold? Its obscene. We can push max 3600g per month with our farms using trade packs.
- Hey you guys see that gold seller offering… services? (BJ’s)
- Maybe he got banned for using 3rd party programs.
News
The Rapture is Upon Us
- The rapture has occurred. We got a system-wide message from a GM last night saying: “If you just saw someone get raptured, they had been using illicit 3rd part programs that we’ve been tracking. They’ve received an email and we’re cleaning up their gains. yes that means they’re banned, have a great day!”
- Today we saw that the GM’s were tracking the gold and reverting it: see screenshot.
- http://forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?96753-Gold-Being-Removed-A-Tale-of-Illicit-Gains-Coming-to-an-End
- http://forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?97048-Over-17-000-Botting-Hacking-or-Spamming-Accounts-Banned
Cheaters Have Feelings Too
- Cheaters are getting banned and they’re not happy.
- Some are not being banned, even though they do hack… this is mostly Z-axis hacks where they just add 1000+ meters in altitude when gliding aka glide hack.
- We’re already seeing reports of land becoming available as accounts are nuked.
Patron Status Interruptions
- The new patch disrupted Patron Status for a number of unlucky players. Trion/XL in the process of fixing their Patron system, which has been plagued by problems since launch, managed to drop Patron patron status on thousands of accounts. Some even reported that their credit cards were charged for an additional month of Patron, although Trion has stated this is not the case, and that any emails sent to players from Trion stating there was a charge for Patron are erroneous.
- From what we can tell, most or all of these players have had their status restored.
Hartsman Responds to Allegations of Regrade Hacking
- See reddit post here.
- A Reddit user posted with snippets of screenshots alleging a player had used regrade hacks to accomplish two celestial regrades in a matter of minutes.
- Scott Hartsman, CEO of Trion, responded to the thread:
- 1) We pulled that gentleman’s logs immediately. What resulted in those messages were saved up after a ridiculous amount of prep work. What doesn’t get broadcast is the hundreds and hundreds of regrade attempts over previous days/weeks, and items being destroyed along the way. (and other set items being destroyed during that attempt..and also, after.)
- 2) The dude in the forum clip: We checked logs there. What he describes has not happened on any server. Much like a lot else on the internet, just true-sounding enough to where people treat it as fact.
- That said, we always like to assume there’s something to deal with until we can prove positively there isn’t, which is why we’ve also been pulling all regrades for everything since the beginning of time to check for anomalies as one full set of data.
- How to profit in Archeage with minimum effort
Hallowtide has arrived!
- See your local auctioneer for a daily quest to get gift boxes
What We’ve Been Doing
Stalking and Killing Bots
- Over the weekend, me and Feagun the Spud Pirate went to go kill some bots in Cinderstone. We had trouble killing them because right before they die, they would teleport hack to the respawn, heal up and then start botting again.
- We overcame this with saving all the burst DPS for the last 20% of life.
- We also found that once the bots had been reported, they would immediately start running away… Turns out they were making a beeline for Marianople to talk to the Judge and have the debuff removed!
- We watched a line of these jokers walking out of Cinderstone into Marionople, it was disgusting.
- Early this week, I spent an hour or so just killing bots over and over in Cinderstone. It was especially useful to kill their mounts so they had to walk everywhere.
- Unfortunately I got a few hundred crime points and ended up in prison for a few of hours. Shoutout to my cellmates Yasuna and Valkillmore (awesome name)!
- So there were a lot of bots out in Cinderstone before… what about after the Rapture? Well, after the Rapture, I went to Cinderstone to do some more bot killing, but there were no bots! Went to the Nuian starting point, watched new bots spawn in at a rate of a few every couple minutes. Went a little further into the zone and found a bot questing. With the help of a guildie, Xcamr, we tracked him as he leveled.
- This bot was what I’d call an “optionally piloted vehicle”. Sometimes he was obviously on auto-pilot walking from one place to another, while other times it appeared he was actively making decisions.
- He would actually teleport from one mob to another, then autopilot back to the questgiver. While we saw him use his horse to get to a new area, we also saw him teleport to a new area as well.
- Eventually he lost his connection or was kicked because the bot stopped moving and was killed by a mob.
Thoughts on False-Positive Bannings
- In a post on the official forums we’re seeing a lot of people claiming to be victims of false positive bannings….
- Not surprising, there are a lot of people claiming “I didn’t do anything…and still go banned” I guess we’ll see where that all comes out. I feel like the amount of people saying it, makes me think they might have a false positive issue…
- Hacking is broad Stu I’m betting they don’t have that many falses everyone on the Internet says they are innocent
- They were doing it off reports and data they were tracking because I think they know a lot if they are able to track gold several accounts down to find gold that was procured in a less than scrupulous manner they know people using outside programs to do stuff
- I’ve gotta side with Turbo on this one… I was just reading a guy defending his friend who was banned… The guy said all his friend did was use a macro to AFK in his house by jumping over and over in place running against a wall… well guess what dude, thats not allowed. Deal with it.
ONE MORE THING….
Tips and Tricks
How Not to get Banned
- Keyboard have a macro utility? Don’t use it.
- Want to avoid AFK? Don’t.
- In a guild with a bunch of cheaters? Leave.
Feedback
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Excellent podcast I just listened to episode 1 and I am looking forward to the others.
The familiar voice was driving me crazy trying to remember, so glad you mentioned the instance!
Cheers,
Robert
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