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Postby Doug R. » Sat May 16, 2009 1:51 pm

I wonder if it's just coincidental that this is happening a day after the item transfer hacking.
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Postby ceselb » Sat May 16, 2009 2:29 pm

SekoETC wrote:The bug hasn't been reported earlier, has it?

It is know since before, yes. Things have disappeared many times.
Doug R. wrote:I wonder if it's just coincidental that this is happening a day after the item transfer hacking.

It is a coincidence, yes. Not related in any way I can see. Other than shoddy coding, you have to sanitize inputs throughout, or you can inject any query.
Possibly abstracting it, so that a serverside string is generated for each possible option on a page. That way you don't show the queries anywhere and cheating will be much harder. (It might be too slow to be viable though, but surely this is a know problem with known solutions.)
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Postby *Wiro » Sat May 16, 2009 7:05 pm

Doug R. wrote:I wonder if it's just coincidental that this is happening a day after the item transfer hacking.


Doubt that it was a hack. I bet it's something with the boats like with the "OMG I HEAR LOCKBREAKING" bug.
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Postby Dudel » Sat May 16, 2009 9:18 pm

Or watching people pick up keys while walking? :lol:
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Postby Gran » Sun May 17, 2009 4:39 am

Phantom key keepers: They steal your clothes!
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Postby SekoETC » Sun May 17, 2009 12:22 pm

Well maybe we weren't supposed to say it's a hack but the person who did it got their account locked, that should reveal something. If you discover an exploit, report it, don't abuse it.
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Postby Illidan » Sun May 17, 2009 9:00 pm

not only keys.... i have seen mans in their twenties giving keys for each other on road.... mans dropping keys and mans getting keys on the road x.x

it's normal??
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Postby *Wiro » Sun May 17, 2009 9:08 pm

The way Cantr's code is now... yes, basically. Of course it shouldn't be possible, but it's not impossible to do such things.
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Postby tazer » Fri Jun 05, 2009 9:55 pm

So I'm about to send my 3rd email to support unless if someone has a reason not to. I'm not getting responded to anymore...
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Postby Dudel » Fri Jun 05, 2009 10:11 pm

I thought this was fixed already?
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Postby SekoETC » Fri Jun 05, 2009 10:16 pm

ProgD can't fix shit at the moment. No one has any idea of what triggers the bug, it doesn't happen in every case and there is no warning, no one knows if the resources/items go to some sort of limbo/turn invisible or if they are completely deleted. Maybe you just have to get accustomed to the system being unstable and blame some sort of supernatural phenomenon, since there is no way of telling when things get better.
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Postby *Wiro » Fri Jun 05, 2009 10:42 pm

Oh wow I forgot about this. Am I lucky that when I was probably going to be dragging stuff, I just carried it in parts to prevent being dragged myself when dragging stuff on the ground. :P The items I did drag did not disappear.
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Postby tazer » Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:32 pm

Alright maybe it's still broke but can they at least give me some resources in the mean time? It's really hard to RP that because every1 just says it got stolen and its ur fault if you do
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Postby SekoETC » Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:38 pm

I don't think it's possible. Someone can correct me if there's a tool for creating resources or increasing the size of a pile.
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Postby Doug R. » Sat Jun 06, 2009 3:59 pm

SekoETC wrote:I don't think it's possible. Someone can correct me if there's a tool for creating resources or increasing the size of a pile.


I think that can only be done in the database.
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