tiggerkiddo
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How did SE screw that up?
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Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn |OT3| LFT Full Relic and DL Required
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Too bad you're gonna lose them when they do the rollbacks!
BananasWithGuns
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Exploits have been found so that you can instant level any class to 50, get as much gil as you want and dupe any item in game, aside from the other teleport hacks.
Information is pretty much out in the wild now, it's just a matter of time before someone creates an app that could potentially let anyone use them.
kingofthedead45
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Ugh >.> I want this to be my game that I sink time into, my main B. Not a side B, but this isn't helping!
tiggerkiddo
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Time for some serious maintenance. Hopefully they can fix a lot of this stuff.
Unknown Soldier
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I actually wonder if it's safe to advance anything right now. If hacking becomes widespread they might do server rollbacks after they've patched the exploits.
Only Squenix could make an MMO in 2013 which allows client-side actions without verifying validity of client actions before accepting them. Sasuga Squenix.
That's the main thing that has been on my mind after reading this. Hell, it's really bad timing when considering I was going to sub tomorrow (free period runs out Sunday). But now I'm wondering if SE will give us some assurances in how they plan on handling this (they won't, they'll just sit on it and do spontaneous emergency maintenance just like that bugged main-line quest on Ultros from a few weeks back).
tiggerkiddo
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I could see hacking become a widespread issue...anything people can do to get an edge, especially in a mmo...
Baleoce
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oh wow that's kind of crazy that it was designed with that basic an exploit. tempted to just leave the game be for a few days incase they have to hit the nuke progression button on their servers. will wait for some kind of response first though, hopefully they'll be quick about it.
that would imply a hasty response
lazorexplosion
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Christ. That's a basic, fundamental and almost complete failure of security. If their database security is this horrible in one area it shatters my trust that it is competent in other areas. Therefore I would strongly advise against letting SE have your credit card information.
tiggerkiddo
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They will just do blanket bans and rollback everything.
Unknown Soldier
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They can check logs for obvious things like level 1 to 50 in 1 minute, and a person having 6 billion gil.
Smart cheaters who add small increments of money to themselves over the course of a week, or subtly increase their leveling speed, could easily escape notice.
This is one reason I'm concerned about server rollbacks, there's no way they can catch every smart cheater. They still can't seem to deal with teleporting bots even it should be really fucking obvious that it's an impossible thing for a legit client to be doing. If it gets bad they'll just roll the servers back a week and fuck everyone over the way they took every rich person's suspended accounts and divided their gold by 100. It's amazing how incompetent Squenix is in dealing with hacking and how disrespectful they are to their paying subscribers.
razgriz417
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jesus christ, this better be fixed quick or else this may be it :/
I don't have a ton of macros like Baleonce does, I just do not like linking so many abilities together. Having everything on cooldown all the time is often not a bad idea, but I like the freedom to change things up as needed. I usually pair Bloodbath with Berserk/Fight or Flight for instance, but sometimes I'll save it for when I know adds are about to pop.
My setup is really nothing special. I made a little album showing my PLD/WAR tanking sets, plus character settings. Which can be found here.
Someone mentioned marking before, and pressing Square will bring up the "right click" window when targeting a mob letting you choose to mark from there. I've found this to be pretty quick, can even be done on the move in speed runs, but if it takes too long for you you can drag the marking icons from the window onto your hotbar.
Don't know if any of this will be of help. I really love tanking with controller though, it works great.
They never learned to be competent at managing FFXI and that goes on to FFXIV.
They didn't do a very good job of it, that's for sure.
SE basically has no fucking clue what to do at this point. Gilsellers and hackers roam around free to do whatever they want while SE bans innocent people for having gil. Then they're nerfing speedruns on dungeons (again) because who the fuck knows why. They seem to put more priority on how dungeons are run over people who are actually ruining the damn game.
They don't have to. From the sounds of it, they can send simple data requests to the server and it'll accept them.
Well, the screenshot of the one player leveling his carpenter class from 1 to 50 in the span of a minute surfaced earlier in the week. The news of the actual mechanics of the exploit probably only hit the grid in the last few days.
You might be fucked depending on when SE decides to do something about this. If a week or two passes and cheaters start getting more smart and not easily detectable, the roll-back could be a blanket one (like, up to when the exploit was first leaked, basically meaning that you might be fucked).
It doesn't seem like it accepts raw SQL, but rather JSON-formatted data requests.
Ganon Dragmire
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Does SE even know what's going on or released a statement yet? Do we stop playing for now? Ugh!
BananasWithGuns
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Yeah I'd imagine there will be quite a few people that feel the same way. I think I've run CM like 15 times over the past 3 days and I'm not sure I could bring myself to redo all of that.
As much as I love the game, if they do some significant rollbacks that span several days then I'll probably hang it up.
I forwarded it to a couple of SE employees I know, but I don't know if it'll help or not.
Unknown Soldier
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The bigger problem is that hacked requests are indistinguishable from legit client requests. Meaning very clever and subtle hacking is undetectable even if you sit there and manually check millions of log entries one by one.
Well the Allagan gloves are garbage so they'd be doing you a favor on one end.
Well, we don't know that for sure. There very well could be extra data that the client sends that people aren't sending and it just isn't required by the server to process the requests. Kind of like a referrer header in an HTTP request or something like that. If that's the case, and they keep logs of that, then it may be not so bad to sort through this stuff. But I guess I shouldn't get my hopes up.
Is there like a video, or another thread on a different site where I can read about/ see this?
Very curious if its time to quit, much like when PSO item dupe was ridiculous.
are you in ultros? your heartwarming story earns my sympathies and ill run it with you
devious.one
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If you're using PUGs, you'll find that most of them just want to speed run the dungeon for their tomestones. It gets even worse on the PS3 because of load-times. The only thing I can tell you is to get FC folks or shout for a like-minded group (or a group that is cool with first-time players).
better than fucking DL
god I hate DL so much
you really shouldn't be watching cutscenes in a group from shouts. if DF though, all bets are off.
DarknessTear
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Coil turns 2 and 3 completed. Gonna run 4 tomorrow!
Unknown Soldier
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like dis
Or how about these:
http://jacklog.doorblog.jp/archives/33776800.html
Actually, automatic Fate grinding is a pretty neat feature. Why not automate a mindless activity? LOL
Robobandit
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That guy was also reportedly riding around on a new server with a goobbue.. clearly a very clever individual.
tiggerkiddo
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