I remember back in GMS before even this patch, before pirates came out, I had gotten to level 100 before there was 4th job advance. It took a ridiculous amount of time. 0.01% a kill since like level 70. Back then essentially 90% of the high levels in the game were hackers. Naturally, this really annoyed people like me who would spent a alot of time trying to be good at the game. The hacking problem is clearly much less severe here, but I am curious what people would estimate the percentage of player base that is using hacks. Whether its for training purposes or just for items and gold. I see hackers almost on a daily basis sucking up monsters and using god mode and do my best to report them, though they usually cc pretty quickly. It seems like they are instantly aware when someone is on their channel or have some sort of auto dc because I can see evidence of hacking but the hacker is already gone. I don't want to make it sound like I am ungrateful for the security that the GMs do. I can't imagine how much time it would take to go around policing the servers 24/7 to deter cheaters. So based on pure speculation, I am wondering what other community members believe is going on in regard to a few questions: -How many of 4th job advance players do you think used hacks to train their way up? -What percentage of hackers do you think get caught? -When it comes to the very best of the best players on the server, do you think any of them are cheaters? -Do you think the source of the most well scrolled items is from hacking, duping, cheating, etc? I guess I forgot to research if this type of subject is even frowned upon to discuss on the forums. It just seems like I have seen a recent influx of hackers, though it may be because I am leveling a warrior and training in areas I never went to before. (Forest of golem seems to have hackers on ~25% of the channels). Any input or relevant discussion is welcome.
I suspect the bulk of the actual "community" is pretty clean. Duping bugs have largely been fixed, and the staff are always on the lookout for anomalies, such as people whose luck with scrolling seems too good to be true. From what I've seen, the script trainers in many channels tend to be the same person with multiple accounts. Many seem to be primarily farming mesos, probably for RWT purposes. There'll be the people buying that mesos, but hopefully they're getting caught, as surely it'd be obvious from trade logs.
A ton at this point. There are RWT sellers out there who train multiple characters/accounts using hacks past 4th job. They then sell the account to lazy people. Once a while you'd see HT mastery books like gen30 getting wiped from FM. They are typically wiped by those hackers to prepare their sales account with completed core skills like gen30,mw20 for a bishop char. There was a time when every gen30 got wiped from FM. I contacted the sellers for the IGN of buyers. I tracked them and found them all (4~5) hacking in the same map in El nath. Probably 95%+ get caught in the end although it 's taking forever to get them banned right now. Only a lucky few get away. Yes × 99 We know where they got their starting fund I'd say at least 70% of perfected weapons and 80% of end game gear (cape/glove/shoe) were made by RWTers. The RWT buyers bought them for real money but they later sold it for mesos so they started circulating in the market. Number of hackers are not as many as it seems. It's mostly the same people coming back infinitely even after getting banned.
Yeah I kind of figured the same thing. I can't believe people are still spending their lives trying to hack in a friggin private server of a 15 yr old game ;/
I disagree, there are a lot more hackers in Royals than there were on Pre-BBB GMS. in certain maps there are hackers 99% of the time in one of the channels, it's pretty ridiculous.
Back in 2004 GMS over 90 percent of players over lv 60 were hackers. You probably joined after the first mass ban waves. They used to not even ban lol
