Murphy’s law: a supposed law of nature, expressed in various humorous popular sayings, to the effect that anything that can go wrong - will go wrong. Hi friends, for those of you who seek end game gear and eventually obtain it, might have the same fears as most would. Those fears would be losing your hard earned items, either from accidentally dropping, NPCing, or getting hacked (due to “poor” security). BUT there is a solution to this: Item Guard: A guard for sealing an equip item and/or throwing stars to prevent selling, trading or dropping of the item. Pros: Prevention of DROPPING, SELLING, TRADING items Extra security (are you really going to complain about extra security) Option to choose protection duration and renewable option Keeping the protected item when hacked Come back to the game with your items still there after a long hiatus Sense of relief / Comfort Cons: Costs NX and if you have MULTIPLE items you want to protect, may be quite expensive as NX is harder to obtain (solution: make them purchasable from NPC Albert through mesos) (healthy money sink) Cannot trade your items for the duration that you bought (description literally says what you bought is what you’re getting) EVIDENCE of Murphy's law - players getting hacked/NPCing items: 1. PERFECTLY scrolled weapon being NPC’d and forgotten (~buyback doesn’t always solve everything, why not add another option for highly precious items): https://royals.ms/forum/threads/lost-my-perfect-crushed-skull-160att-and-23att-maple-shield.162392/ 2. (2nd person to reach level 200 in the server getting hacked) And if you look into ban appeals you can see multiple ban appeals of people getting hacked due to POOR security. - People are also getting hacked on a daily basis as well as returning players. I doubt the GMs will see an importance in this/ever prioritize working on this as it seems to be brushed off saying you should be fine if you have a strong PASS and PIC but I just wanted to shine light onto this. I was told to post this here from shoutbox even though this is technically a request for an NX item
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We're always open to suggestion on how to better improve an account's overall security. Item lock is definitely one of those features we could use. But for now, having a strong password, PIN and PIC is our default suggestion. Down the road, this item will be implemented.
Great suggestion after seeing people lose equips that took them years to create simply because of poor security. 3k NX, although a lot if you have 10-20 items, is worth it for the extra layer of security. Although hackers probably don't do this, imagine them dropping your hard-earned 8 att MoN, 40 dex zhelm or black belt, or even the once-per-year valentine's ring/christmas nose.
Hackers take valuable items, but leave your character with the untradeables. They too still want you to play so that they can possibly hack you again in the future. If they throw everything from the account, many people will quit and the game dies.
I disagree with this statement. Hackers probably don't take the time to drop your untradeables because they're busy hacking as many people as possible. It isn't that they particularly care or don't care about any one single person they hack unless they hacked you specifically because they hate you. Anyways, this is off topic. Perhaps you should focus on the suggestion at hand rather than commenting on someone else's response.
This will kill lendstory. How are people supposed to show off their range in the new range thread with item guards??
Hi, my name is Jinium, and as a victim of the hacked accounts, I wish I had item guard. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
