Y'all, I saved the economy and just want somebody to know.
Well. You may have some questions. Let me get ahead of some.
- Isn't that more than the limit?
- yup
- How?
- I have already diagnosed and reported the method
- Any attempt to dig into it WILL get you iced
- How bad was it?
- You could generate 3600-12000/hr/account...
- This method could be automated...
- These are confirmed spendable points...
- Why even post?
- I'm proud of preventing an economy breaking bug before it came into use.
- I know 0 people who play so there was nobody for me to tell who would understand...
- What If I think I'm effected or have unintended points?
- Shoot me a DM and I will teach you how to diagnose.
- If we get a positive you can send a ticket in and TNT will fix it up.
- Do you fear for your account?
- I do not expect it to survive... It will die to save the rest of us.
- Edit: TNT might let me live.
- EDIT EDIT: TNT says I get to keep the account! They will simply be removing the extra points!
- IDK how many they will leave me with but it will be fun to find out.
- Will you start over?
- Yup. I made a fresh account last night. detective_snail is now me! I like the name better and like my new pets. But also I made support aware that I was expecting a freeze and to need to restart so they know I am intending to start fresh with this account.
- What was the account worth?
- 100 million-ish.
- Can this happen accidentally?
- This requires a LOT of jank to achieve. Check your totals and submit a ticket if you are over today's limit.
- Active abuse vs accidental use can be checked for so accidental points can be correctly differentiated from intentional points!
- The effect has a limited duration so if you were affected you are now not.
- TNT can blanket remove any extra points so if you go down a few points that will be the whole ordeal.
- Is it fixed?
- It's a very easy fix programming-wise.
- My affected account isn't affected anymore.
- Do the points count towards trophies?
- Nope. They are ghost points. There was no way to find them outside of a manual account check.
- I assume TNT will need to run a script to parse all accounts because of this.
- Were you trying to find exploits?
- Nope. My points were just wrong and I started digging.
- Will you drop an explanation after it is confirmed fixed?
- Yeah. It should already be fixed as I type this but I will wait for confirmation.
- Also I want confirmation because if it isn't fixed I'm breaking rule 1
- Avoid any speculation, I explain nothing until we aren't breaking rule 1.
The long and short is that I found a method to bypass plot point limits and spent some time exploring it to send a good report to TNT. I debated just going dark and waiting until the limit passed what I had. But, I recognized the potential danger. Could you imagine someone out there just printing hundreds of thousands of points every day.... I FELT LIKE BOROMIR HOLDING THE ONE RING FOR A SECOND.
Anyways. Problem resolved. Economy saved. 1 account sacrificed. Carry on!
Edit: adding question I get.
EDIT EDIT: Someone gifted me fish and crackers after I commented I was hungry! Absolute legend.