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Risk Your Life publisher Planetwide Games has just announced short-term plans to deal with an exploit that allowed certain players to gain more XP than intended. Apparently, a limitation in the game's quest log allowed players who had filled their logs to repeat quests that they'd already completed, giving them the opportunity to win more total quest benefits than other players.
For unstated reasons, the actual bug that allowed the exploits will not immediately be fixed. Instead all quests over level 50 will be temporarily disabled to mitigate the amount of damage exploiters can do. Also, rather than simply rolling back the servers (which would negatively affect all players), game staff are currently scouring the game logs looking for any evidence of players exploiting this bug to their advantage. The most flagrant violaters will lose their characters entirely, while other, smaller-time exploiters will have their characters rolled back to an earlier state, and will be left with zero XP.
First, please my accept my apologies for not making a quick reply over the weekend. I needed to coordinate this issue with Youxiland and find a solution to the problem and i did not want to issue any news that may be construed incorrectly.
The current issue with our quests revolves around the fact the the game does not allow players to store/save more then 13 pages worth of quests. Doing any quests beyond this allowed players to exploit the system and do same quests multiple times and giving unfair advantage to regular players. This issue could not have been forseen in our alpha testing nor was Youxiland aware of this issue until now.
Unfortunately, this issue will not be fixed immediately, and it is with my great regret that we have decided to disable all quests above level 50 until this issue has been fixed.
In regards to the exploiters, we have full access to the number of players who have exploited these quests and we will now fully punish these players. Most fragrant violators will completely lose their character. Others will be rollbacked to their pre-patch level with zero EXP. I assure you this will not be another level 80 exploit incident. Justice will be served.
While this may not be harsh enough penalty, we feel this is the best step to take instead of rolling back the whole servers and causing those law abiding players to suffer for the consequences of the few.
I cannot express to you how deeply this incident has affected our internal staff as well as our volunteer GM staff. At then end of the day, we understand you have a right to express your view on various issues with the our game and our service. However, please use the forums for constructive criticism and not flames.
Thank you for your patience during this trying times. |
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RYL: High-Level Quests Temporarily Disabled @ Official Forums
