About an hour ago, GM Theia came into the AQ teamspeak and apologized for the initial bans that kicked off the entire mess.  It turns out that Discord fundamentally misinterpreted the evidence of the 'ghost inventory exploit' that AQ was accused of.  In fact, the 3 people who were banned all died inside the keep from earthquaking.  Any false flagged items viewed by the GM's were flagged as such due to having just died inside the keep, and the items were on the corpses.

The entire mess was Discord's fault for poor analysis of evidence and his "100% proof" turns out to be 0% proof.

I would appreciate if Theia would publically reply to this thread, since I know you follow MMORPG.  It would be good to have an official statement from SV.

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To address a few other points:  it has come to my attention that someone from AQ used a yellow account to chat spam the enemy after the initial bans were given.  AQ does not condone the use of such an exploit, and it is a stain on the name that it happened.  I personally apologize that such a thing happened; it is not classy.  As an older member of AQ, all I can say is that young raging kids will be young raging kids and it never would have happened if it were not for 'false' GM bans.

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As far as keeps being destroyed, SV has said they will release the results of that investigation.  I personally hope an AQ member did not have anything to do with it.  I can tell you the majority of AQ don't know anything about it, and if someone does they aren't talking about it.  

The bottom line is that GM's should never be allowed to have guild affiliations.  They should not have ever played the game as to eliminate any bias for friends.  The volunteer GM program should simply not exist, and is another example of a fundamental leadership failure within Starvault.  

I agree completely. The reason that Communism doesn't work is because man is too easily corrupted. No GM's should be allowed ot play in the actual game. It's a terrible idea, and at best reults in rumors of cheating, and in all probability results in actual cheating.

Originally posted by psykobilly

 

About an hour ago, GM Theia came into the AQ teamspeak and apologized for the initial bans that kicked off the entire mess.  It turns out that Discord fundamentally misinterpreted the evidence of the 'ghost inventory exploit' that AQ was accused of.  In fact, the 3 people who were banned all died inside the keep from earthquaking.  Any false flagged items viewed by the GM's were flagged as such due to having just died inside the keep, and the items were on the corpses.

The entire mess was Discord's fault for poor analysis of evidence and his "100% proof" turns out to be 0% proof.

I would appreciate if Theia would publically reply to this thread, since I know you follow MMORPG.  It would be good to have an official statement from SV.

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To address a few other points:  it has come to my attention that someone from AQ used a yellow account to chat spam the enemy after the initial bans were given.  AQ does not condone the use of such an exploit, and it is a stain on the name that it happened.  I personally apologize that such a thing happened; it is not classy.  As an older member of AQ, all I can say is that young raging kids will be young raging kids and it never would have happened if it were not for 'false' GM bans.

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As far as keeps being destroyed, SV has said they will release the results of that investigation.  I personally hope an AQ member did not have anything to do with it.  I can tell you the majority of AQ don't know anything about it, and if someone does they aren't talking about it.  

The bottom line is that GM's should never be allowed to have guild affiliations.  They should not have ever played the game as to eliminate any bias for friends.  The volunteer GM program should simply not exist, and is another example of a fundamental leadership failure within Starvault.  

 

 

Plain and simple Discord is an idiot.  I do not know why he is a member of the team still.  I remember the days of him porting 13's engineers all over the map for BIzzy so they did not have to walk to set up a catapult.

What should of happened un the middle of the siege is for him to delete the suspicious item (which was only food) and then after the seige figure out what happened.  To just ban people in the middle of a siege for having food on your corpse is insane.

MO is very buggy I have died many times since playing and rez and still have gear on me that I shouldn't of.  No exploit by me at all.  but if a random GM came by it sounds like I would of been banned for still having my sword on my corpse even tho I did nothing to make it happen.

Also GM Theia may not be able to respond here.  He gets "vacations" for advertising.

Which one of you nerd raged and tryed to destroy the server after the first set of events took place.

An account got hacked my a@@.

This taken from the RIP AQ thread pretty much somes up sieges in MO.  And exploits and not knowing if it is an exploit or not.

http://www.mortalonline.com/forums/72405-r-i-p-aq-3.html#post1276030

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best post in this thread. ++
No siege without game- and especially staff troubles. 
SV needs to fix stuff like that much more quicker or at least make a clear statement about "allowed and not allowed". And if they do so give penalties to ppl. sometimes i got the feeling sv doesnt want to ban known exploiters and cheaters goes evey payment counts. 

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i'm totaly fine to die against an enemy, who is better then me, but it cant be right to die, cos the enemy knows tricks, which i dont know yet.

And the real sad thing is: same will happen in larger scales during sieges.


greetings"

I find it pretty hard to believe that an admin account was "hacked" At best he gave the password to someone else to do this. Worst case he did it himself.

Originally posted by TruthXHurts

I find it pretty hard to believe that an admin account was "hacked" At best he gave the password to someone else to do this. Worst case he did it himself.

I for one do not think it was a "hacker".  How would a person who just hacked the account know where to go instantly to destroy in game items, ban accounts.  I am sure it was an actual GM who was quitting the game.  Or was pissed off at the game.

Originally posted by psykobilly

 

About an hour ago, GM Theia came into the AQ teamspeak and apologized for the initial bans that kicked off the entire mess.  It turns out that Discord fundamentally misinterpreted the evidence of the 'ghost inventory exploit' that AQ was accused of.  In fact, the 3 people who were banned all died inside the keep from earthquaking.  Any false flagged items viewed by the GM's were flagged as such due to having just died inside the keep, and the items were on the corpses.

The entire mess was Discord's fault for poor analysis of evidence and his "100% proof" turns out to be 0% proof.

I would appreciate if Theia would publically reply to this thread, since I know you follow MMORPG.  It would be good to have an official statement from SV.

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To address a few other points:  it has come to my attention that someone from AQ used a yellow account to chat spam the enemy after the initial bans were given.  AQ does not condone the use of such an exploit, and it is a stain on the name that it happened.  I personally apologize that such a thing happened; it is not classy.  As an older member of AQ, all I can say is that young raging kids will be young raging kids and it never would have happened if it were not for 'false' GM bans.

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As far as keeps being destroyed, SV has said they will release the results of that investigation.  I personally hope an AQ member did not have anything to do with it.  I can tell you the majority of AQ don't know anything about it, and if someone does they aren't talking about it.  

The bottom line is that GM's should never be allowed to have guild affiliations.  They should not have ever played the game as to eliminate any bias for friends.  The volunteer GM program should simply not exist, and is another example of a fundamental leadership failure within Starvault.  

 

 

Where post on official forum????

what about yellow characters???? u crushed  ppl 

what about  remove FEAR , RUS  and ODIN keep????

Originally posted by sandboxluv

Originally posted by TruthXHurts

I find it pretty hard to believe that an admin account was "hacked" At best he gave the password to someone else to do this. Worst case he did it himself.

I for one do not think it was a "hacker".  How would a person who just hacked the account know where to go instantly to destroy in game items, ban accounts.  I am sure it was an actual GM who was quitting the game.  Or was pissed off at the game.

true if the guy just took over the Gm account he wont know the secret command to fly around and ban ppl.

Originally posted by Tacan

Where post on official forum????

what about yellow characters???? u crushed  ppl 

what about  remove FEAR , RUS  and ODIN keep????

Our part in this is over.  I just want to set the record straight:  SV GM's fucked up.  The initial bans were completely unjustified.

I don't approve of using yellows to chat spam, or destroying in game assets unjustly, and neither does AQ as a whole.

Either way you don't need to worry about it going forward:  71 AQ accounts unsubbed and growing.

Originally posted by psykobilly

Originally posted by Tacan

Where post on official forum????

what about yellow characters???? u crushed  ppl 

what about  remove FEAR , RUS  and ODIN keep????

 

Our part in this is over.  I just want to set the record straight:  SV GM's fucked up.  The initial bans were completely unjustified.

I don't approve of using yellows to chat spam, or destroying in game assets unjustly, and neither does AQ as a whole.

Either way you don't need to worry about it going forward:  71 AQ accounts unsubbed and growing.

 

71....100...200  good bye

You talked a long time what you are honest. but it was not so.

AQ exploiters, and   cheaters!!!

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Originally posted by psykobilly

Originally posted by Tacan

Where post on official forum????

what about yellow characters???? u crushed  ppl 

what about  remove FEAR , RUS  and ODIN keep????

 

Our part in this is over.  I just want to set the record straight:  SV GM's fucked up.  The initial bans were completely unjustified.

I don't approve of using yellows to chat spam, or destroying in game assets unjustly, and neither does AQ as a whole.

Either way you don't need to worry about it going forward:  71 AQ accounts unsubbed and growing.

 

So basically AQ was unjustly banned for exploiting so you decided to exploit. Yeah...makes sense.

Originally posted by Lustien

I bet those guys are banned and your just lying about a gm saying sorry to make your guild look better.

LOL. Tinfoil hats!

Im one of those who unsubbed, and if I was at home I could log in either account for you no problem.

Originally posted by ltank

So basically AQ was unjustly banned for exploiting so you decided to exploit. Yeah...makes sense.

 

I wish I didnt have to say this but yes you are pretty much right. But please remember it was only a few who decided this, many of us had no part in it.

This is an example of why I will not join guilds or participate in wars in MO and play as a lonewolf now. Too many 'things' can go wrong, whether its game bugs/exploitable mechanics, exploiters, or just plain losing everything because so many other guilds hate you(for little to no reason other than you are blue-RP, a-hem Wsx).

Originally posted by xDayx

This is an example of why I will not join guilds or participate in wars in MO and play as a lonewolf now. Too many 'things' can go wrong, whether its game bugs/exploitable mechanics, exploiters, or just plain losing everything because so many other guilds hate you(for little to no reason other than you are blue-RP, a-hem Wsx).

Not only MO but pretty much most MMOs. That's why I prefer to play solo/small guild. See, we can agree on some things.

Originally posted by Cyde77

I wish I didnt have to say this but yes you are pretty much right. But please remember it was only a few who decided this, many of us had no part in it.

only few) no Cyde ...u all exploiters all guild AQ

how many was banned??? u all know about   exploit and use it.

Originally posted by kakasaki

Originally posted by xDayx

This is an example of why I will not join guilds or participate in wars in MO and play as a lonewolf now. Too many 'things' can go wrong, whether its game bugs/exploitable mechanics, exploiters, or just plain losing everything because so many other guilds hate you(for little to no reason other than you are blue-RP, a-hem Wsx).

Not only MO but pretty much most MMOs. That's why I prefer to play solo/small guild. See, we can agree on some things.

 Yes we can. Kakasaki Ive always thought you were more level headed than the standard fare.

I was one of the people who told the GM's that we thought AQ were bringing supplies in on dead characters. This was because we kept seeing ghost characters like SHIT constantly running in and out of the keep, people we never saw rezzed. We reported it to the GM's, who said they would scan ghost characters who were entering the keep, and after about 2 hours some AQ accounts got banned.

I personally have been banned unjustly before (banned for looting the brb house by Gradius even though I had the key in my inventory when he banned me) and was one of the people prepared to believe AQ when they said they were banned wrongly.

However after the bans began, AQ crashed large amounts of the attacking forces with Yellow characters AND launched co-ordinated attacks from the keep when we were crashed. This leads me to believe it wasn't just one or two rogue members crashing people. You guys knew you were crashing us. Not to mention the fact that apparantly people like Zoltan went all out and started speedhacking too (what I'm told, I have no evidence).

Either way I respected a lot of people in AQ but playing the whole "We're innocent " card and then exploiting and cheating the fuck out of the game doesn't do anything to validate your claim. What you were doing also leads me to believe it was an AQ member who used the GM account to wreak havoc ingame.

I'm sorry this happened, I wish it hadn't and there are still members such as Cyde who I respect but I can't trust you guys on face value after what you did and seeing as we have heard nothing from the GM's about it we are only hearing your side of the story and I don't want to draw any conclusions from that alone.

-Reynik

your so far from the truth its maddening the yellow character incident is sadly true but it was just up to a single individual doing it.

The fact you would even suspect aq of transporting shit on a ghost is pathetic they are veterans and had 2 players ressing players inside the keep while there was horses fully stocked with gear, food , arrows on the inside.

There was no exploiting going on at all and the rezzers were long time veterans who has been nothing but loyaly to the company for years. Discords behavior in handling this matter is what made 90% of AQ to unsub, its unacceptable and has happened to many times to be overlook any longer.