Originally posted by Kenze

I just resubed to Station access like 4or5 days ago... i wonder if this data breach also includes the  "verified by visa" info i had to give to sub?

this is just terrible all around   dang you SOE and these crackers all the heck!

 

sorry for the rough languae

 

It won't. VBV/Mastercard Securecode (aka 3DSecure) is an extra layer of security handled by your issuing bank to ensure you are who you say you are. At most, when the exchange occurs (which happens between your browser and your bank's servers) the vendor - in this case SOE - get an authentication token back that they may store, but is pretty much useless.

Short version:

1. You enter your CC data.

2. SOE process it and get a request for VBV/Mastercard Securecode back from your issuing bank.

3. You enter your details into an interface provided by your BANK (though it may look like it's a part of the vendor's website).

4. Bank okays or denies the transaction with the vendor.

Sorry for the off-topic. plz gief back pre-CU SWG. thx.

Originally posted by kamenwati

Cadence.

You see, I had a problem with that; as a Riftstalker, I tried slotting Bard and what I found was, I'd be a whirling Dervish of blade and fury, striking my enemies and spraying blood in all directions and then; I'd pause, run a brief legato and maybe hit a power chord, then get back to the killing.

It just didn't feel cool.

Played a Riftstalker/Bladedancer/Assassin (0 in Assassin, just for the basic poisons) from beta4 and loved it - tanking as a rogue really is fun. Then I fell in love with my Necro/Warlock/Chloro. So I'll probably mix it up with both on two characters.

Originally posted by Czanrei

To those who try to say it's realistic in that aspect are dilusional. If it were a real world situation, governments would be hunting down those terrosists that attack civilians trying to mine. 

Which is exactly what happens when you take enough of a sec hit for killing players in high-security space.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?38728-Beta-5-Extended!

Enjoy!

At level 15, you'll find quests in Meridian for the other souls - you say you've picked up the quest for Reaver already. Next;

1. Help close a rift. Any rift will do. This will reward you with a yellow shard.
2. Use the item in your inventory you got from the quest - or click the icon next to the quest log. This will create a tear to the plane of death and bring through the tortured soul of the quest you're on (in this case, Reaver). Or in vanilla terms - summon a mob.
3. Kill the mob.
4. Target the remains of the mob and use the quest item to capture its soul.
5. Return to the quest giver. Voila, new soul.

Nasty lisp you have there DarkPony

Originally posted by King_Kumquat

Originally posted by Mulli

Yep, there was one of each added for each language when the shards came up briefly an hour ago. Still not sign of RP policies though as far as I know and how well they'll be enforced (though given Trion's excellent customer service so far, I'm hopeful).

They're going to be RP preferred servers btw. Which always means there's not going to be any enforcement. 

They'll probably keep a naming policy in effect at most. That'd be nice enough.

Ah, good to know. Thanks for the heads-up Kingy!

Yep, there was one of each added for each language when the shards came up briefly an hour ago. Still not sign of RP policies though as far as I know and how well they'll be enforced (though given Trion's excellent customer service so far, I'm hopeful).

New servers came up first. First new PvP server I saw (EU, EN) filled in ~5 minutes. Old servers came up. I logged into Blightweald. Servers came down. Forums shortly after.

Spending my time drinking cider and smirking at people posting "game has failed already, cant log in, /quit." on the Rift forums (when they work).

Quizzical is spot on. Typically an application developer will (if they have any sense of security - and you'd be surprised how many don't) use some form of one-way hashing function on the password. Hash functions (e.g. MD5) aren't the be all and end all of password security as they can be brute forced. In fact there are plenty of sources of rainbow tables which can be used to drastically cut down on the time taken to brute force a hashed password - the attackers machine doesn't need to waste CPU cycles crunching plaintext to hashes and comparing them against the known hash as the rainbow tables contain dictionaries of precomputed hashes.

One additional defense is to "salt" your passwords before hashing. You take the password "password" for example. A straight MD5 hash of this yields the hash:

5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99

Try Googling it. You'll find lots of hits.

Now we salt the password. We take 8 random characters only we know about and we add them to the end of the password, yielding "passwordha7%fm.@". The hash for our salted password is:

202b4720a1858edce59a2559566c553d

MUCH more difficult to brute force and very, very unlikely to match against any known set of rainbow tables. In order to get the salt as well the attacker would need to have successfully reverse engineered the server software (because of course...NO ONE would be stupid enough to store things like salts and hash functions client-side...right developers, right?)

I don't endorse this attackers behaviour at all. I'm a software developer with some experience of working with information security (penetration tests, ethical hacks, security audits). I try to stay on top of this sort of thing to ensure my software is as resilient as it can be against such attacks. Ultimately the responsibility lies with the developer to ensure their software (and your personal information) is secure and unfortunately, experience tells me, that is often not the case.

Example: a quest hub foothold

That was me logging on, on Sunday morning to find the small hub I had logged off at had a foothold slap bang in the middle of it. Fortunately, I'd had the common sense to hide in a tent the night before

To clear the foothold, you need to destroy the abyssal idol (hence in the quest on the right of the UI that appears when you're close enough to the foothold) - basically that organic structure in the middle of the camp. Otherwise, it just keeps spawning more and more mobs and the invasion starts to spread.

More screenshots in that directory from last weekends beta4 if interested.

Yep. From the Buddy Program T&Cs:

Eligible subscription activations can be funded by Credit/Debit cards, Direct Debit, WebMoney Transfer, paysafecard, ETC, PLEX, iDeal and PayPal.

Payments not eligible for this offer: CD Keys, including CD Keys purchased or received from non-CCP sources and online stores such as, but not limited to: Steam Store, Direct2Drive, Gamers Gate, Impulse Driven.

edit: interesting that it worked for you though...I too thought they'd patched this as CCP deemed it an exploit. Odd.

That sounds pretty damned cool - especially that final example. PQs on steroids indeed!

-waves @Ara- 'sup bud?

It's, they're waiting on DNS to propagate...

http://twitter.com/jumpgateEvo

I have to agree with the positive comments here. I unsubscribed six hours after I bought the game (just after launch), resubscribed last summer and played for a few months (alt-oholic...) before un-subbing to try out a few other games. I re-subbed last night (new machine...oh how I love thee DX10) and I'm really enjoying myself again.

True, the combat system isn't for everyone but it makes a change from simple button mashing - even if it's a case of it being complicated button mashing. I've spent the last few hours trying to remember the best sequence of combos for my 71 Bear Shaman...tricky.

Tonight will see me mashing a few villas quests, maybe trying to find a group for the Amphitheatre and enjoying some light RP. Good luck on your adventures, OP. Try and get a group for Black Castle or Sanctum or level up a bit and visit The Pyramid of the Ancients (just get a few beers in first and put a few hours aside...) - there is lots more fun awaiting you!

Yeah, the post by Scott got the IRC channel a bit more lively last night, not least of all as it seems that the development time since the F&F feedback last summer seems to have favoured the PvP and squad crowd. No bad thing, in my opinion.

And Scott Brown isn't a dev (well, he is in that he was one of the programmers for Jumpgate: TRI/Classic back in the studio's roots) - he's one of the co-founders and the President of NetDevil

edit: clarification

I got burnt out on the RP angle, co-maintaining one of the EU RP communities. I should have listened to Gossip when he told me "It's tough work running a Jumpgate community site, mate..."

That said, I'm still working out what and/or whether to do something this time around. Looking forward to some RP-PvP in JGE, re-establishing "friendly" rivalries, that sort of thing...

It probably merits its own thread, but...

community.codemasters.com/forum/jumpgate-development-chat-1081/409396-least-some-form-update.html

Should keep the PvP naysayers a little happier

Originally posted by Justarius1

I wouldn't touch that Finnish development company with a ten foot pole, and I like the Finns.  Quiet but charming people. ;)

Good job they're not Finnish, but Icelandic then

+1 for Ryzom by the way. Agreed with all the previous points about it being a little dated and changing hands a lot, but it's a great little game and has one of the best communities I've come across.