Second Coil Turn 3 cheating - Players suspendedFollow

2014/04/03 14:24 Regarding Illegitimate Practices in “The Second Coil of Bahamut” (Apr. 3)

Following the implementation of Patch 2.2, we have identified several parties that used illegitimate practices in “The Second Coil of Bahamut”. As this is a violation of the Terms of Service, 24 service accounts that used such illegitimate practices in “The Second Coil of Bahamut - Turn 3” have been suspended.

※As of April 1, 2014 at 1:00 a.m., only two parties have legitimately completed “The Second Coil of Bahamut - Turn 3”. Game data since then has been closely monitored.

Although we will continue to monitor game data to ensure that similar illegitimate practices are not being used, we would like to remind players that using third-party programs, parsers, or other tools to conduct actions players would not normally be able to do in the game is a violation of the Terms of Service, and will be dealt with strict disciplinary action.

Players who discover any confirmed cheats should, under no circumstances, exploit or disseminate such information. Instead, we ask that players file a report by using the in-game command [System Menu] -> [Support Desk] -> [Contact Us] -> [Report Cheating].

Ban is about the same as a suspension because it doesn't take very long to get back to where you were even if you had to start over from scratch Smiley: frown

Kind of... I guess a super-determined hardcore player could get back to i90 in two or three weeks maybe, if he/she doesn't have any kind of classes or full-time jobs to attend to. But they can kiss their other jobs goodbye, as well as all the hours spent leveling/gearing them up.

It's still satisfying.

I dunno, when I saw the Scorpion Harnesses and Haubergeons going from 16,000,000 and 19,000,000 respectively go down to 50-100k each in the matter of a couple months, I'd have to say I was satisfied that they were fixing the economy.

Two Blugartr teams are the only ones to have legitimately beat turn 8 as of April 1. Three other parties from what is being described as "no name" FCs beat turn 7 and 8 on the same day and I believe on the same day as Blugartr. The groups were on Sargantenus (I probably butchered that) and it was shown that they used position hacking. They were permanently banned.

The known "pros" dedicate 14 hour days to beating the content. Anyone who would spend that much time repeating new content would eventually win, unless you were absolutely horrible at this game. If you look at Bluegartr's applications, they require you to be free during content releases for 12-14 hours a day. Now, not saying they took that much time to beat the new turns, but Turn 5, they were at it for awhile. And no, I'm not mentioning this cause I'm jealous, cause if I was young again with no job and all the time in the world on my hands, I'd be doing the same thing!

And yes, HQ items stayed expensive as hell. That's to be expected; for every 1 HQ there were how many NQs floating around, and non-hardcore players more than willing to use the NQs, again? HQs were more of a 'status symbol' than anything (well except for the staves, maybe) unless you were really into hardcore endgame.