Tonight\'s Events

That's an easy one Jeff, since we've had a lot of warnings from the guilds that got disbanded, we have taken every precaution there is! We have no JRs in GUILD and our GUILDMASTER NEVER LOGS ON! Therefore, IF and that's a big IF we survive this and that's because we have done everything to save our GUILD! We've never tolerated HACKING IN THIS GUILD AND THAT'S A KNOWN FACT THROUGH BELLO!

Believe me there's still a lot of guilds out there that still exists! AlandCrew, Affinity, Encore and so on are still intact!

Your JRs are diligent researchers, we are doing everything we can as we speak to find out more about this!

Hozama wrote:

I just had a terrible thought. Don't get me wrong, I hope nothing happens to us, but it could look very bad for us if nothing happens at all. If all these major guilds are being disbanded, and Aeons remains completly intact, it may give the average player the impression that we have some relation with these hackers. If the #1 guild remains untouched while every other big guild dies, it'll completly smash our rep as legit players. It might not be a bad idea to prepare a speach or something in case we start to take the blame.

Relax Jeff.

Rose wrote:

On a different note...IF the worse were to happen and we all get expelled from Aeons and have to form another guild... at least we know we can beat the #1 rank guild of Bellocan eventually since they wont be GPQing anymore

I heard that, they used to do hit-and-run GPQ style cuz they loved GPQ so much but they didnt have CB to ME Ergoth. When they got to boss, the hit the Rubian and run their tails off. They did this style and got 90 points per GPQ and they kept doing this til the guild got to 3200 guild points. Thats alot of points for a noob guild.

Now we are pro with lot of experienced CBs and good fund, we can get max 940 points per run. We can beat them easy in no time.

Well, just keep it in the back of your mind. Maple Players have a tendancy to jump at the first thing that makes a lick of sence, and that something may just be us. Even if it's completly unfounded, rumors have a tendancy to spread. We may have a good rep among the main-stream guilds, but the smaller ones may be a different issue.

This is the first event of its kind in the history of GMS, so the average player may not know what to make of it. Right now, we're the prey and someone is hunting us. Dosn't matter if they have specific targets, or just anyone they can find, we're on the recieving end. We've taken a good approch, we've basicly locked the guild down, but be aware that the longer this keeps up, the more paranoid the players will become. If this keeps up, eventually, they're gonna start looking for someone close by they can blame. And as long as we're not affected, we're a target for that blame, more so since we're ranked #1. PR outside the game is as important as rep inside it.

Now, if there was an outside chat room or forum where the Masters/ representatives of the major guilds could meet far beyond the borders of the game, that would be the safest way to meet and exchange information.

there is...Bellardia, I believe is what Pauline and the JRs are saying. Trust them, they know many of the ldrs and JRs of the other major guilds and are in contact with them. All are concerned with this and are trying to sort everything out as best as possible.

As for PR...those that matter know the truth, those that wish to believe other than the facts presented to them must live with their beliefs, not us. As the old saying goes: 'Stick and Stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.'
Besides, what would be the reasoning for the Aeons to do this to other guilds, especially since we ARE ranked #1? We havent had any real competition for first place in some time now, and some of the guilds affected last night werent even on the Honor Rock to begin with (for example, does WallStreet even GPQ? I've only seen them hogging spots in the FM room 1).

btw...LMAO at hit-and-run GPQs!!! at least you remembered to RUN :D

Thanks Rose~ Much appreciated!

A thought came to mind (uh-oh here goes Marie again)...one of the BIG reasons why we may have been safe from last night's problem, as far as I know, we didn't have any guild members merchanting (at least I didn't think so).

Why I say that?! The guilds that got hit last night always have members on a regular basis merchanting on FM1 especially WALLSTREET!

So again, if we could have members use their GUILDLESS CHARACTERS TO MERCHANT, it would be much appreciated!

Actually I had my shop opened the whole yesterday til 8 PM.

Exactly, 8pm...the hacking started after that while you were training with Pauline. I was browsing FM 1 as well yesterday before 8pm!

I'm saying is DURING THE HACKING no one was in FM 1 from our guild!

From what I've been reading, guilds are still being taken over throughout this morning. I've read the only safe way to be protected is to have all members leave and have the master account not get on until this problem is resolved. Then, all members would be readded. I know some guilds have done this, and it's sad that this is what things have had to come down to. If you look around at the lists of destroyed guilds, it's horrible.

It's sad that these guild names, as of right now, can't be retrieved either causing many guilds to lose their names for good. :/

I've said my piece, so I'll leave this topic for now. I hope this blows over soon, I really do.

i have also read many threads about his on other forums. we have all igns of every single member right? If we get hit, wait till the next server check/patch and re-add all members back! then......gpq gpq gpq gpq

i noticed that both of those hackers and hacers names that i saw on other webs had an impossible name with the tm sign or with wayyyy too many letters

Please read:

http://forum.nexon.net/MapleStory/fo...ad/907588.aspx

Now that I know about the risk, Catastrophe (Still very few people) is now an Inactive guild...

No CPQing for a while then -.-
(Pirate is the leader and my CPQ char)


*EDIT*
If you do make the accessability of the site to Members and Jrs...
Could I ask to be placed as a member temp to keep undated?

i just want to let everyone know that i trust our leaders compleatly, there judgment has not been off so far. we will make it through this fiasco one way or another.

If you want us to leave, then I'll go online and leave, but what about the folks who never use this site?
This explanation of Packet Editing is not my own and is only here as information to what is going on:

Packets are how a mutliplayer game communicates with whatever it's talking to (server, another game). Whenever you do something in the game, the game might send a packet out to the server saying what you did. Packets are how the server knows where you are and where you are moving to. It's how other people know as well. Without packets, you could move around in your game, but no one else would see you moving. When you browse the internet, your browser sends packets out asking for a website. The website it receives is also in packets. Messages you send over the internet are in packets. Everything you do on the internet uses packets of some sort.
What can you do with packets? That really depends on the game. With some games, you can have full control over everything. With others, packets can do next to nothing. How can you know what you can do? Experimentation is the only way. Once you figure out how to send the correct packets, you can try and see if the game reacts how you wanted.
Will packets always work? No. It depends on how the game was programmed. By this, I mean the way the game/server handles packets. You can only find out what works and doesn't work by trying. Some things will appear to work, but actually won't work at all. In most multiplayer games, everything of importance will be checked against information the server has. You have to use packets in order to attempt to trick the server.
Packet Editing/Sniffing tools are very popular hacking programs generally used only to hack multiplayer games such as MS. Most game developers have known of these programs and their uses. Most of the games we play have Hacking Prevention systems that block DLL injections to their games, there will always be a way to bypass the system.

So basically some kid was just doing some trial and error with his hacking program and stumbled across killing guilds >.>

i want to see a full length movie made by the people of lord of the rings dictating the events of this event

"all names have been changed in order to protect the inocent"

god that would be awsome

IsaacGS wrote:

it randomly assigns someone a semi-"leader" status. That person is trapped in the guild. There's no way to know who it is, though it seems to go for Jr. Masters first. When Calamity was destroyed, I warned them to demote everyone from Junior status, but it didn't help much, and people still got trapped. The best advice I can think of is that if you feel like your guild is about to be hit by this, demote everyone below Jr Master except for one mule, so that if it gets stuck it won't matter.

Isaac (from the sleepywood forums) has a good idea. Keeping one mule with a Jr. Master status wouldn't be a bad idea, just in case. We don't technically have a Master anyways, since Dal left long ago, so appointing a temp Master like that would be our best bet in keeping the guild around, seeing as there must be at least one person left in the guild.