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Post: 7714575_1 created on Fri, 13 May 2005 10:04:29 +0000
Posted: Fri, 13 May 2005 10:04:29 +0000

As of May 7th there had been a bug which allowed users to earn gold at a very fast rate.

A lot of users had taken this opportunity to run bots and scripts to obtain a lot of gold. As a result, those users had a lot of gold to buy rare items and donation items at very high prices.

The problem had now been fixed, and all the accounts who took advantage of the exploit will be punished. However, the current prices of items in the market place had gone up by way too much.

We are currently scanning through the system to see if we can reverse the damage in a small scale. But if we cannot do that, then we will have no choice but to perform a 4 day roll back.

We are very sorry to all users who are affected by the current event. We are still working hard to seek a less drastic solution. Please stay tuned for more information. sweatdrop

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Post: 7714575_2 created on Fri, 13 May 2005 14:53:35 +0000
Posted: Fri, 13 May 2005 14:53:35 +0000

After the initial checking, it looks like there had been more than 80 million gold created due to the bug, with hundreds of accounts accumulated more than 20,000 gold. There are simply too many accounts to be reversed by hand.

At the same time, the bug only happened to half the users on Gaia, meaning that if we do not perform a rollback, half the users would be richer than the other half by millions of gold, and that is simply unfair.

A rollback is being prepared right now, and in a short moment, Gaia will be down while the rollback take place. User accounts will be restored to their state on May 9th. Other parts of Gaia such as the forums or art arena will not be affected by the rollback.

Compensation to all users is being calculated and the gold / items will be granted shortly after the rollback is complete.

Once again, I'm very sorry for having to do this to everyone. Appropriate measures will be done to prevent anything similar from happening in the future.

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