Mortal Online GM Shenanigans

#Calix
#Bibi

GM Shenanigans

Clone of https://pastebin.com/M4pz5yGp

Alfie posted more about this in the other topic, but I was keeping with the NDA I signed - which is about as valid as a used roll of toilet paper since I never got a copy signed by both parties. So yes, I'm HC Calix and Bibi was GM Tiamat.

Every single bug Prometheus found - and every single bug you guys told me for my "Bug Compedium" - was posted by me, on the GM forums for the Devs to read. If I wanted to abuse the information I was privy to, we could have duped enough gold to build 10 keeps - indeed, there was an exploit to purchase 30 keep deeds for 1 silver, so we could have gotten 30 keep deeds. The day thieving was implemented, you could dupe stolen items by stacking them endlessly on things. So, steal 1000 bone tissue, split stack, put 999 on 1 gold coin, voila, 1000 gold coins. Rule of thumb, every patch brings 1-5 major exploits and 1 dupe method.

Bibi has been set up as a scapegoat in Starvault for Henrik's failed business moves (they postponed loans, invested with money they didn't have yet, etc). Can't go into exact details, because of legal matters. She has been removed from the GM staff, and I've been found guilty by association - removed from the GM staff and permabanned on the forums. All by Community Manager Maerlyn, while the Lead GM Pompeii was on vacation. He was supposed to be back today (Tuesday), but we have been informed by friends in the GM staff that Henrik declared a blackout on communications against us. So in effect, Pompeii refused to talk to us. We had to find out we've "left the team" (as Maerlyn told everyone) from a fellow Counselor. In addition to that, we've had our game-vouchers(compensation that GM's get, free gametime) removed ~1-2 hours after being kicked off the team with no notice, or explanation.

Bibi(Epaphus, Animus, Tiamat) and myself (Calix) were the EU Game Support. Two volunteers. The only paid staff is Pompeii (Lead GM) and Discord (GM), who is only paid (100$ a month) for rebooting the server during US time.

Every hacker we've banned, has been unbanned inside 3 days - usually by sending a PM to Henrik, then Henrik comes screaming in Ventrillo why was Person X banned. Or, they wouldn't bother with even that, they'd just be in-game again the next day; usually the way to avoid a permaban is to go into game account and change the username. This was employed by Russian who was permabanned a whopping 7 times, on the 8th time he was "permabanned" we were told to stop banning him because he gave information about exploits and pays 3 subscriptions.

No exploiters, no hackers, no cheaters, no dupers have been banned. No duped in-game items were removed, the only removed items were all the question-mark items because they didn't know how to fix it. Up to about a month ago, the only "means of hack detection" were the same as the regular player - fraps it. Only advantage we had is that we could fly invisible, and we were still detected by 3rd party radar programs.

So to cut the long story short, we got screwed and scammed of the gametime we earned (game-vouchers are awarded after a month's work).

I don't intend to subscribe for this month. We've discussed this endlessly with the officers, some of them like Predator don't seem to intend to pay their subs anymore, some like Nidhogg have 3-month subs running and are a bit screwed. Next month, I'll reconsider if there's anything to really return to - I suspect SV will go bankrupt soon, since I can confirm that during prime-time EU there is ~300 people playing on the server.

Personally, I regret even getting involved in Mortal Online. The only reasons why I'm leaving it open that I might return after a month; is that I don't want to see a year's worth of hard work by the guild go to waste, and there is nothing out there for CIR to play.

In my absence, I leave Sengyr in charge of CIR's MO division. It has been a privilege and a great satisfaction to be playing with you guys and building something truly great; you can be proud in the fact that out of all the constructed keeps on the server, ours is the only one constructed with legitimate gold.