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04-22-2012, 03:56 PM
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Hacking/Modding
I've been reading about several instances of somebody using a hack/mod to change the game to their advantage, or allow their pirate to do things that others can't. There are also people who hijack other accounts, but that was already covered here a few months back.
Something that happened today prompted me to make this thread. This topic was already in my mind, and this happened by coincidence. It was about half an hour after I'd got online. I was standing on Tortuga on the Lempona ocean, and I had just finished speaking to a person who had approached me. I switched away from the game briefly, and came back to find someone running around the beach. I looked at the chat log to see that he had changed the colour of his text and it was in Italics. He ran to the sea and started running around on top of it, instead of swimming.  Soon after that he ran back to the beach and started running in midair. He wrote a couple of identical messages in black and continued running.  Finally, he fell down into the ground and started running around with only his head showing. I didn't get a screenshot of it, but by then he had drawn a crowd. There were lots of 'LOL's and 'This is hilarious!' but I didn't find it the least bit funny. While I am on this topic, I would also like to warn about someone posting outside links to a URL that downloads a virus to your computer. I read on a website to do with POTCO (can't say it on this site) that the player was targeting that website, Pirates Forums and POF. Be careful with any outside links you find, and only click on them if you're certain they're safe. If the virus is downloaded to your computer, the attacker will have access to it. Please be careful. POTCO is still a safe place, and so are the forums. I'm just raising awareness that this sort of thing goes on, so it doesn't happen to you. Chances are low that we'll even encounter this person spreading the virus, because the mods will quickly edit out any suspicious outside links. Just watch out if you're sent a PM by somebody unfamiliar, telling you to check a link out or something. Back to the hacker today. I've sent an email to Disney with these pictures, and hopefully he'll be put to justice. Unfortunately I'm confident that this was a noob account, but I think Disney does IP bans. It really angers me how some players change the game to their advantage. It's 100% cheating, and needs to be stopped. Last edited by Dark_Pixie; 04-29-2012 at 04:51 PM.. |
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04-22-2012, 04:03 PM
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I agree this is just sad! This needs to stop and fast.
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04-22-2012, 04:23 PM
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I can never understand people who do this sort of thing. What is the point of cheating? Where is your feeling of accomplishment when you make it to 50th level or whatever?
"I'm so proud, man. I hacked my way to the top in no time at all." Enjoy the game. Crimson Rose |
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04-27-2012, 09:08 PM
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I don't care to understand why they cheat or hack someone's work just to prove they can. It is just plain wrong. And frankly when they are caught, they won't find a sympathetic ear from me. I'm too tempted to knock them right back down or kick them out the door, so to speak. I have zero tolerance for such people. Last edited by Brain; 04-27-2012 at 11:07 PM.. Reason: Naming names |
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04-28-2012, 04:22 PM
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Well obviously they don't want to have to do anything on their own, which is quite pathetic. But DP, what you described seems more like glitching or using a program to glitch it. A CHEAT program on the other hand, would probably give them abilities others don't have, like that auto attacking one, or getting more rep than you would be given from quests, etc.
I've gone through walls using a glitch that my friends and I figured out a LONG time ago back in '07/'08, but never did we use programs. We just went in, and we're walking on something that looked like the sky (most likely was since the sun wasn't above us but looked like it was on the ground.) and we just found ways to keep walking up in the sky, and walking down lower as well. But we never downloaded programs. That was like our little hangout xD |
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04-29-2012, 01:45 AM
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They use to a certain program to mod the game. I obviously did not use it at all. The problem is, the game is so big that it's vulnerable to easy exploits like this. Like runescape and rgsp bots. I hope this will get fixed. For now it's not though.
Last edited by Brain; 04-29-2012 at 02:53 AM.. Reason: Cited certain names |
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04-29-2012, 05:18 AM
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I have in fact seen numerous videos of the glitcher/hacker guy. DP, if it's ok, do you think you could PM me those screenshots? The videos didnt do that, the videos showed that you could increase speed, and weapon timing as well as removing the cooldown on skills, and the charge-up on skills. They may or may not be of the same origin.
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04-29-2012, 03:27 PM
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04-29-2012, 04:02 PM
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Sad to say, but this isn't new to Disney MMOs. Many people have began glitching, hacking, and exploiting many aspects of the different Disney MMOs. Many do it because they're bored or just wish to cheat. Frankly, it ruins the game for many of us other players that just wish to play the game as it was intended by Disney. Many of us grew up enjoying the various aspects of Disney's productions and just wish to experience their MMOs for what they are.
Sure, Disney could do a better job at the MMOs, make more updates to them, and other various aspects to the games themselves. I can't help but feel they are so busy trying to remove glitches and trying to figure out how to combat hackers and cheaters that they just don't have the time or money to deal with just adding new content to the games. Which is a real shame for the majority of us. There could be so much more to the games, if they didn't have to deal with such obvious abuse of the MMOs by some. For example: POF was the first MMO to allow linked accounts. If you had 1 account that was had a paying membership, you could link other accounts of your family to it so your entire family could play together as a pay membership account. This was one of the greatest aspects of the game and my entire family took advantage of this. We had a lot of fun playing together on several occasions. This became almost a nightly event for my family, we had such a good time together. This was removed later by POF because people used linked accounts to avoid their banned status of their paying membership accounts. Guess as the saying goes, it only takes a few bad apples.. My family no longer plays POF together. Quote:
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04-29-2012, 04:51 PM
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04-29-2012, 10:01 PM
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Cool pics, DP.
On a youtube channel this guy makes videos on his "mods" which are really just illegal hacks, and in one he taunts disney members. Do you think if we mailed the videos to disney enough they would acknowlege whats going on and take action for it? |
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05-03-2012, 12:23 AM
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05-05-2012, 12:25 AM
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The term "hack" can be used loosely here. There are 2 ways it can be used.
1) Someone getting unattended access to something they haven't. This is what is illegal. 2) Modification. A hack is also modifying/tweaking something. This doesn't necessarily have to be illegal. What I'm seeing here are exploits. Members of POTCO find exploits in the game and find ways to tweak it to do some things they consider cool or fun. - Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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05-05-2012, 05:04 AM
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But the exploits are getting them access to something they dont have - IE: Super speed, coloured chat, ect.
Even if they are modding it, the ability to mod it without permission makes it illegal. |
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