Hacking/Modding

[Dark_Pixie]

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.