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Our quickest Alpha Two updates are in Discord. Testers with Alpha Two access can chat in Alpha Two channels by connecting your Discord and Intrepid accounts here.
Intrepid should hire a Manfred or set up a bug bounty program
leamese
Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
So who or what is Manfred? https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/7/ (fascinating 2 podcast episodes)
Its the name off a hacker and mmorpg player. He played the game, knows it inside out, then he starts to hack it and find what is possible. Getting lots of gold, experience, talent points, destroying ppl's houses.. Then went to ebay and sold items, gold etc. He reported the vulnerabilities to the devs but he just gets banned.
The fact is every mmorpg has flaws in the code he could exploit. So you need Someone like him who tests your environment. Or set up a bounty program and reward players with cash if they find real exploits.
Many will have seen the South Park episode World of War craft. There was this fat guy killing everyone, that was basicly Manfred. Then he gets banned. I think AoC should have a weapon called Sword of a thousand truths for nostalgia sake and an honor to SP.. For one of the best episodes. (make it strong and legendary).
Thanks for reading 😉
Edit: setting up a bug bounty program https://www.aon.com/cyber-solutions/thinking/set-up-bug-bounty-program-ten-steps/
Its the name off a hacker and mmorpg player. He played the game, knows it inside out, then he starts to hack it and find what is possible. Getting lots of gold, experience, talent points, destroying ppl's houses.. Then went to ebay and sold items, gold etc. He reported the vulnerabilities to the devs but he just gets banned.
The fact is every mmorpg has flaws in the code he could exploit. So you need Someone like him who tests your environment. Or set up a bounty program and reward players with cash if they find real exploits.
Many will have seen the South Park episode World of War craft. There was this fat guy killing everyone, that was basicly Manfred. Then he gets banned. I think AoC should have a weapon called Sword of a thousand truths for nostalgia sake and an honor to SP.. For one of the best episodes. (make it strong and legendary).
Thanks for reading 😉
Edit: setting up a bug bounty program https://www.aon.com/cyber-solutions/thinking/set-up-bug-bounty-program-ten-steps/
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The problem is that a lot of studios take it personally when the players discover exploits of weaknesses, even if the players found the exploit by accident. Yesterday I posted on here about a recent incident where a Fallout76 player got banned for reporting an exploit, which just goes to show how insecure some developers are. I hope Intrepid will be smarter than that and actually work with the players rather than against them, but time will tell on that.
He recently made videos about the outer worlds with an infinite item bug, or unlimited stats in elder scrolls oblivion.
My opinion is that many game studios dont really test many games that rigurously anymore, and just let players in their betas do the work. Another fact is that QA testers get the least amount of resources or recognition in the gaming industry.
I personally think it is one of the best ways to deal with potential hacks. Set up a section of the forum where you can only see threads you have started yourself, and ask people to post exploits they have found there.
If someone (or several someones) report an exploit that is new to the development team, reward them with subscription time on their account.
This provides a carrot to contrast with the stick of banning accounts that make use of exploits and such.
Rewards can differ from embers, subscription time to cold hard cash for exploits that give unlimited gold or something (which is gevestigd in a competitive world.
I would love to see a bounty program. I will ask that for the next live stream QnA.
I must say I will be kinda disappointed if there will be no bounty program.
It's personal opinion/feeling. I am a system/security engineer and I find it really important. Not because other companies don't do it, Ashes shouldn't do it too. If everyone follows that philosophy we would get nowhere.
I'm not saying it isn't something you should want.
I want it too. I think it would be great if Ashes had it.
However, I'm not going to be disappointed if Ashes doesn't have it because I have no reason to be. If the only examples of companies that have it that we can find are Microsoft, Google and Apple - three of the biggest companies on the planet - you really can't be disappointed if a startup doesn't have it.
It's just not logical - personal opinion/feelings or not.