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| kilvear
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New Customer
|  "Re(3):iRO"
, posted Sun 22 Jun 08:46:
lucky the users here still know about it. Anyways hacking is still going on. Some of the more known guild got owned. They have their guild members expelled characters stripped and eq dropped all over the place. One of the guild is Nightmare Over Eternity or Riffy the smiths guild.
I personally lost 50% of experience and one Skeleton soldier card. I hope you guys haven't lost anything too bad. Remember to change your password with gravity's new login.
p.s.hi henry heard you were playing as well.
I am here I'm there I'm everywhere then again I am just in front of the computer.
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| DarkZero
116th Post
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| "Re(1):urfh" , posted Wed 25 Jun 21:31
This whole situation makes me wish that I had yelled a little bit louder about Gravity's past behavior. I mean, they were CHARGING for a BETA. They were asking people to pay actual money for a private beta that didn't even have everything that they had to offer when most companies operate their private betas through a random drawing of everyone that has signed up, and they usually do it when the game is in an actual beta stage, not the alpha stage that the pay-to-play iRO was in. And they had been hacked before this, to the point where their server software was leaked and the only thing stopping iRO from being the first (accidentally) open source MMORPG was the amount of processor power that it demanded for menial in-game tasks.
For their pathetic security measures, indifferent attitude toward customers that tried to help them beta test their game, greedy business practices, treatment of their international customers, and now their lack of willingness to inform people of what has happened to their accounts, I hope that this is the last that we ever hear of Gravity. They created a fun little visual MUD with very basic gameplay but a lot of cutesy fun, and it really was a fun game, but the rest of their business strategies have been atrocious.
Pak0 is closing, Ragnamart is already closed, people are leaving the game in droves, sites like Mac Hall that used to push the game are now apologizing profusely... it was a fun game, but these are actually good things. A company like this should not be allowed to have the credit card numbers of more paying customers.
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| DarkZero
117th Post
Regular Customer
| "Re(3):urfh" , posted Thu 26 Jun 00:15
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Actually, according to my findings in private servers, it doesn't really take much in terms of hardware to run a server. The bottleneck most of the time is the bandwidth, when it can eat 100gb total output in a week with (just?) 400 players.
Lowest end server I've heard of was a report of a stable working server using only a Pentium-based 500mhz processor with 128mb ram even... Though bandwidth-wise it was running on LAN.
Well, that's a new to me, because when we had this discussion before, Prof and someone else explained that it had a massive processor and RAM load, presumably because it was built to run on a rack server. I've never tried private servers though, so I guess I'll take your word for it. Have you found any good ones?
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Conclusion:
Juneh will run a private server!
I've been away for a couple of weeks and was sort a n00b before that, so I did not understand a word of that.
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| Zepy 508th Post
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| "Re(5):urfh" , posted Thu 26 Jun 09:08
The findings from my side sounds a little different!
Thing was that every major webmaster received a copy of the user db in text format. And if the hacker really is Mark' as some people referred to the hacker as, he's the kind of kid who'd do this sort of thing just to gain recognition without thinking of the consequences. However, this unfortunately also included the Apez webmasters... who promptly thought that putting it on bittorrent and letting the forum users have it must be the best thing to do.
People who know whomever the hacker is also received the actual ODBC files. If he didn't want the list to spread, he sure didn't do much about it.
I'm not sure if ro-world's closing had anything to do with the hacking though, but wata was a little too open in showing off that he received the user.txt. Too bad it finally has to close though, wata put a lot of hard work into it as the first big RO fansite during the alpha testing. Of course, now its no longer updated because he no longer really cares about the game, and their community is shit too. I wonder if his private server dies with it.
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That's right, RO-world.com is no more.
Sorry, everyone. I just can't keep this thing going anymore. There's no excitement in it and it's of no benefit to me to be running it anymore.
I hate the game and I hate the community. Most importantly, I hate you.
I don't have the time to put up with this shit anymore. The other admins don't really seem to be giving a damn about this place anymore, so I'm closing the door.
Shortly following the closing of this site will be my departure from the Internet as a whole. I've got a person to love, my employment, and lots of other things to look forward to. Coming here every day is fucking depressing as hell.
That's all I have to say.
Fuck you all.
- watashiwa
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| kyo717
97th Post
Occasional Customer
| "Re(6):urfh" , posted Thu 26 Jun 11:48
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Well, it looks like you guys were right. The F.B.I. arrived at my door, pinned me down, searched and wiped my home computer, threw me in jail for a night, then searched and wiped the ro-world.com server computer at the datacenter.
I got the box back and was released from the jailhouse, but we have to rebuild all the sites that were on the box, which includes ro-world.com
Some of the staff has been released and the only remaining staff are DarkFact, Cross (who's been promoted to Administrator), Julius Caine, Ryu, and Falkon.
We are opening up staff applications, so if you want to moderate the forums, help with the database, design the page, or whatever, just send e-mail to staff@ro-world.com stating so. Please list the position your applying for, any previous experience with that sort of position, or any experience working on websites or forums in general.
Requirements to be a staff member are as follows:
- Must be laid back.
- Must work well with the other staffers.
- Must have some Ragnarok Online gameplay experience and be able to answer questions about the game. (It is not required that you are still playing the game, but it is definitely a plus.)
- Don't have your head up Gravity's ass.
- Have some sort of intelligence.
- Must visit the website on a regular basis and participate.
- More to come when we think of it...
- watashiwa
© 2003 ro-world.com
.. psst, burn in Hell.
from www.ro-world.com
o_O;; Ro-world is back? is he being sarcastic or joking in that opening line? <_<;; hmm probably. >_>
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