@ Margzz Clearly, you are not understanding what you did is wrong. When other players have to pay lots of real money to obtain the amount of gold that you exploiters got for free....that is a problem. Get over it? Regardless of what the TOU says, I see this as stealing and cheating. Keep downplaying it. And also, don't assume that everyone in KAW would immediately cheat, an that stealing is a "natural human" thing. It isn't. Perhaps in your culture, not mine.
The bank manager would get reprimanded, probably demoted or fired. The employee would be jailed for theft. In KaW sense, KaW developers are now reprimanded by the players. Their credibility may go down, and their business may suffer. But... the exploiters are the ones that get the heavier punishments. Harsh truth
Willy first of all be quiet I clearly have accepted full responsibility for my actions AND appologized for them so your comment about my understanding is null and void and your not very bright. And 1stx that defeats the purpose of WHY the devs didn't ban us which they had every right to do. Returning us to this state ensures that 155 players (except those that have quit) will now need to spend more real $$ on this game this continuing to line the pockets of ATA. It's all a money scam. I personally won't give them any more ill rebuild slowly without spending my hard earned money for fake gold that you all are so butthurt about. You say we are the cry babies, your doing more crying about the fact we stole some gold then we are about the fact we lost everything because of that gold we stole.
Why did some lose everything? You said you were only going to take away what was gained through the exploit. but some that already had gold, pots and buildings before they got exploited gold ended up losing everything. Is that part of a punishment? What did you need to do in order to completely lose the lot? Or is it because they ended up dropping their build, to convert, and so you're treating it as if they've dropped their build?
I'll post this again... Look at it from an ATA standpoint. They're doing this like the IRS, which is fair IMO. If you owe $20K and only have $10K cash, the IRS takes the rest in items that equal the difference. Same thing here, if player A creates 5T and the Devs don't see it, then it's only right to assume they used it elsewhere. Take baseball for example, guy has 500 home runs, gets caught using steroids, after 250. He doesn't go down to 250 on the record, he is labeled a cheater and ALL his accomplishments are tarnished. You guys got caught, so what happened, all accomplishments tarnished, in terms of items/land/building anyway.
The reason they took everything and this is what I figure is because when you pots when u go to sell em u only get a portion back same as buildings and bars. Thus when they took back the gold they went into builds that we're already there to make up for what woulda been lost of the money by refunding. U spend 15bill on a building ur gonna get 5 back so they have to take back that 10 from somewhere.... Still not fair but that's what I figure. The logical explanation
It's completely fair, in order to take the inflated gold out of the game, you must be punished. Why do people keep thinking there are checkpoints in this game. That you go back to something if total disaster hits. You got caught abusing something not within the normal mechanics of the game. Live with your decision.
So did tower builds ... But wat happened to them? 1) they kept all mith and equip they earned 2) got refunds for the towers they had because essentially kaw made them worthless for the exploit The "punishments" they dole out seem to be far more substantial in only this case ... Ask ur self why?
This exploit has been around since February as people have stated ... Kaw knew about it atleast for a few weeks (if u believe it wAsnt put there on purpose) yet most of the players getting banged were the ones from just the last week or so ... Wat happened to the players that been using it since it was discovered?
If they stripped all the liquid assets and buildings created only by the exploit (ie. pots bars inferno allies... ) And let the market repair it self would have taken just a month or two to sort out .. Now with the way the devs Handled their owe screw up it will take months and months for the system to self regulate just food for thought
Since February? Seriously? Common devs we all know its not like you to leave a glitch for so long so why did this one go unnoticed for 4 months????? I for one want to know.
Not saying its right to exploit and cheat especially when it harms other players gameplay but I think the outcome of all the bans and resets may affect kaw more then the exploit itself did
@E Yea, they got outright banned. I know of a few friends who got banned when 6M spy was the max because of botting.
Wrong, I know players that did not get their accounts back. At least 6/7, I'm sure some did, but I bet a lot more didn't.
And those people manipulated the program ... Some get back That's not an exploit tho .. Other exploits are let go I see u avoid the question of the towers builds
I guess you get what you get. Don't do things because its easy because it won't get you anywhere in the end. Maybe you all will learn from this, but from the looks of it a lot of you guys are ok with people "exploiting" the system aka cheating. You messed up, if the devs didn't make it hurt then you would just do it all over again when you found another loophole. To the people who knew and didn't exploit congrats, at least some of us have virtual integrity for whatever that's worth!