Divine Intervention: Helfors/Never Neverland, Roasted

[jorb]

As we were looking into lowering the palisade soaks for this week's patch, we came to look at the top server stats, and found some real outliers in the stat race. Looking further at them, it turned out that the players involved had been getting massive FEP gains from single food items. Further investigation eventually revealed that the cause of these insane FEP values was the ability to somehow apply Food buffs (Laurel leaf, Cave Lantern, Domestic Honey, perhaps others), repeatedly, to roasting spits. The roasting spits effectively had buffs in the 700k+ range, putting FEP values of roasted foods in the thousands. We still do not know how this was done, but have installed safety measures to remove egregious buffs on load. If anyone knows how this happened, we are interested.

Analysis

• We believe the longtime consequences of this to be fairly limited. The abuse seems localized entirely to denizens of the den of iniquity known as Helfors, and we believe we can scrub the server clean of buffs, and terminate offending characters.
• Stats acheived through this were around 1.1k.
• The crazy has been going on for about a month.
• Offending parties have not been particularly interested in explaining what has happened, nor displayed much recognition of culpability.

Consequences

• All characters who have eaten forbidden fruit have been terminated.
• The villages of "Helfors" and "Surprise", along with the entire Realms of "Never Neverland" and "MOTHERLAND", are deemed forfeit.
• We will bust the gates of "Helfors" and "Surprise" open, nuke them selectively, and remove the coronation stones of "Never Neverland" and "MOTHERLAND".

Meditations

• Erratic behaviors that put you way ahead in the rat race should be reported immediately. Exploitation of such abuses will be a net negative. A short PM asking if something unexpected is intended is cheap nuke insurance.
• I hate doing this.

Enjoy.

[julian12it]

Your grandma is cute

[loleznub]

[wonder-ass]

HAHAHAHAHHAHA

[Artemiswhb]

LMFAO

[infectedking3]

big OOF

[Ozzy123]

Don't forget to also nuke all of their cairns tho, coronation stone is not enough. Bless the devs tho

[Vigilance]

Kudos.

[Omnipotent]

1.1k stats in a month, wowzers. Well done Jorb & Loftar.

[CSPAN]

Rest in peace our buffs. Christ...