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Staff will need to discuss that, i doubt we will comp the whole community 200 WP but we will think of something fair!

Hi all, First, I would like to thank each and every community member that has stuck with us through these dark times. Hackers unfortunately ruin the fun for each and every one of us. Ruins it for staff and especially ruins it for you, the community. You have to remember, our goal is to keep the player base as happy and fair as possible, which leads us to make some difficult decisions. So on to the point of this post. Hacked Cash We are well aware the cash that was 'hacked in' has transferred so many hands at the point that tracking it would be a process that could take weeks. So Staff has decided we are going to have to roll back the servers to 4/26/2019 00:00 (or a time around then). This decision was a difficult one to make, but its for the betterment of the community. Unfortunately, some of the community members are to blame for this need by trying to 'beat the system' and launder the cash. If everyone followed the SOP (Standard Operating Procedures) below we wouldn't have to do this, we could easily remove the cash and move on. Before you pick up your torches and pickaxes and march down the streets of Kavala, there is a silver lining. In instances like these, all logs are preserved, so if you did 10 mil in runs over the last few days or got 40 Warpoints from fighting cartels, etc., you can submit a comp request to get this stuff back. Provide as much detail of the day and estimated time as you can and we will correlate with logs! This may take some time as we will get RAPED with comp requests, so be patient and we won't forget about you . FALSE COMP REQUESTS BEWARE, WE WILL COMP BAN YOU IF YOU TRY. (this means you won't be able to ask for comp for anything because you wasted our time by lying) Moving forward, @destruct made a great post on what to do if you get hacked cash here: The TL;DR of the post is, don't spend more money then you actually have and submit a comp request to get the money removed. (don't go out and buy 4 jets, 20 ifrits and 10 HEMMT's when you have 2 mil of earned cash, you will catch a ban because you know what you are doing is wrong. If you are given cash and want to know if its hacked, submit a general inquiry. What is Olympus doing? We have a few options on how to do this stuff. The dev team is working hard to write anti-cheats to stop these hacks and better detect it when it happens in the future. We are close to a solution and the rollback will happen when a solution is implemented (no point in rolling back if the hackers will just do it again). We also have other architecture based solutions that will take longer to implement that we are looking into which should help stop cheats / hacks which would ordinarily slip past the anti-cheat from working. We will update on this when there are more details to update. The ear rape hack is a Arma thing and Bohimia should have fixed it in this update (i have not checked patch notes yet) So hopefully our ears can be safe! How can the community help? The best and most effective thing is to play honest (not abuse hacked items) and stay patient. We haven't shut the servers down because we plan on a roll back, so it doesn't matter what you do, it'll all be gone. But, just because we are rolling back, doesn't mean you are allowed to abuse the stuff the hackers gave you. Remember that. Another thing is to report any suspicious activity. Make a post in game or go to the TS support room and someone from support can Ping a staff member to assist. The fast we know, the faster we can remove the hacked cash and ban the account doing the exploit! TL;DR (for you lazy folks) Rollback will happen and will rollback to about 04/26/2019 00:00:00 EST Submit comp requests for money/items/WP you from then to now LEGITIMATELY. (winning a 50 mil bet against someone with hacked cash will not be comped) Do not put in False Comps or you will be Comp Banned Follow @destruct post on what to do if you get hacked cash. (generally don't spend more money then you legit have and submit comp request to get hacked amount removed) Olympus is working on fixes for the issues and will have one soon, so stay tuned Report suspicious activity and don't abuse hacked cash (this is what causes us to have to roll back) STAFF <3 Community I am leaving replies open for now so any questions you may have can be answered by staff (within reason) EDIT: Only money generated by the server will be comped... If you robbed someone for 50mil, prob not legit and won't be comped, also all bets from rollback to now will not be comped since you cant be sure where the money came from that was bet (sorry).. (just bet it all away again ) These things can be comped (including but not limited to): - Warpoints - Runs money (also robbing/seizing runs) - Cop arrests - Medic Revives - Vigi arrests (both arrest # and money) - etc.

With my extensive experience in cybersecurity I can tell you that IP banning doesn't work because they are using VPNs which arnt detected and they are purchasing hacked accounts for pennies on the dollar which we ban as we come across them.. really can't stop them from ban evading without stopping new players from joining... I would honestly love to hear your solution, because from a network topology standpoint of you can't identify the traffic as VPN, idk how you stop it. (Btw VPN and regular traffic all look the same to the server) The ear rape exploit is am Arma thing that we legit cant fix and bohimia is patching, the hacked cash thing is because Battleeye is the world's worse and easily evadable anti cheat, we can and are doing things to try and mitigate these things but it takes time to discover how the hack works and how to write an anti cheat to stop it.. I get it, you are frustrated, so am I... But you should be focusing your distaste with the folks that are taking enjoyment by making your lives hell which is the hackers .. us as staff are trying our best to provide y'all with a home to game... Unfortunately there's always one asshole that ruins everything and these guys are it...

So basically if you code 3 and I point an RPG at you then your guns hot? Because for RPG I don't need to txt engage I can shoot once you code 3

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Do you happen to have unit/squad image?

I guess I'll be the actual person to respond... First thing you want to do is do an easy such as peaches or apples until you can afford a boxtruck.. thenyou probably want to join a starter gang... There are plenty that will internally accept anyone... Then do some weed/copper or other safe run until you have some decent cash... Then once you get the hang of things you can decide how you want to play the server (whether it be cop, medics, cartels, vigi, rebels or a mixture of all... Depending on that will be the next gang you join.. Hope this helps!

why not give them stings (also makes deputies worth robbing again....)

what about a slower firing rate SMG such as protector or PDW @Pledge Will give them a buff in having an automatic rifle, but not quite the CQC OP of the sting, just a thought.

And comp lol

High Level means just bulleted brief points

I can agree communication is key, a bi-weekly dev post with bulleted progress and high high high level notes would be nice.. as long as the community can be fair to the devs when they post about a delay.

I think everyone is misunderstanding what donation goals are for... The donation goals isn't, "donate so we get it right away" its donate and the dev team will then start developing once goal is met... If March goal is considerably harder to implement then April's goal, April's goal may finish before March's goal... Of course server performance, bug fixes and anti cheat takes precedence over goals.. If the goals were already finished then why donate? Devs aren't going to sit on their hard worked on code for long if goals arnt met... Just saying

10k hours = leave launcher open when not playing 99% of the time

I'll take all 800 for 10m

How much per wp?

Now is 180 mil worth the rdm ban? Well if I'm your middle ban you don't have to worry about that risk

Funny the name is Asylum, buuuuut...I'll just leave there here: I like smoke bb Buttttt i would actually watch the Viper / Xeltini match :-)

NJ did just legalize assisted suicide too... i wonder if this counts if Ryan consents?

@Ryan does only live 40 minutes away from me