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We are a hive mind :-)... We made a determination definitively this morning that rollback is necessary.. So i took the initiative to let the community know as soon as possible to avoid waiting until a Sr. Admin+ could post it. dey be gone, buuuut if you keep track of them, we can add it back so everytime you get off cop check how many hours you have.

If the money is legit.. then no... if the money is hacked, yes.

My official response is Olympus does not advocate its members buying / selling in game cash for IRL money and doing so, advertising or inquiring about it could result in administrative action. If you suspect someone of having hacked cash, you can always put in a player report with the details. I hate you

recording not needed... i mean like try and recall as many details as you can. We will work together through logs to try and get your money back.

going to edit OP with this, but 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: - Warpoints - Runs money (also robbing/seizing runs) - Cop arrests - Medic Revives - Vigi arrests (both arrest # and money) - etc.

sooner then 2 weeks, want to rollback as little as possible.

yes but wait until rollback, try to loosely keep track so its easier to confirm!

I mean i know your memeing to get a reaction out of the mongs... but to correct you here, you pay to have devs add that item to the dev queue, not to get it straight away.

#FREETHEBOYS In light of allowing the cash to be used until rollback, all that I have banned for hacked cash are FREEEEEEEEEEEEE..(ish - reduced to 3 days) But there is a catch, if this happens again... i will not be so kind. If you were a massive prick to an admin when they banned you, then you may not get similar treatment.

we expect you to use your brain... and technically bohima allowed it to happen and we need to develop our own anti-cheat to stop it. Probably, since its a lot of work pushing an update they group it all not just someone, Grandma Gary did sooo...

keep track and when rollback happens put in comp.

Probably will not count (last time i remember this being the case), so sAPD and sRnR should either work on tracking times daily until rollback or give a hall pass @ikiled @TheCmdrRex @Fusah can confirm though

Rollback date can best described as soon - community OG's know this as 12 units Rollback means FULL rollback... everything in the database will be reset

We're playing catch-up on many of the donation goals because we've been dealing with BS like this which unfortunately takes dev time to fix. The next update which is 99% ready will not include bank, BUT knocks out many of the outstanding donation goals including some other goodies. This update will be one of the biggest content updates we've had in a long while!!!

If you many of the members of the community didn't try and snake the money and hide it, we wouldn't need this. If those folks were honest, issue could be fixed in just a few hours.. not take days, weeks to track the money. So yes, some none hacking community members forced our hand... we know we have things to fix on our end, but wouldn't have to come to this if money in some cases didn't exchange 10+ peoples hands before finally stopping. Submit a comp and we will work on figuring out what you lost together once the rollback happens. Not going to rollback until we fix the problem.. until then... enjoy

sure, easiest thing to do is keep track of your total revives. then when roll back happens its simple math (Total revives pre-rollback - Total revives post-rollback) x 17500 = your money to be comped

Yeah that was before I starting diving in logs and seeing 1k 999999 withdraws

honestly, doing this makes it harder for staff. Just put in a comp or ping us when you see us online and we will remove it for you.

No problem, we want to be as open book as possible, but didn't want to announce it until a decision was made.

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...