Important Update on the rollback

Dear users,

As we've mentioned in both Discord announcements and in the 'Dear Community' topic we were still finalising everything with the staff. Here's an update on everything.

~Vote Cash~

We've heard you and after discussing we came to following conclusion:

• Everyone that voted between March 5~7 will have 15k Vote Cash refunded. This is an automatic process and is now applied.
• Users that lost their account but voted as well could be refunded, but this will need to be done manually.

If you are a user that got their account deleted due to rollback, we can manually insert the lost cash. We however will verify that you truly voted, so please do not lie.

Please provide your Login ID and your Character ID(s) and create a Character Issue topic by clicking here

~The 3x EXP, 2x Meso/Drop, 4x Quest EXP compensate~ [Ended]

In the 'Dear Community' topic we've mentioned that we will hold a 3x event together with 2x drop/meso and 4x quest exp due to lost play time. Once again we are sorry that this happened and we hope it will not happen again.

We want to let you know that the bonus will be extended from its original length (Friday to Sunday) to Friday 11:00 PM server time ~ Tuesday 11:00 PM server time.

This way people that are only available during weekdays will also be compensated, as well as the fact the rollback happened during the weekday. The Valentine's Event will end Wednesday.

~Conclusion~

This is the final notice regarding this topic. Once again thank you for playing MapleLegends and continuing to support us.

- MapleLegends Administration & Staff -

*There are times where we communicate through Discord. We have an official discord which you can join by clicking here. Especially during downtimes, we are most responsive there.

 

One final post I am going make some have been asking me about it

Who is the person that exploited?

I am personally not sure, but I am very sure its not a user from here, but someone testing the security. We had people like those in past, but those were usually on good side and would report it to us. This person exploited and tried damage the server, by buying a lot of merchant items illegally. I will not disclose the name because attention is something you should not give to bad users. Just move on.

What's the exploit?

I do not really want disclose it because I feel people will try it out on other servers, which is something I really do not support. However, it was done by exploiting a feature from a specific NPC by doing incorrect server requests. The exploit has been globally patched now.

 

It was extended due to rollback xNivx

 

This is our first rollback since 2 years, so yeah there's few things we've learnt here and there and first time on things can never go perfectly. But to be honest we should not get 'experienced' with handling rollbacks, since rollbacks is something that should never happen to begin with.

However, there's few flaws in your logic. Example, quest items could be lost, but the person would still have completed the quest, thus permanent lose of exclusive quest items.

Now you may say 'ok, revert the quest data too' but then people may got extra EXP from the quests they can do again! So yeah, there's up and downs and flaws to everything, so for now we decided to rollback everything rather just parts, so we don't have to make multiple downtimes because we forgot about something.