Clone Wars, The Exploit... A sense of normalcy

[Hargath]

Going by the snippet of data you posted, it very much looks like the duping started in late July 2018. I am curious on how the dupes metastasized on Basilisk. If you have the numbers available that is. Around which date did you find the earliest dupes? When was the bulk of the duping done. How many items and components with 'exceptional' 'legendary' lable were used as blueprint?

[lordkator]

Going by the snippet of data you posted, it very much looks like the duping started in late July 2018. I am curious on how the dupes metastasized on Basilisk. If you have the numbers available that is. Around which date did you find the earliest dupes? When was the bulk of the duping done. How many items and components with 'exceptional' 'legendary' lable were used as blueprint?

There appeared to be several "rounds", I can't go into a lot of details but something "happened" in Dec 2019 where it exploded, people involved just got greedy as can be (and lazy) and that opened up the ability for me to really deeply monitor them. From there I was able to see the patterns and go backward as much as possible to identify even old dupes.

The "latest" round was based on some weakness in the code, I patched it on Basilisk in June and watched them squirm and create safe houses, trade things to "friends", delete items, it was quite educational. That round left a lot of "evidence" which I was able to use to find the duped items.

Saldy the older dupe events were not logged as well so all I could do was look at high value items, I did audit all Legendary and Exceptionals, and surprise, found some interesting patterns, which, well.. lead to other bans and people complaining we were blindly banning them and they magically never bothered to come back to support to dicusss (gee I wonder why). As an example if you have to Legendary looted items with same s/n on the same character, do you think that's strange? Or did you think you were just super lucky?

I can't tell you the details, but maybe this is an interesting peek behind the curtain:

+----------------------------------+----------+
| test                             | count(*) |
+----------------------------------+----------+
| test12,test13,test7              |    29133 |
| test7,test13                     |     8271 |
| test13,test7                     |     7452 |
| test14,test12,test13,test7       |     4185 |
| test6,test7,test2                |     2660 |
| test2,test7                      |     2448 |
| test12,test13,test7,test2        |     2070 |
| test12,test6,test7,test2         |     2032 |
| test14,test12,test6,test7        |     1769 |
| test14,test13,test7              |      690 |
| test6,test7                      |      425 |
| test1,test7,test6                |      413 |
| test12,test6,test7               |      298 |
| test4,test7,test13               |      263 |
| test14,test2,test7               |      254 |
| test7,test1                      |      213 |
| test14,test12,test6,test7,test2  |      192 |
| test14,test6,test7,test2         |      173 |
| test13,test7,test2               |      151 |
| test14,test12,test13,test7,test2 |      138 |
| test11,test2,test7               |      138 |
| test14,test7,test13              |       69 |
| test2,test7,test6                |       66 |
| test4,test7,test1                |       66 |
| test7,test6                      |       61 |
| test7,test2                      |       60 |
| test14,test6,test7               |       36 |
| test14,test7,test6               |       12 |
| test14,test11,test2,test7        |       11 |
| test9,test13,test7               |       10 |
| test13,test7,test14              |       10 |
| test14,test13,test7,test2        |        7 |
| test12,test13,test7,test14       |        5 |
| test4,test7,test6                |        5 |
| test8,test7                      |        5 |
| test4,test13,test7               |        5 |
| test2,test7,test14               |        4 |
| test14,test4,test7,test13        |        3 |
| test13,test7,test2,test14        |        2 |
| test3,test7                      |        2 |
| test7,test13,test14              |        2 |
| test14,test4,test13,test7        |        1 |
| test1,test7                      |        1 |
| test4,test13,test7,test14        |        1 |
+----------------------------------+----------+

There were 8 phases, 14 distinct "reason codes" and the audit went across 500 Million objects.

[Fissile]

I can't tell you the details

*won't.

long live the reich.