Stevens Response to Dupers - Exploiters characters reset - Legendaries removed - nodes treasury reset

From Steven via the Discord -

Good evening,

As many testers are aware, last weekend we introduced a bug into the game that allowed for several dupes to exist. As I have said in the past, our velocity to deploy fixes is a direct correlation to the possibility of introducing new bugs into the live version of Alpha Two. We are working hard and fast, to address the most pressing issues we identify with the help of our glorious testers each weekend. Unfortunately, some testers took advantage of this situation, attempting to exploit these bugs in an effort to dupe materials, gain gold, generate node treasury funds, and craft legendary equipment. Some testers did the right thing and reported the issues to us, but the damage was already done to our test environment.

As a result of these bad actors, we have since wiped all duped materials, removed all legendary item IDs that were created with duped materials, reset treasury amounts for the offending nodes, initiated emergency elections in nodes where buildings were created with ill gotten treasury and supplies, and I have deleted over 100 characters that were found to have participated in the exploitative activity numerous times. If you purchased or received items from these exploits you will find those missing. If you gained gold via the exploits, your gold was reduced to 0.

The testers who participated in this activity, must understand that doing this harms the game. A game which YOU obviously care about. I have warned in the past, and it exists in our EULA and ToS that cheating, RMT and exploiting will be dealt with harshly. Everyone should be happy to know, that as a company, we care for the integrity of our players achievements. And as such it is necessary for us to stay vigilant in the tools we create that help us monitor and address these issues.

Let this serve as a warning. And take it from someone who themselves has been banned from games. Ashes will be different. So don’t partake. Instead report it. And play safe my friends.

Thank you