If you start playing Bootleggers again after being away for a few years, you could look at the total money in game and think “hmm, exploiting may be a thing of the past, together with duping”. Where there were exploits all over the game only few years ago, you can hardly see one happening nowadays. This tells us that the game has been stabilized and most errors have been removed from coding, making exploiting and bug abuse a thing of the past. Or hasn’t it?
It became clear to all of us that since the past couple of days/weeks there has been exploit abuse by some players, but how could this have happened? How can it be that in a game where money exploits seemed to be a thing of the past, suddenly a money exploit re-appears and seems to be able to boost the total money in game quit a lot. It was the topic we all had been waiting for, BSF2000’s topic stating that there had in fact been a money exploit resulting in the total game money to rise substantially higher than ever before in this round. BSF2000 stated that the Elite Guard had detected an exploit in slots which allowed for illegitimate money to be created. Until the bug fix it had been possible for the past week to exploit money by winning on slots. The amount won on the casino wasn’t equal with the amount the holder lost as a result of this. The problem being that the owner lost less money than the gambler won, therefor creating money out of no-where. BSF2000 also stated in the topic that the Elite Guard had decided a rollback will not be happening and that they are trying to track down every player involved. The rollback wasn’t the way to go because they felt it would be more harmful than helpful, also it would punish those who played fairly during this time.
After this topic had been created by BSF2000 it didn’t take long to really get an answer how this happened. It was Sky who came forward with the following message: “BSF2000's far too polite to point the finger of blame but in this instance fingers should be pointed. The exploit arose as a direct result of me trying to fix a bug that doesn't exist. I remember there being an issue where the slots paid out less than they were supposed to and instead ended up making it so that they paid out the right amount but took less than it should from the owners, which essentially generated a huge amount of money out of nowhere. I am, therefore, an idiot. And a coward, apparently. Rather than explaining what was going on to you guys immediately I dithered and waited for BSF2000 to tell me what to do. Instead I should've taken some initiative, and told you guys what I'd done wrong. More importantly than that I should've tested the page properly after making the change, rather than letting some opportunist players exploit the issue. It was fixed a couple of days after it was discovered, in part by BSF2000 and in part by me, the rest of this time has been monitoring the game cash to see if there was any other vulnerabilities that needed addressing. I realise I'm owed none but I hope you'll extend me forgiveness for this error, I certainly acknowledge that I'm a tool and I've learnt from this to be more careful with what I'm doing. First exploit in years? Not a proud moment for me. Thank you to BSF2000 for being polite enough to not blame me but blame is deserved (though certainly not for him).”
So it became clear that the person responsible for this was Sky himself. And although we can all agree on that he should be severely punished for his actions, I believe we can let this one slide for now, being the first mayor money exploit and what not.
