At 07:55 PM 4/1/96 EST, you wrote: > >> I talked to him but he says he just knows circle really well and knows what >> to kill and where to advance quickly. I think he is hacking my system some >> how but can not figure it out. Take a look at this: >> >> syslog.6:Fri Mar 29 20:00:30 :: Azalin un-renting and entering game. >> syslog.6:Fri Mar 29 20:31:10 :: Azalin has re-logged in ... disconnecting >> old socket. >> syslog.6:Fri Mar 29 20:41:00 :: Azalin advanced to level 7 >> syslog.6:Fri Mar 29 20:41:00 :: Azalin advanced to level 8 >> syslog.6:Fri Mar 29 22:02:00 :: Azalin has re-logged in ... disconnecting >> old socket. >> >> Notice how he advance 2 times in the same second... Something is going on. >> Please let me in on this. By the way this is the 2.2 code right "out of the >> box". > >Advancing twice in the same second is not unusual - it just means that >he got enough exp from a single kill to advance him from level 6 straight >to level 8. If you get that much exp at once, Circle logs each level >separately. Create a test character at level one, group with him, and >kill a very high-level mob... your test char will probably go from level >1 to 4, and you'll see the same message in your logs. > >There definitely *are* crazy people out there who do nothing but mud all >day and know the stock CircleMUD areas so well that they can easily level >to immortality within 36 hours. So his explanation is not unreasonable. > >2.20 does have one notable bug that lets you cheat, namely that you can >make infinite money by junking coins if you don't have coins. That was >fixed ages ago in 3.0 (and the FAQ has a fix for people running 2.20). > >> Also I snooped him for a while and found nothing unusaul besides the >> re-logging in. > >With 2.20 I think there are some bugs that let you duplicate equipment >under certain circumstances if you log in over yourself, so snoop him next >time he does it and see if he has more eq than when he started. > >-je Yes, I can see what your saying but I did notice that he was logging in multiple times on top of the same username. My thinking was that he may have found a way to have multiple session in the system of the same player. When I snooped him, he was playing like normal but when he rented he had to rent twice. This is why I came to this conclusion. Let me know what you think. Yours, Christopher M. Lee chrisl@earthlink.net
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