Rich Fireskull
Notorious Pirate
Nuff said
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How come I never get a Captain Redhorn Seal of Approval in any of my posts? D:Great! I admit I might be subject to a little of this and I hope we all (including myself!) can follow your lead in eliminating the spread of hacking.View attachment 45818
I also want to encourage people to read over their screenshots before entering them into albums because chat discussion of hackings to an extent will be removed and a friendly reminder sent.
Hopefully this new change will not make the forums too strict and I can assure you all that the staff is doing our best to keep things safe, free, and fun.
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How come I never get a James O'Martin Seal of Approval in any of my posts? D:
Okay, this just isn't fair.
Nuff said
It's getting increasingly frustrating to look over the forums these days. The forums were started to bring the community together, but it feels as if so many people now only want to tear the community apart.
If it wasn't blatantly obvious before, the forums are against hacking, and they will be moderated as such. There are lots of ways to enjoy life, I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would choose one which ruins everybody else's experience.
If I could, I would like to pause for a moment to explain to everyone that "something unexpected" has occurred which is important for our community to understand now (concerning those ex-POTCO players whom did happen to hack/mod on POTCO). For what it is worth, perhaps this finding surprised you - @Davy Darkrage - as much as it had for me since the both of us have talked numerous times concerning this issue and topic of discussion.You are still welcome to discuss the hacking problems, so long as you do not participate in hacking or engage in a drama-inducing back and forth conversation with someone who does.
Since POTCO's closure, a few players (whom were heavily involved within the inner-most circle of ex-POTCO hackers/modders) have randomly came forward to "apologize" publicly to the ex-POTCO community for their past conduct/misdeeds - via this forums.
Such apologies should absolutely be applauded and recognized by everyone here!
Aye, I'll just take this time then to make a "small" public "informal" apology. You may all be wondering what I could possibly have to apologize for, after all you didn't participate in this did you? Unfortunately you would be wrong...Such apologies should absolutely be applauded and recognized by everyone here!
As much as you feel that you were solely responsible my friend, in my own eyes there was one individual whom had played POTCO loyally to the point of "revolutionizing" the hacking/modding problem where it most definitely got out of control.I'm not proud of it. I know that I was a HUGE part of the hacking problem. I started it. I hyped it up. I told one person about that simple hex editor. I regret so much.....
Shamus The Brute, you wouldn't happen to have been a SvS player, were you? Did you ever run into a hacker on the french island, after he ported with 12k bounty? What provider did he host the website on?As much as you feel that you were solely responsible my friend, in my own eyes there was one individual whom had played POTCO loyally to the point of "revolutionizing" the hacking/modding problem where it most definitely got out of control.
*To be clear, this individual has not yet to make any sort of PUBLIC apology (directly or indirectly) for his actions via the "main" pirate identity that he had used . (In hindsight, this is a particular sad thing because with the way this individual was so heavily involved with POTCO during it's prime, my guess is that he is still actively involved with at least one of the 'post-POTCO' projects being developed now by ex-POTCO players, though I have no proof of that).
The reason I personally got involved/inspired to understand the POTCO hacking/modding issue was significantly due to this individual. (This, despite the addition of the individual whom was notorious for the 'stealing' of other players' POTCO accounts in addition to another individual whom blatantly defiled the ex-POTCO community by compromising accounts and then publicly 'deleting' all items within their inventory via use of embedded links loaded with a key logger virus [whom had also uploaded fake POTCO 'Anonymous' videos on youtube]). The main reason why this particular individual which I am posting about now had failed in my eyes is because of three (3) words: purposeful mass distribution.
It's one thing to hack a game for fun because you stumble upon how to do so. This individual however had purposefully set his "mind and heart" on distributing the means for POTCO to become hacked, primarily because of two reasons:
I know this because I spoke directly to him about such deeds; deeds to which he had hinted to me that his misdeeds would end. They never did and because of that, I was forced to message various website administrators to where their website domain were being used by him for the sole purpose of providing public "downloads" for such exploits. The majority of them listened (as they valued their own Terms of Service) and in turn, he was forced to distribute his codes elsewhere eventually securing him a spot though on a domain which secretly harbors the pursuit/interests of those whom legitimately hack computer systems.
- His pride (he enjoyed the idea of himself becoming 'infamous' within the eyes of those whom relied upon his video tutorials)
- His own lack of understanding/maturity (he felt that through his video tutorials the 'codes released' would better a community whom grew bored of Disney and tired of their lack of attention towards POTCO)
So...the "cat and mouse" game I played with this individual proved to me eventually his full intent. *If ever there was anyone whom should apologize to the ex-POTCO community for the way that the game was hacked/modded across the board, it should be him.
In time, it is my hope that he makes the right decision.
SVS was my favorite thing to do on POTCO. With that said, SVS was "significantly" impacted by various exploits (namely the 'cannons no-reload' exploit and hack) the individual I am referring to above had mass distributed, all over the internet.Shamus The Brute, you wouldn't happen to have been a SvS player, were you? Did you ever run into a hacker on the french island, after he ported with 12k bounty? What provider did he host the website on?
Just curious if you knew any of the answers to this question.
SVS was my favorite thing to do on POTCO. With that said, SVS was "significantly" impacted by various exploits (namely the 'cannons no-reload' exploit and hack) the individual I am referring to above had mass distributed, all over the internet.
The circumstance you mention (where 12k bounty was ported) happened all of the time amongst certain SVS pirates whom took privateering "too much to heart" at the expense of others' fun/gaming experience. *Not surprisingly, I was never supportive of those kind of SVS players whom behaved that way.
Your last question, I do not understand who you are referring to. If you have time, you might want to shoot me a pm so that we can discuss this privately if ye so desire (rather than on this thread).
Aye. Welcome back to the forums, mate (i.e., potcoreports/Axel). How's everything on TTR these days?Any of this bring memories?
What I ask is if any of this is familiar-looking and what you're talking about?
I don't really want to PM and rather publicly put it out here. But the Axel you speak of is the successor person; the one who stole an Axel's main pirate and continued to spread the PvP anywhere zombie mode where they joined public ships to attack others. Also, his pirate was some other guy, never knew never cared. When your in abassa, you see the chat talk and make something out of it.Aye. Welcome back to the forums, mate (i.e., potcoreports/Axel). How's everything on TTR these days?
Considering the other stuff, please shoot me a pm here if ye want to talk. (That way, this particular thread is not cluttered up 'too much' with dialogue between the both of us if that were to occur).
By all accounts, I apologize if I had it inaccurately tagged you as being the individual behind Axel but therein also, lies the problem with POTCO/ToonTown in general (there remained 'too many' identities players could mask themselves behind to carry forth their deeds of destruction to each game).I don't really want to PM and rather publicly put it out here. But the Axel you speak of is the successor person; the one who stole an Axel's main pirate and continued to spread the PvP anywhere zombie mode where they joined public ships to attack others. Also, his pirate was some other guy, never knew never cared.
I respectfully "disagree" with you that Disney is solely to blame.Tbh, the real person to blame is Disney for using python as their compiler For an online game. they thought that hackers wouldnt exist during its fruition. Such a foolish mistake for them to copy and paste game files from toontown and change it to potco.
Disney's failure to do anything right lead to the downfall of all IPs. Because the problem on toontown was also serious, there was no hope that disney was going to keep the other IPs up, since they share the same base.
In other words, even if hacking wasn't on potco, it would still be closed by disney because toontown was having the problem at a serve level.
This is a final warning to all forums members.
It's getting increasingly frustrating to look over the forums these days. The forums were started to bring the community together, but it feels as if so many people now only want to tear the community apart.
If it wasn't blatantly obvious before, the forums are against hacking, and they will be moderated as such. There are lots of ways to enjoy life, I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would choose one which ruins everybody else's experience.
If you publicly admit to manipulating the game, you will receive a ban, period. I don't care if you think it's harmless. I don't care if you just think it's fun. I don't care if it's your opinion and you think you have every right to share it with the world.
Do I want the forums to be as open an uncensored as possible? Yes. I really, really, really do. I want members to have an open platform to exchange thoughts and ideas, but I will not allow discussion that contributes to the demise of the game. If you want to discuss your participation in hacking, find somewhere else to talk.
If you do not hack:
Great. However, please make running the forums a little easier and DO NOT respond to those who do. As of today, responding to hackers will get you in trouble for drama.
If someone openly discusses their participation in hacking, click the 'Report' button on their post and move on. The hacker has no way of knowing who reported them, you have nothing to lose, and we will take appropriate action.
I do not want to see any more back and forth discussion between hackers/non-hackers.
You are still welcome to discuss the hacking problems, so long as you do not participate in hacking or engage in a drama-inducing back and forth conversation with someone who does.
At this time the General Discussion forum is closed until further notice. If this message is ignored we will just disallow hacking discussion entirely. You may reply to this thread or start a conversation with me if you have any questions or concerns.