[BUG] How to duplicate characters...
Posted: Mon 26.12.2005, 10:06
1) Start a character with a character name that is longer than 8 characters (for example, a high elf mage named LongCharName); you will be connected as LongCharName, the high elf mage.
2) Start a second character with a name that starts with the same 8 characters (for example, a human warrior named LongCharNam); you will be connected as LongCharName, the high elf mage too!!!
So now you have 2 characters totally identical on the server...
Here comes the lamest way to exploit this...
- sell everything that both chars have
- take one char and buy a bow and arrows
- kill the other char
- pick up the cash
- now you have doubled your starting cash
- reconnect the second character (LongCharNam)
- check that the 2 chars are identical (sometimes the bug doesn't occur and a 'real' char is created)
- kill the second char again
- you now have 4x your starting cash
- repeat over and over... you only need 11x to get 1 million cash, 22x to get 1 billion and so on...
2) Start a second character with a name that starts with the same 8 characters (for example, a human warrior named LongCharNam); you will be connected as LongCharName, the high elf mage too!!!
So now you have 2 characters totally identical on the server...
Here comes the lamest way to exploit this...
- sell everything that both chars have
- take one char and buy a bow and arrows
- kill the other char
- pick up the cash
- now you have doubled your starting cash
- reconnect the second character (LongCharNam)
- check that the 2 chars are identical (sometimes the bug doesn't occur and a 'real' char is created)
- kill the second char again
- you now have 4x your starting cash
- repeat over and over... you only need 11x to get 1 million cash, 22x to get 1 billion and so on...