Denied Best Posts in Thread: Langston1209

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Member Name Langston1209

Additional In Game Names: none

When you were banned: 9:00PM-ish and 12:00AM-ish 7/16/15

Reason for ban: Glitch Exploit

Ban Length: Perm

Staff member who issued ban: DianaB72

Why we should consider your appeal: You shouldn't, atleast not at this point in time, this is more of to explain myself, to convey what may have been lost in translation between me and Diana, and Diana to the rest of staff.

Please give any other information you might think is useful for us to know: I have a talent for discovering these things, exploits, cheats, dupes, etc. Which is why i was able to find this one, which i discovered one day (about 3 days ago) when i was spamming buttons at the bank. Im not going to go into detail about it incase any variation of it still remains but all that needs to be said is that it allowed you to get free money for selling more gold than you had, or that it took from you.

About a day after discovering this i mentioned it to one of my close friends LzK, and up to that point in time neither of us had used the glitch more than a few times (less than 3 million in total i would approximate). I was in teamspeak the next day and overheard someone talk about the old gold exploit that someone did a few months ago, i assumed they were talking about the current one and asked LzK if he told anyone, upon doing so i was informed that the number of people who had found out about it was more like 4+ than just us two.

Thus began the 48 hour period that our group worked. We each amassed anywhere between 10million and 40 million, and most of us spent it on something: Ranks, items, Steam Money, Csgo skins, etc. dispersing i would approximate 20million or so into the economy. The rest was all "hidden" in BRK-A stocks, god apples, or Diamond Blocks. So less than half of what was duped in never actually made it into the economy- our goal here was never to destroy the economy, or atleast mine wasnt, we wanted to profit from it, maybe get a rank upgrade or something and then call it a day and not abuse anymore.

I cannot speak for the value of the damage or money spawned in by the people i was with, from rough guesstimates i would think that i spawned in the least in total (16 million meebles). And i put about 10-11 Million of that into the economy through purchasing goods from a few people.

There came a time when caleb was on an alt (darkdoofus i think was the name) trying to get steam money or csgo skins or something and got caught up with a staff member and was essentially forced to buy vip or look suspicious. Somehow from there we got the idea that we could tell on ourselves and not get caught.

We had caleb get on an alt that had joined meep about 8 days ago and obtained money by voting, then went to the bank and did the exploit to earn about 60k. He then msged Klutch to inform cooleys or reggles that there was a glitch with the bank. He was asked to repeat it and he did, he was even given an exclusive item for reporting such an important bug, but was later banned when staff investigated everything. We all assumed that the level of investigative tools the staff had were still as lacking as they were years ago, but with the updated prism, and how admins have access to console, nothing was safe, they can see every single action you do if they care to look hard enough.

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Once caught i went on teamspeak with Diana and those involved and told her everything, being as compliant and as helpful as possible so as to make gathering the evidence, and patching up the glitch easier. in addition to this i informed her of an additional 2 methods that i knew of to dupe- they are of a smaller scale than this exploit but duping is duping, its illegal. I do not believe that she quite understood how i explained it at the time so if you would like me to explain it to a staff member on teamspeak or skype please just ask, i am more than willing to comply.


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I am relatively well known in the community and am ex-staff, i have been around a long time, i assisted in the investigation, and as a sign of trust i gave over every method of duping i can think of that works on meep, I could have easily kept this a secret and just come back and duped more, or even attempted to grief the server, but i never had any intention of really harming the server, as you will see by the logs, i really didn't dupe much in my final day(1mill at most), i made my fortune and spent it on what i sought out to do, i was done but i am not sure what the motives of the others were.

I am not asking for unban at this time, rather to consider how helpful i have been after the fact- as Diana can vouch for me. I ask that you keep in mind how this could have gone and how i chose to have it come down. Confessing and giving away all duping methods rather than let this play out and ruin the economy or server further. I apologize for my actions, i never sought to cause real harm to the server though looking back 11mill is quite large amount to add into the economy. I'm sorry for the hassle this caused staff, and the devaluation of gold and meebles this caused on the players, as well as to RaveMaster and anyone else who was wrongly banned as a part of the investigation, i have tried my best to clear your names and convey you had no involvement with us.

TLDR:
> Found Exploit
> Told a friend
> That Friend told others
> We exploited
> We profited
> We essentially confessed(before the ban)
> We did confess(after the ban)

If you have any questions please ask away here, skype, teamspeak, or any other way you find to contact me