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Can I haz op?

 

Many players, even a staff member are using the in-game stock market to exploit millions of meebles.

Here's how:
The U.S. stock markets open at 9:30am EST. The in-game stock market is supposedly "live". This is not possible. I am going to college for Finance, and I use many stock market apps on my phone. All stock simulators that I have always have a 15 minute delay. So, after not playing on Meepcraft for a couple of weeks, suddenly at 9:30am EST tons of people are now using the stock market! Before, it would be empty.

Here is where the cheating and exploiting come into play. Players log in when the stock market opens, then open up their web browser and go to any stock website. They head and find the "Market Gainers". These are stocks that was risen the most since their previous close. Players have a 15 minute window to find out which stocks go up the most. So, the REAL stock market opens at 9:30, but the Meepcraft stock market opens at 9:45. They buy a stock before 9:45, then when 9:45 comes they sell it with 100% guarantee of profit.

I tested this theory out, it worked pretty well.

Yes, that's 35 billion meebles. I started out with about 3.5 million.
This is an extreme example, this stock just happened to go up a ton.


Even Meepcraft's staff members are joining in the fun. Paincake puts all of his 60mil into the market. I thought I took a screenshot from after he sold, but it was more than 62mil. An easy 2mil meebles gained in a few minutes? Seems fishy.


You may think that these players are simply using the stock market as normal, but I promise you this is not the case. These players are clearly and willingly violating the rules. A moderator should know better than this. He should be the one getting this shut down. I found this disgusting.

Also, Please remove that 35 billion from my account and leave me with my original amount of money.

This is not only a bug report, but also a player report.

If anything needs clarified or explained more, please reply below.

Thank you,
-M

--- Double Post Merged, Dec 21, 2015, Original Post Date: Dec 21, 2015 ---

Update:
It is 30 minutes after the Meepcraft stock market has opened. Not a soul in sight.



Update #2:
My balance has been set back to the original balance.
I owned 94% of the server's total money.
Some serious damage could be done to the economy if this got into the wrong hands.

 

You say you guys playtested for 3 weeks, but who was this done by? If I had to guess, it was only staff members. Staff members, as I've mentioned before, are not experts on gameplay or glitch exploitation; they're just really nice people who know server commands. I'm not hating on anyone, just acknowledging that being an expert in these areas are far from a requirement to be staff. The very first game we played, our team encountered two gamebreaking bugs within ten minutes of gameplay. The clearlag and getting tped out. You're telling me in three weeks of testing, this wasn't seen once? And we somehow see two examples of it almost immediately, in the same game?

This all goes back to the core problem regarding playtesting. Over and over, buggy messes are released to the public, then over the next few weeks, are very slowly patched. This is not how things should be. Obviously you can't expect them to be perfect, but this is inexcusable. The summer event in the state it was released in was unimaginably riddled with problems and bugs that broke the game so easily. And yet, a group of normal players can play for a week and find a number of these. Many of the players who are playing mob arena "seriously" are playing mainly to find bugs and exploits. And we found plenty. And there's less than 15 of us. Would it really have been that hard to invite some non-staff players into mob arena to test it? It's not like there would be any advantage, mob arena is already predictable and we've seen the plug in before. Having us playtest would not have been advantageous to us in the slightest. And I know many players who would have loved to do it, for no reward or recognition. Beta testing is honestly pretty fun, especially when you know it's helping the server out.

Many staff constantly complain they spend hours working and playtesting to put the events in a suitable position for release. So why not ask the players for assistance? As has been mentioned before, we are not a multi-million dollar gaming company. Asking for people to play your game and tell you whats wrong with it is perfectly acceptable and, in this case, necessary. You mention that some of these bugs could not occur in testing, but only give one reason. And if I'm understanding correctly, which I may not be, it was just a problem of not having enough play testers at once? Once again, easily solvable by introducing players to testing.

To end it off, please do not be angered about our criticisms, or view us as ungrateful. What you have to understand is that we play the server for fun, and when things like summer event, which are broken in a plethora of ways, are put out for us to play, we do not have fun. Finding broken bugs every single arena game, whether by stumbling upon them, looking for them, or dying to them, is not a fun experience. You guys put hours into creating the game, we put hours into playing it. Obviously it's harder to create, but it's also what many signed up for. Yes, it is volunteer work, yes it isn't easy, which is why relying on players is not a bad thing. We would love to help out, and we're not going to look at you guys any different. If anything, I will have more respect for you guys if you came to us in need of assistance. We aren't mindless players like many larger servers. We understand the server, and are easily approachable. Let's make summer great again.

 

Nothing about my statement was a threat, just sanity. If I bought a product from any other business in the world, and I did not get it, nor received helped after nearly 10 days. I'd return the product and buy from another business.

MeepCraft is a business, things like this is not productive to...business

I still recommend, as a customer, if you did not get the product you bought, you get to threaten, and demand to your hearts content.

The customer is always right.

 

Seems like you live in Oregan. I'm coming for ya.

 

Bug: Players being ''offline''

IGN: Muunkee / Brownie000

Date of Bug: 2/6/16, has been happeneing a few weeks

Summary of Bug: When I try to /msg or /tpa someone, it says they are offline randomly, in particular when they warp. It's annoying.

Evidence of Bug:

Additional information: Have no current evidence, but I'm tired of it happening. It's been happening to lots of people, I've seen it. Will upload if needed.

 

I love how half the people who are acting like their worried are only attempting to help because they think they will get something out of it. How pathetic.

 

Welcome to the server enjoy the VIP rank and MeepCraft

Thanks for reporting a possible glitch but it was a gift not a glitch.

 

IGN: Deinen0
Reporting Player: Towny Beta Nether
Infraction Committed: Griefing
Date of Infraction: 5/2/2014
Summary: Caught griefing my town spawn once, was let off the hook only to be mean and do it again.
Evidence:



Cooleysworld hawkeye the crime scene, finding no clues leading to any perpetrator, thus concluding the towny itself has some sick vendetta against towns. Destroyed portal and repaired damaged caused.



Suddenly strikes again ruthlessly without warning, has some sort of hax to get around towny permissions.

 

Look at this cool bug

 

How about you don't respond if you have don't have anything helpful to say?

OT: I'll look into this.

 

Voting is broken as you receive no rewards for voting. No one is going to waste their time voting if they don't get a reward.

You are missing out on a lot of free advertisements.

Fix pls

 

Thats not how it works, its basically from this point onward if you hold a staff rank you will get a trophy

 

You shouldnt still be on this server.

 

Sorry for reposting, I just don't quite understand a recent denial and would like to provide and recieve some clarification.

@reppard posted this thread: Never got my rank upgrades in which he explains that he never received any rank upgrades from voting. In this thread he stated:

However it was denied for this:

Which doesn't make sense. He isn't trying to get his upgrade he is trying to remove the false information provided on the vote page, which staff have verified as false. I feel like it was denied because staff think he's trying to get a rank, without realizing he just wants the vote page updated so players aren't being decieved. If I'm wrong, and staff want to keep the vote page outdated to increase votes then that's understandable. I just had to make sure that reppard was understood.