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That's what I was doing on Utopia.

Guess I will have to think again.

Guys, this thread is about "Era Needs a New Job!", not "Let's ignore the forums rules and 'bash' other people!". More outbursts like that will only see this thread closed.

Resets are often caused by glitches/management changes. I feel that if we, the current administration, could stabilize the post-reset economy, and actually hold the server without a huge staff change, things could easily work out. Me and Demisis have already talked over some things we'd like to do.

Obviously. The key is to design a system where there is no chance of a duping glitch; this is actually pretty easy.

Not really. People script and design to imagine they've made the perfect system with no duplicating glitches, but you never really know. Most professional games go through extensive bug testing and still players end up finding bugs, even years later to mess around with. I doubt any server on Graal even has bug testing. Even so, you never really know what can really happen once it's introduced to a playerbase.

That's true, but a lot of times the way you design the system (e.g. a mud system with IDs versus some kind of system using normal weapons) can make all the difference.

We need to make all the staff changes before the reset if what Icarus says is true. If all is changed there will be no management change in the future for a while depending on if he does his work well or he's lazy.

Duping can be fixed if we just allowed the Manager and Server Admin to do it. No one else, so we know if someone is duping because two people have it.

Ya, any system managing multiple items without IDing the items is behind in times. It's possible, and there are already tons of MUD systems posted in the code gallery that take advantage of it. It will easily manage duplicated items, but you can never really be too sure. In the end, it still takes intelligent judgment on the staffs part as well, on how to handle the situation. Era really hasn't proven themselves in that area so far...

considering the manager and the 2 administrators aren't too advanced with GS2 I highly doubt any of them would of been able to figure out + fix the duping glitch.

I think he was saying something along the lines of if two people have some kind of special weapon?

I don't think he was saying it would be the manager/admin fixing it.

New players should start off with a handgun with 2k ammo that will help

And a skateboard.