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Someone suggested a .mr command, similar to the .wr command but for mail, would that suffice for combatting the gold mail spam epidemic?

You can only provide people with tools to protect their accounts, there's no way to force them to use 2FA effectively. They are actively working on A core. Neither of us know what core it may be, but as evidenced by the bugtracker and the plethora of issues that players report and are ultimately fixed, work is getting done. Additionally - what does it matter if it is the Nost core? I fail to see what the issue is. The player base wants the most stable core possible - Nost's core seems to have been the most stable and advanced as evidenced by their large population: What is the problem with using this core? Nost wanted the Vanilla scene to continue to flourish. They picked Elysium to transfer it to and then met with blizzard, proceeded to do a complete 180 on their stance for private servers (going out of their way in their exit speech to label them "Pirate servers") and suddenly they do not want the vanilla scene to flourish any longer. Yeah, you can report the same gold seller 6 days in a row. There are a great number of bots that continue to spam and a limited number of staff. Staff that must check each individual report for fear of the outrage that would happen if they were to just ban based on the single screenshot submissions by the community. This all takes time. So the community needs to decide, do you want accuracy in these bans? Or do you want rampant banning based on 1 fledgling of evidence that CAN in fact be doctored. You can't have your cake and eat it too. I've not heard about Thunder-furies being sold by staff to several players, I'd gladly look at your source for that but I find it very unlikely they would do this as a matter of policy. I respect your opinion mate, I'm just trying to be pragmatic about this whole situation with the hatred against Elysium. It's unfounded, especially when they provide a service that offers endless hours of entertainment at no cost to us, but great cost to them. Worst of all, this hatred is disastrous for the entire private server gaming community. Why should anyone bother going to these lengths in order to provide this free service if they'll just be bashed to death about every little thing?

The sheer population of Elysium makes it a prime target for gold sellers and hackers alike. It's the same situation as Windows, Macs and viruses created. The majority of the corporate environment uses Windows so more viruses are tailored for windows since there is profit to be made. Hackers will target Elysium because there is profit to be made due to the very large population. Can additional safeguards be implemented by the Elysium team to prevent these account hacks from occurring? Probably. But lets not forget that they are one of the first, if not the first private server to implement 2 factor authentication (2FA) in order to actively combat the hacking situation. They already provided you the single best tool to completely prevent this from happening, 2FA, use it. Gold spam here is wide-spread, I agree, but the team is ACTIVELY combating it, this you cannot deny. Unfortunately on this server there i a market for the gold - Players are buying it. This continues to fuel the gold farming and gold selling market.This also encourages hacking because its easily acquired gold and gives a great deal of value to old databases from past successful private servers. Valuable information is in there that lets them brute force their way into current accounts. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if there is a group out there scraping information of geared characters off http://realmplayers.com/ and cross-referencing character names versus account names to do targeted attacks on geared players. There are various other methods they could be using to single out positive matches that they may have credentials for, including cross-referencing character names with old private server database emails. I've been a part of the private server scene for quite some time too and know firsthand what happens when other servers have it out for you. Elysium has made a number of enemies due to jealousy in the private server scene and hatred by those that stand to profit off hacking accounts. They don't need a player base so ungrateful as to neglect all the hard work put into this project as well. Try to remove your tinfoil hat and enjoy the wonderful server they provide or just leave. Don't try to ruin it for everyone else.

Mate, whats with all this bitterness? Some of these posts seem like you guys are personally injured by obstacles the server and its staff face. Clearly they delayed releasing AQ late specifically to piss off the player base? Everyone seems to have this notion that they're lying to you just to lie to you. No one considers the other alternative - that they just can't know for certain due to all the obstacles that come into play. Specifically the AQ Release. I can't tell you how many times my team and I have personally given expected date times for sprints and not been able to reach them due to factors that none of us could have foreseen. This happens EVERYWHERE, especially when dealing with an ambitious project and multiple individuals contributing to the project. Can ya'll just settle down and get off their backs? Christ.

I'm pretty sure he means vendored.

Kreptor, when you want to open World of Warcraft to login, do you use the launcher?

Thanks man I greatly appreciate it!

Great video! I really like your addons, would you mind sharing what those were? In Particular your UI, the timers on how long is left for the debuff (such as hamstring: <target>). Thanks, nice weapon btw! Regards,

Thank you everyone for the replies thus far. We have had 41 people respond and given me new leads to check out some new WoW clients. Thus far however the hash signature on WoW.exe from Elysium, Kronos and Retro appear to all be the same. Will now be conducting some packet sniffing to see if any extra data is being sent though. Should anyone have an original WoW client from a CD install and patch upgrade please let me know as I would desperately like to do a Hash check on that. Thanks!

Hi everyone, The survey below is intended for any users that have been hacked on Elysium. If you have ever been hacked please fill out the following form as honestly as possible! I am very interested in where you acquired your WoW client in particular. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc1-74iN0pEW1j9nXQT8p99e36fLYtR1WOm0K8p3JlwYzLEeA/viewform#responses What do I intend to do with this data? To be honest, what I am mainly interested in is where you acquired your WoW client. I intend on comparing every possible WoW.exe hash to see if any differ from each other. I also intend on packet sniffing the client on the login screen after clicking submit. I want to see if data is being sent anywhere other than the login server when I try to connect on any suspected tainted client. Once the data reaches a reasonable sample size I'll comb through the results and release any information.

For anyone else that may have these questions in the future please note that Warriors when training new skills actually have their old skills replaced - in contrast to spell casters that have older spells retained.

Thank you for posting this Forest. I find it remarkable that even with what you've posted, there are users that immediately tip towards the cynical end of the scale. It's like, if you absolutely hate playing here and hate the staff so much that you would come up with something so arbitrary as an argument to this thread as "They just put random numbers in there", why do you even play here? Anyway, Thanks!

Hi weezing, Sorry I was inquiring for my own survey purposes. It would be really useful for my data if you could answer the questions, but please do not feel obligated. Thanks! Regards,

Hey Weezing, I'm curious, can you answer the following questions: 1. Have you used the same password or username on any other private server before? Which one(s)? 2. Was it a simple password or did it Adhere to strong password principles? (At-least: one capital letter, one numeric, one special character? 8+ characters in length?) 3. Did you download any add-ons from this forum or from another site? 4. Where did you get the 1.12.1 Game client --> Did you download it from the website or some other source? If another source where did you obtain it from? Thank you! Regards,

Hi, thank you for your replies. Last question: Did you download your 1.12.1 Client from the Elysium website or from another source? If another source - what source might that be? Thank you! Regards,