First, the good news!
The Voting Center has been updated!We've removed the faulty 30-hour voting link and replaced it with two
new 12-hour voting sites:
TopG and
Top Servers 200. That is why it may look like you've lost voting bonuses, but you actually haven't! Extremely sorry that we didn't realize this would be cause for so much alarm! We also adjusted one of the 12-hour voting sites to reflect its correct 24-hour cooldown. Overall, this change means roughly .24 ad credits possible per day without voting bonuses.
Now for the not-so-good news...
Concerning character names under 4 characters in length:Until somewhat recently, our current client allowed players to use an exploit to bypass the default 4 character minimum. This was an oversight in the client and wasn't supposed to be possible, as should have been clear from the method used to bypass the character limit check. Although the exploit has been fixed, leaving the resulting character names is neither fair to those who used ad credit towards their 3-character names nor those who were unaware that this was possible.
You will still have the option to keep your 3-character names, but you will need to spend 5 ads per name like everyone else.
We were originally going to change these names first and then request that all affected players submit support tickets, but after further consideration, we decided that doing it this way would be less startling. However, any characters that have not been addressed through a support ticket by
Monday, October 27, 2014 will have their names changed regardless. (In most cases, this means we will add symbols or numbers until the character name becomes valid. Inappropriate names will be changed entirely.)
| |  | If you've created a character through character creation with a name under 4 characters in length and would like to either keep its name or choose your own replacement, please submit a General Questions support ticket with the following information:
- Subject: "Character Name Length"
- Affected game account name and password
- Affected character on the account
- Would you like to spend 5 ad credits to keep the affected character's current name?
1- and 2-character names will not qualify for this option. - If not, please simply provide a new name for the character. This change will be free, as if you had created the character normally in the first place.
Addition: Please find 2–3 names per character in case the first one is taken by the time we get to it.
Also, characters under level 40 may not qualify for name changes if support ticket volume is too high.
(It's rather easy to make a replacement character with the new name you want.)
Include any additional affected characters and account information in the same support ticket.
New character names must be available, appropriate, and valid through normal character creation.
Characters created before the switch to eAthena and those whose names were changed through spend credit requests will be unaffected. | |
As this exploit did not result in the gain of zeny, items, or ad credits and is fairly minor, we will not issue any bans, but please remember that this server runs on donations. Luxuries like 3-character names and other services show our thanks for supporting the ad credit system that helps keep this server alive. We understand that names can be very personal and meaningful, but we'd really appreciate in return if everyone could understand that even "harmless" exploits like this can still impact the server's well-being. Please, please report them in the future.
