I have to agree with Thermal on this.

There was no exploit of a bug merely some top players finding a place to level easily.

This has happened before an those people got off scot-free so why the double standard?

What really pisses me off was Hermes was blocked off for the rest of us.

A typical example of a knee-jerk reaction which punished a large chunk of the player-base for a actions of a few.

Was it really necessary?

Dammit i missed my chance to lvl to 3k!!!

As the dev who lead the investigation, I'm going to set a few things straight here before things get out of hand.

Leveling is supposed to get progressively harder past the point where you can max everything except zen skills. Anything past that point is just a small bonus and for bragging rights.

The people who abused these ai the most gained over a thousand levels each, in less than a week. When you're already around level 3k, I think anyone will agree that it was far too fast. Levels were reverted due to the fact that literally a third of the top players list was filled with people who had abused these ai to get there It was deemed that it was unfair to current top players who had invested hundreds of hours to get there and to players that played fair and didn't abuse a broken mechanic.

I'd also like to point out that no one was hurt by their level being rolled back. Only players above a certain level were reverted and only if they had clearly been involved in the abuse of these ai. All of them will be able to do all the same content as before.

As to the mentions of past leveling exploits (Lion boss in particular) thats in the past, if they had happened today we would have reverted them.

As the dev who lead the investigation, I'm going to set a few things straight here before things get out of hand.

Leveling is supposed to get progressively harder past the point where you can max everything except zen skills. Anything past that point is just a small bonus and for bragging rights.

Fine, since this game is PvAI focused there is no reason to level once you hit 2000 then? That leaves you with base building and uber runs only as the main things keeping this game running. No reason to do regular AI content at all I guess.

The people who abused these ai the most gained over a thousand levels each, in less than a week. When you're already around level 3k, I think anyone will agree that it was far too fast. Levels were reverted due to the fact that literally a third of the top players list was filled with people who had abused these ai to get there It was deemed that it was unfair to current top players who had invested hundreds of hours to get there and to players that played fair and didn't abuse a broken mechanic.

So DIE, Bizman and TimeOfDeath abusing Lion levels was never unfair? I'd like an apology at least from the administration of Star Sonata for treating people this way.

I'd also like to point out that no one was hurt by their level being rolled back. Only players above a certain level were reverted and only if they had clearly been involved in the abuse of these ai. All of them will be able to do all the same content as before.

No-one was hurt by the reverting, would mean that no-one would be hurt by keeping it the way it was. That is a simple logic which you fail to see. If no-one is hurt by having their level rolled back, then no-one would be hurt by not having it rolled back. And I don't see why players above a certain level were reverted. Is it fine that a player leveled from 1000 to 2000 in here, when a player leveling from 3000 to 3500 should get reverted? Seriously?

As to the mentions of past leveling exploits (Lion boss in particular) thats in the past, if they had happened today we would have reverted them.

This is a major mistake, where I would like to hear a big apology from the administration, and I would like to have some kind of compensation for this terrible management of this game.