We've delayed the response to this as we've spent 3-4 days gathering and reviewing all the logs to provide the fairest and most accurate response without the pressure of demands. We haven't been posting punsihments due to the amount of trolls that unecessarily take things too far and for too long based on paper thin understanding of all the facts and spread disinformation that hasn't been validated, which is then believed as fact; however, this has been blown up out of proportion enough that it requires some transparency in rectifying the situation. We will continue trying to be more transparent as long as we can trust players to remain civil and conduct themselves as adults without making matters worse for us and delaying punshiments. Keep in mind the new players joining the server don't need to be a part of the unvalidated madness and discouraged.

Issue: There existed a bug in which landing Armor Break + Dice Dagger within the 8 second window on a target without immune would result in a 100% death. This was tested on the Test Server with over 20k health. This was a bug with how the damage was calculated, in a small subset of circumstances (mostly 1v1 - no immune - Armor Break landed - Dice proc'd within the small 6-8 second window - and the target didnt move). Due to the rarirty of it, it's easy to see how it went unnoticed for so long. It's likely that the first couple instances may of not been noticed. This wasn't something thats been used frequently, it's a recent discovery.

We've analyzed logs from Live Server, and Test server since the beginning to find evidence of testing, pre-existing knowledge, ect. From the evidence, it does suggest that the last couple of kills were highly likely to of been intentional. It is also evident that one of the victims that died to the attack became aware, tested the bug and started making a Dark Elf in the hopes of taking advantage of the bug. The facts are based on the following:

1. Chat logs which suggest intent and knowledge.
2. The explained sequence of events not matching what we analyzed in the logs.
3. The sudden increase pattern of dice daggers (twice as many used in the last week compared to entire history on the server).
4. Video evidence of no weapon switching.
5. The fact that the player SHOULD have known simply based on the fact that the targets were dying instantly when the Dice Dagger exploded, before anyone could even think of switching weapons after the death. This key fact, casts doubt on the situation as no mechanic exists that allows a dice dagger to complete a kill. The evidence suggests there were 4 days in which we feel the player was aware; a few kills did occur prior to this in the 2 week window that were likely innocent.

This is not a case where a player has taken advantage of an exploit in a way to intentionally harm the server for their gain, this is a situation where they likely discovered a bug with AB & Dice Daggers and didn't immediately report it. The player is not a hacker, and has not broken rules here before.

The players are guilty of Rule #2: "While we feel very confident in the security of this server, there are always people who feel that cheating a game is the best way to win. If you are to find an exploit, we do require this to be reported to the staff immediately."

Punishment: The offender has been banned until Sept 1st, and kills for month have been deleted. The player that discovered the bug after being killed, and was chose NOT to report it has also been banned until Sept 1st.

We'd like to get back to finishing this event, and getting Tikal and the updates moved to Live. We ask people to take it easy on global, lay off the alts to spam and evade excludes. We encourage everyone to post on forums for feedback and analysis. Global will be turned back on, and monitored. We'd prefer to not issue chat bans, and be forced to police chat. What have much better things to do; something happened and its time to move on, its been fixed.  Take some time to digest this before lashing out. We ask that all bugs be reported immediately. We will fix them as soon as we can, sometimes this takes longer than we’d like, but we will find a way. Don’t waste our time as we don’t want to waste yours. Help us grow the server so that we can all keep moving forward.