Aurora Level 99 Exploit: Report, Warning + a Request…

darn baron now it is going to take me forever to get to 99 on all my accounts roflmao . thanks for the heads up and i will keep my eyes open and let you know if i see any . but we all know that alot of the games in home people have been exploiting and get crazy stats and fast times. it is good to hear ndreams is going to look into it though rather than ignore it all together.

 

Good work baron.
Usually these exploits don't bother me, but as I have worked hard to get my level up, I kind of feel cheated. Hopefully they can identify all of the culprits and bump them all the way back to 1.

 

They should bump all the 99'ers back to level 1. Rewards should be taken away as well, but not sure if that's possible. Same thing happened with hacked Midway jackets but don't think MM did much; I wish more companies were proactive like this. How about a "regret-o-rama cone" where they have to complete 12 tasks to start earning XP again? :smile1:

UPDATE: Found this comment on the PS Home forums:

nDreams Ltd

Please be aware than anyone currently displaying level 99 in Aurora is just pretending to be level 99 using a cheat/exploit that we have become aware of. We'll be updating Aurora in the near future to stop this from happening. We're disappointed that people feel the need to do this, but rest assured that they will return to their actual level in the near future. Of course, we can't comment on rumours that we're considering building a jail under one of the islands for them...

 

LOL @ a jail. ;D Honestly, I never quite understood why someone would cheat/hack like this? To me it's like buying a $60 game and using a cheat code that shows you completed it at 100% when you never even played it. I always thought the point was "playing the game". uke: Just glad that the vast majority on this site agree with Kane. (moi)

 

sadly, the hk and jp Disgaea space has a checker to see if your hell points are consistent to what they expect it to be at. if it looks like you are cheating, your points are reduced to ZERO.

I say Sadly,because it can make a mistake if you own two ps3s and use the wrong machine.

 

yea the reaper shock i have given up on even trying to get the trash man item shoot i wouldn't have the pants if they wouldn't started resetting the daily board lol.

 

Hi Baron_Brain, sorry to bump such an old post, but I just today found this. As you can probably guess I was in fact one of these people, or as you call us 'idiot's, who were there that day. Before you get too excited, nothing happened to any of us.. not even an e-mail warning. Now the exploit was patched very soon after this so you can give yourself a few strokes knowing you are probably responsible in part for that. Just FYI, that exploit to lvl99 was only temporary. It lasted long enough to get all rewards, but that your level was 99 was never stored in the servers. Basically it was just a way to cheat all rewards early.

I'm not sure I fully understand why some people get so miffed over a very small minority of users who choose to engage in these types of activities. We aren't harming anyone, and I guess it could be argued that we are hurting ourselves only. At this point I would like to put forth some food for thought. I'm sure to people who would never use such an exploit, you likely see it as very unfair or an injustice that I can get these rewards without seemingly having to put in any effort. That's where you would be wrong. Finding these exploits and then devising a way to make them work takes a lot of time and effort. Maybe just as much as the person who runs around get their orbs legit everyday. The point I'm trying to make here is that both sides put in a large amount of effort. It's two very different routes, but in the end it's all to the same destination.. getting those rewards.

So in the end, I see no reason for the name-calling and insults. You have to remember this a game, and still in Beta at that. People like me love the rewards just like everyone else, but we've chosen a different challenge for ourselves as to how to obtain them. Both ways are still just as satisfactory in the end.

 

Unfortunately glitching a freemium game for its rewards will cause more maintenance down time so you can see why people get upset over it, I understand also if someone at developers dont get it right, people will exploit it as well, but id choose less down time over getting rewards by cheating, I also think risking a ban to get virtual rewards is a bit much, lose the ability to use your account and all you gain is virtual rewards, then when people see you with these rewards all they think especially if its impossible to be at that level is you cheated so theres no kudos to it, so I cant see no plus points to cheating rewards from a freemium game

 

Also you have to understand many people get annoyed at the slow level up and buy the upgrades, therefore the Developers make money and can offer more games and fun things.

 

Given that you cheated to get the rewards, I would say you aren't qualified to compare the two investments.

Recently, when I was level 86, I think, I calculated how many more days it would take me to hit max level. The number was between 80 and 90 days, something like that. That's with the aid of the purple goggles, xp-doubling jacket, apartment with island defense, and all island defense upgrades, all of which cost money.

The way I see it, you've helped yourself to the equivalent of an entire chest worth of medals for the price of finding out how to break into the company that mints them for the military. How long did the recon and planning for that take, anyway? Me, I've metaphorically gone to battle for months on end to qualify for these medals. Months, with each day representing maybe 30 minutes of my precious free time. That's real time, not pretend time. I've also invested quite a few dollars in the venture.

In the end, what you accomplish is to make the medals not only more commonplace and thus less of a real accomplishment for the rest of us, but you also bring into question whether or not the rest of us actually put in the monumental time and effort required to earn them legitimately. For all anyone else knows, we cheated too. Gee, thanks for that.

So, no, your self-righteous defense of your actions holds no water. You are a cheater, a thief, and a vandal of others' reputations. No more. No lame rationalizations, equivocations, recriminations, or misplaced pride can or will ever change that.

 

im the first one to get annoyed with developers money grabbing, many times ive given an opinion on that topic, slow level up I dont have a problem with as too many spaces go dead all too quickly once everything is won, home is fast becoming an over complicated facebook game anyway where rewards and the need for random friends to help complete stuff is taking over. People are actually thinking its kudos to have a top end reward, I rate people by they friends not by how many rewards or accounts they have

 

Glitchers, hackers, cheaters, whatever you call yourselves will never win, because it exploits all activity and sooner or later it'll break the security system within Sony.

How do you supposed Home was shut off completely back in May 2011 without warning to anyone? Because Anonymous, just like your group, still depends on using hacking as a way to get even with Sony, and they somehow found a way to turn the tables against their security systems and breached all of our accounts. And, you'll be doing the exact same thing you'll be doing when you didn't realize you didn't. We don't want Sony to be pulling the plug off of their systems and shut down productivity because of this. They already made a huge apology once, so why do it again and make people more upset?

I honestly think you and your group should consider your actions and stop using whatever you're doing before it's too late.

 

Are you serious? So that hack took months of effort?

I'm not perfect by any stretch, but cheating is cheating whether it's in Home, in competition or in your personal life. I just feel sorry for anyone who feels it's necessary to anonymously try to rationalize their personal character defects on open forums.

 

Some of us dont have the time to play the game every day of the week to get levels please for love of god get off high horse. Anyone who ever when to privative sever or had got to a space earlier like with the tgi space is "cheating" Anyone who using other region is technically breaking the ToS you cant only read parts you like. Complaining about other people having rewards it doesn't matter how they got them. We all collecting rewards If you had a chance to get 100,000 points per drink in neon downtown dont tell me wouldn't do it or 30,000 points for Japan Monster Fishing

 

As just explained above Yoshi, glitching/cheating/hacking, or whatever you want to call it just causes more problems than getting them the legit way. I'd rather be able to play a functioning game and show off what I've earned over going through hacks and exploits which causes issues with the game itself and other system functions due to them.

As Aiken has stated, you're giving everyone a bad name by hacking items people have gotten through legit means (not to mention spent money for). Now it's become a stigma with certain items that have a negative connotation because of people like you. I don't care if you try to justify your actions by giving me some sob story of effort and time and whatever else, it is not the same to those who not only do it for the items, but they do it for the challenge and for the right to show them off (merit) without just hacking it and obtaining said items.

I personally think it's a lazy and cowardly way of getting things. You can't put forth the time and effort yourself to do it legitly so you resort to hacking and cheating to do it for you. Maybe it's a fear of failure? Who knows. Here's an idea, use that time and those resources to actually earn things yourself instead of ruining it for everyone else who does make the effort.