Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30248084-20180618182945

Ok, I know the title might sound like bullshit to some, but this has certain meaning to it. I will cut to the chase. If you are a TL;DRer, Just read parts on what is important.

So anyways, whenever PlaceRebuilder has the time to update the game, he always has to keep a great pace towards exploiters or other means in general.

How Is This A Bad Thing?

When he opens Debug to the public for testing, it also gives access to exploiters to quickly bypass more of Place's updated security by sending in bots and making videos on the new changes - even spreading comments about him needing to fix his game, which is honestly shit since they just do such themselves and giving it to a big audience of hackers and exploiters.

Trust me, these people (and there are many, MANY of these people) would spend hours on debug - even if he closes it - to break his well maintained system just for exploiting reasons.

Why Should The Staff Members Be The ONLY Ones On There??

First of all, they are responsible figures to R2DA. And when I mean staff members, I mean all members (Developer, In-game/Chat/Head Moderators, Admins etc) that help work and maintain R2DA. So PlaceRebuilder does not even NEED to worry on having his system bypassed when he even begins updating the current game. And it's more simpler to initiate this too.

As unfair as it sounds, it's the only logical sense to keep the game in a head pace towards exploiters - Like I said, it takes a while to bypass the system to properly (and not ban the user itself) run the programs that allow exploiting. Besides, this would reduce the amount of stress on PlaceRebuilder (maybe?) to actually get to pressing matters in fixing things - since the Staff Team is here, after all, to help him with it. To the best of our ability, at least.

'''But We Have The Right To See And Test His Updates Too! There Must Be Another Solution!'''

While I agree that there are some solutions, not everyone would like what I might suggest to solve the issue temporarily. While there could be more suggestions - if others pitch in their ideas - the ideas I have figured are these written below:

(A) - Restrict Public Access and allow access to only Staff Members of R2D (Script).
 * Self explanatory since it is mentioned above.

(B) - PlaceRebuilder inserting an Automatic Ban System (Script).
 * How this works would be like this; Accounts that are created in 2016 - 2018 are automatically banned by default, no questions asked. While this would terminate the issue on bots, innocent players will be affected in this ratio. Results would vary greatly on who plays and who doesn't.

(C) - Servers lower than 5 players (Or When Debug Is Closed) Shutdown Automatically (Script?).
 * For Security Reasons, If The Server is lower on 5 players - or otherwise, Debug is closed - All servers will shutdown in under 1 minute exactly, with a risk of losing data.

(D) - VIP & Public Servers are disabled to be created by the Public (Script).
 * Just a reminder - this is for security reasons, not restricting everyone on everything. VIP Servers or Public servers will NOT be hosted by normal people (even to Staff Team). Instead, only SPECIFIC servers will be open for Moderators to constantly be checked that is created by PlaceRebuilder ONLY. With a mod in these specific servers, the risks would be too great to even attempt any code cracking for exploiters without getting banned.

The Conclusion

While these actions seem extreme, it's really the only solutions to delay exploiters substantially to not come out with newer and better programs JUST as the update is released - giving PlaceRebuilder at least some time to catch a break until the system needs to be updated again - probably a week and a half or so later.

Ok, I might not know everything on how fast they can cook something up to make an exploiting program, but I am most certain that they will take time. And in the state that Debug is in atm, to allow everyone in, gives them all the time they need to do this so simply and earn a profit from it.

To be honest, B, C & D should be one thing indefinitely. But hey, I will let you decide that.

But seriously, this needs to be considered if we are to make exploits on R2DA more difficult.

Well, that concludes the discussion then... What you guys think?

=( Lost Ratchet )= 