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10/2/2010 2:15:48 AM
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Credit Resets
Good evening,
We are in the process of applying credit resets to approximately 15,000 users who we have identified as the most egregious Challenge Reset abusers.
A one day credit earning ban has also been applied, mostly to ensure that recipients receive an in-game notification of the action taken.
As with any such measure, we have taken the time to carefully select our criteria to eliminate false positives.
A more comprehensive pass will be occuring in the coming week as our automated Banhammer mechanisms grow accurate enough to satisfy our high bar for burden of proof. If you are thinking about getting an easy 50k credits by using this exploit, I would strongly advise you to reconsider.
Thank you, and please direct any discussion of these resets to this thread.
[b]Edit 1[/b]: a point of clarification. No bans were handed out tonight for
a) Playing too much Gruntpocalypse (no such thing!)
b) Using the target locator too much (no such thing!)
Specifically, we targeted an exploit that allowed players to complete a Challenge 20+ times via itentional network manipulation (i.e., disconnects.)
Spot checks have revealed the telltale signature of this behavior on every denier so far, so don't be fooled by the protests of innocence. We aren't.
[b]Edit 2[/b]:
1) If you have lost your Legendary Helmet or any other downloadable offers, you can re-download them via your Download History. We're not sure this is affecting anyone (we haven't reproduced it internally), but just in case it is, give this a try.
2) We won't be resetting Commendations, as we do not feel that the exploit used affected them. It would not be fair to people who did use the exploit but who wish to retain the record of their playstyle, and we cannot differentiate between the two systematically. Sorry.
[Edited on 10.01.2010 9:02 PM PDT]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] jaythenerdkid [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Commander Waha [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] jaythenerdkid [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Commander Waha [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] X BC73 X Well if wer'e gonna give a background Jay I might as well too. I'm 26, with a bachelors in history, with a focus in european history, a minor in psych and I'm currently working 50 hours a week while taking care of my 6 year old parentless half brother and trying to get a bachelors in CJ(almost done), I've been with my girl for three years nov. 16th and we're engaged, haven't set a date yet due to me enlisting in the army at the end of November... Now that being said, stop replying to my posts u scrub. Emp erno, I never called myself mpg pro, but compared to u, I might as well be lunchbox LOL. I posted to make a point, not to be criticized by scrubs...again, anyone with half a brain and some skill, I know your out there because halo isn't like cod, it takes skill to play, please answer my previous question of how I ruined your INGAME experiance. Also, emp, I like all the boosted camaign commendations, ur so legit bro. Captain Grade 2 two weeks ago, before challenge resetting as well. No animocity was intended in my posts but I'm not gonna be called unlegit by scrubs I wipe the floor with because I boosted for armour...I boosted for something that never affected anyone gameplay and I accept the punishment...I just don't like the idea of scrubs calling me unlegit.[/quote] You have a worthless bachelors and you're joining the Welfare Corps. And you're calling other people scrubs? [/quote] But he totally owned my "fourth year medical student" with his "history degree"! I mean, he's probably going to go on and get an entry-level job in a field unrelated to his degree, while I'm going to graduate and become one of those worthless "doctor" people. ...Wait.[/quote] But he's joining the army which means we can't make fun of him for being worthless even though he is. A bumper sticker told me so. [/quote] My dad's ex-Army. (Pakistan, special ops/engineers, back in the 60s/70s when the Bangladesh split was going on. War movies can [i]never[/i] match up to some of the stories I've heard.) Perhaps amusingly, his final rank was Lt Col. I have plenty of respect for army folks. I just don't have any respect for army folks who are dumbasses. Thinking back on it, this may be due to the fact that I have no respect for dumbasses in general. The army thing has nothing to do with it. Turns out, an idiot's an idiot, no matter what the profession. Who'da thunk it?[/quote] I'm a veteran of the Iraq war, and I'm sick and tired of two things. A: "I'm in/going to be in/was in the army so you can no longer say anything bad about me or you're being unpatriotic" and B: "I joined the army and that makes me better than you" It's really not the manly man making experience war is hell -blam!- that everyone makes it out to be. It's just we keep sending softer and softer kids to fight, and they can't even handle getting fired from 7-11 or being dumped by the girl they dated in high school.
