TOPIC: [IMPORTANT] SSRP Economy Rollback 22/12/2021

Markus wrote:
Every update is tested extensively in advance. We fixed countless bugs before releasing this update - but as with every other software out there it's possible for bugs to slip through and get released to the public. In this case it was a pretty bad bug, but we had contingency plans and checklists which lead to us identifying the root cause and taking the appropriate measures within 30 minutes of realizing something went wrong.

Great update!

My question toward the community team is; how has a user managed to exploit a TRILLION dollars into the economy through the missions system, if the missions system does not reward you with money in the first place? What flaw did they exploit? And how are you going to prevent this from happening again, with future updates?

Martin wrote:
Exploits will always be available & just takes the right kind of person to find them but the way the exploit was handled with was very bad imo. Ofc others that have been online these past few days all have tens of billions of dollars so im the only poor peasant complaining but i know for a fact there are ways to make back ups of player inventories & later restore them so just rolling back everything to an older restore point is no gudly at all

RubyTheSlump wrote:
I appreciate that you're annoyed about losing 600M, the reason they do a rollback is because the user can spread the cash throughout the economy to cause harm. In this particular instance, this fucko decided to use his ill-gotten gains to coinflip people, of course when he lost and was supposedly "cleaned", he's just reach right into his arsehole and whap out another couple billion like it was nothing (because it quite literally was). Of course he would have won coinflips so you have to consider that.

Sad to see people not taking advantage of the policy I wrote

RubyTheSlump wrote:
We back up our database on a daily basis (this includes all players inventories, bank balances, in-game progress, etc.). We were able to restore an earlier state of the economy *because* we have daily backups. A rollback is always our last option. Given the fact that the people exploiting this particular bug spread their "earnings" quite liberally all day and in most cases received items for them through coinflips, a full rollback was our only option. Given the sheer amount of trades and coinflips that took place, it would have taken days of downtime to individually skim through all the logs and revert the individual transactions. Again, I'm sorry for your lost time and work that has been voided but it had to be done in order to do damage control.

Martin wrote:
Yea i didn't really consider the fact that the money got spread around to multiple accounts, my bad. Just feels bad man, i was kinda excited to get my first 1bil on zarp & now im back to 200mil just bc someone else decided to be a cunt xdd

zarp ssrp economy

callumok2004 wrote: xD

ronaldmarc2009 wrote: rofl

JoshuaIsGreat wrote:

Oh deer..

who ever did it has zero iq if they did intend to cause harm

RubyTheSlump wrote:
I gave a few things to nafe when I quit link him to this post for "proof"
Nafe give this fella the golden thundergun, a gluon, mini2 and a jugg for good measure

Martin wrote: Savage

Nafe wrote:

Nafe wrote:
Gifts can give moneys I believe? If not I guess he had a fucking shit ton of the new case and got a load of money cases and repeated it

Nafe wrote:
The bug that made this exploit possible was related to the logic for keeping track of mission progress. As a result - under very specific circumstances - performing various actions on the server lead to the player getting more money than they should have. We've improved our code related to money and item transactions through those in-game actions to prevent potential future exploits using this mechanic.

Interesting exploit. I wonder how they even found out about it to do it to begin with. Wish something similar happened though for the wheel jackpot exploit that happened years ago.