Speaking as a new player to the server, I've observed the DDoS strikes happening right around the 6:30 p.m. Pacific Time frame with regularity and it's disheartening. It's one thing for a server to get attacks like this just to disrupt play of the players. It's a far worse experience to watch your character die from lag and know it's because someone is duping high end shit to wreck the server's economy further.
I know the server Admins love and cherish this server and I know they hate this happening far more than I ever will. So I'll keep playing and keep hoping that some measures will be decided upon in an effort to thwart whoever is doing this from making a profit from it.
If it means taking the server down for 48 or 72 hours to purge accounts of duped crap, so be it. I'm uncertain if that's even possible with items having matching ID #'s for their type, rather than having them assigned individually... But I'm of the opinion that a drastic imperfect solution of any sort is better than letting this go in terms of the server's future.
Best of luck, team.
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