4 days with no access to a computer, and 3 days of data gathering. Go figure. The things I do for you guys… So, have you ever had a level 188 person in your group? Strange huh? Well I have some answers for that. Here’s the result of the data I gathered:
If you have a level 188 here’s what you have a possibility of happening to you, due to rumors:
-You might get hacked because this is supposed to be a glitch of a hacker invading your computer through entering your group on Eo. (Rumor)
-You may be jailed or walled because this is supposed an admin in your party spying on your actions and chats to determine if you are speeding/breaking the rules or not. (Rumor from a citizen that has actually experienced and been walled witnessing a level 188 in his party. He was in fact speeding.)
-A simple game glitch, in order to fix this all you have to do is log on and log off.
I asked 20 people if they ever experienced this “glitch” before. Here are the results.
4 said yes.
16 said no.
Out of those four people, each citizen said they got hacked, walled/jailed, or it was a simple game glitch. The fourth person said he got hacked, so 2 out of 4 people said they got hacked, that’s 50 percent.
So basically, in order to confirm it was a hack I had to use one of my “decoy” computers and play with the system a bit. I provoked the hack and had it happen to my “mule” account on my “decoy” computer. It in fact IS someone trying to hack you. Here’s a few ways to stop it once it’s already happened.
-Log out, if you can manage to do it fast enough.
-Leave the group, also if you can do it fast enough.
-It takes about 30 seconds to infect you so if you can’t log out or leave the group in time, UNPLUG YOUR COMPUTER.
If you can manage to do any of these things before about 30 seconds you’re safe.
Basically to prevent this “188 mystery” from happening to you, you should never join unknown people’s groups, or basically piss someone off to the extent that they would want to do this sort of thing. Be careful.
Any questions? Leave a comment.
By the way: Sorry for the wait! Good stories take long to put together.
---Karagu
