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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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So I just found out about this credit reset thing. I have a really, really, really, unreliable internet connection. My cable modem rests 7-8 times DAILY on it's own. There is a problem with the line and my cable company is currently working on fixing it. However yesterday when I was doing gruntpocalypse trying to finish the challenge for killing 250 enemies, I had finished the challenge and continued on to finish the grunt killing. Before the game was up I was disconnected from Xbox live because of my crappy connection. Now as I mentioned before my internet disconnects 7-8 times DAILY so I just continued playing until the game was over, got my credits, and then signed back on. I then noticed that my challenge wasn't completed. I figured I didn't get my credits for it, so I played another game of gruntpocalypse and finished the challenge without losing my connection. I told my friend how weird it was that the challenge didn't say completed even though I did complete it. He then told me about this whole offline glitch thing. I didnt know anything about it so I came here for answers and found this thread. I'll admit yes I did do the Oni sword base thing and I play A LOT of firefight, but those are in-game modes so I am not worried about it. BUT I have made my way to warrant officer grade 3 LEGITIMATELY and I'm worried that Bungie is going to reset my score because of my stupid internet connection. This only happened ONE time, with one challenge, but as I read it, there is no defined amount of times a person does it before they get reset. I understand people who used this hack to get to the highest rank possible is not cool. But mine happened because of an unreliable internet connection only once and if I get reset because this happened only once, I will be very displeased. Should I be worried this will affect me? I have my fingers crossed that bungie will see that I clearly did not use this exploit to "rank up", but if the way they check for this is done by a computer, how will it determine the difference from a person who did did this just once, from a person who did it a thousand times? I think that if the way they are checking is some computer program, it's not going to see that this only happened to me once and there in turn count me as guilty and ban me. Is there anyone who can give me an official answer about this?
