>I addressed everyone who was hacked this time around.
>
>Typically, "hacked" characters in the past have been people
>who let their roommates or dumb friends know their password
>and later regretted it. This was a hell of a brute force
>attack on a lot of different characters on a scale that I
>personally haven't seen on CF before, one that the code didn't
>handle very well at the time. I recognized that it was
>something we could defend players against better, made the
>changes to do so, and fixed the people who suffered as best I
>could.

Which isn't at all what Lyristeon said.

>Ultimately, if it's going to piss you off every time I or
>someone does something that's not consistent with something
>BoltThrower or whoever did a dozen years ago, you're going to
>be pissed off a lot. Some people got screwed, and I had
>enough free time and know-how to do so, so I did. It seems a
>little ridiculous to think that some people would be happier
>if I'd instead told those people "Sorry, but Russian hackbots
>pwnzor you."

#### you. Thats all I can say to this. I'm sick of you dismissing every complaint I have as "something from BoltThrowers day". I posted about a bug with the Dragon Spirit quest and you accused me of using someone elses walkthrough, despite the fact that I've done the quest with nearly every character I've had since the area went in. I've lost count of the humber of groups I've dragged through that damn quest. Funny thing is, I turned out to be right, didn't I?

This has NOTHING to do with things back in BoltThrowers day. This is the #### that goes on here right now, with the current staff and when you dismiss current issues as the "previous administrations" problem or someone cheating it pisses me off. Call me a paranoid crackpot all you want but don't you dare tell me this wasn't a unique situation where characters got hacked and restored, and that a mortal played by an imm wasn't in the mix. The very beginning of your post you dismiss people who may have been legitimately hacked in the past. Just because more than one person got hacked this time, it's suddenly an exception? Or was it really just you couldn't restore one without looking shady for not restoring the others?