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First, some information about the items themselves. As you can probably imagine, Metin2 has its own internal database of all the possible items in the game, each with its own ID. For example, a
sword has an ID of 00010. The same is true for armors; the armors which we all know and love start with IDs at 11200, and end at just under 12000.
However, for various reasons (development, special, leftovers not meant for use etc) various extra incomplete "copies" of these armors exist. They should never be found in a normal server, and aren't really much use either. This holds true for most of the armors on
Metin2 US, including the prized 
Steel Plate Armor, which has an ID from 11290 to 11299.
Why is this important for you to know? It should hopefully allow you to understand how some of these "dud" armors have made it into the wild on the Free Kingdom server, and why they are useless. We can only assume this has happened via actions originating from Metin2 US Support. A player might have trouble with a Steel Plate Armor+9, or they might lose it, be the victim of a scam etc. When replacing the armor, the [GM] simply searches through the item database for "Steel Plate Armor+9", and when he/she finds an ID for it, spawns the item with that ID to that player.
Of course, in this case the staff have been making mistakes in doing so; spawning development/dud versions of the armor in question to players instead. The dud armors appear to look like normal ones, but players are unable to socket stones in them. It is unknown if they are able to add stats to them either.
Metin2 US Free Kingdom player Yogashi encountered such an armor being sold in a shop and consequently bought it, though later discovered that he could not insert spirit stones into it.
Metin2 US players are referring to the armors as being "hacked", presumably by players wanting to do anything possible to achieve +9 armors. It's an excusable mistake. We're pretty certain it is only down to [GM] error.
All that's needed to fix this issue is for a staff member to simply search for players in possession of items with the "dud" IDs, and either remove, replace, or investigate further into how that player received the item.
Sources: Z8 Forum, Rynaqul@youtube, Private contacts
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Why would a GM give a SPA +9 +100kk for a player who lost a Dragon Scale Plate +9 (worth around 30kk)?
Also, he lost the armor due to the old ''stone craft book'' trick... GMs use to say they will only recover the lost item if it is not sold yet... Once they couldn't recover the DSP, I think it's pretty clear to see they wouldn't gift that much to that player. It's more likely the guy made that armor somehow. There are lots of videos on youtube showing how to make +9 items.
"Making" those items in those videos means editing your client's memory to make it show those items. You don't actually have those items - not at all.
So is it only the appearance? For example, the 144 AC won't be added on your character status?
No, these are actual items on the server.
Why can't you understand the difference between an actual item, and some idiot modding his client to display one item as if it was something else?
They are real items, but they are bad versions of actual items we normally have. They're just probably leftovers from the development / testing of the game.
No player would have them if some newbie [GM] could check what they're actually giving a player.
These items are different only in your client.The hack is client side.So it does not affect the server.People can not see this item +9 and there is no actual change in damage.
Well, when I bought the armor, the stats worked, all of them, and everyone could see it as an spa +9, only the adding of stones was not possible. The only mystery is, is to why a GM gave that as compensation for the loss of a level 42 armor, which makes no sense to me. Bit of corruption maybe, who knows.
Hmm.....
That SPA +9 is a real armour. Sadly, a GM who didn't know that there are 2 sets of vnum for all the level 66 armours, accidentally created it by mistake. In the same way, some items have 2 sets of vnum which are not working properly or bugged. We even has a set of level 61 shield +9 giving 227 AC and 30% character resistance and some armour with prefixed godly bonus.
Also the ssb with 10% warrior resistance.Does this come from a GM's error?
No the impossible bonus came from GM ignorance not errors. When ppls lost their items they reported them with a screen or with a video, and the GMs obviously mistaked 10 vs warrior with 10 warrior resistance, thats why was common to find an armor with strong vs warrior and a ssb with resistance to warrior
I remember that when those fake armors/ssb were in the game was due to the new item mall. On korean those armors can be purchased from item mall, but are just show off, they cant be socketed.
As soon as they fixed those bugged armor never appeared, so this one was created by a gm, but why?
Well either the guy who sent that ticket is telling the truth or the gms sell +9 stuffs to player for real money, and they even sux in that coz they give the bugged version lol
If a GM sells items these are taken from closed accounts,because all the created items can be seen fromt he database.Hence if they create an armor+9 they have to put an excuse like:"it was for returning it back to a player".Maybe these disproportionate reimburses all come from GM's corruption:a player invent that he lost some items,which he maybe just threw away,and the GM says he created the spa+9 as a reimburse so avoiding all suspects.So if he got asked why he created the spa he can answer that it was to help a player recovering his lost items.All this covered by ignorance because maybe a [CM] (or whoever is upon GM's and must control them) neither know what's a spa,and which are the values over these items.
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Metin2 US Staff Slip Up, Hand Out Dud Armors
• Posted: May 31, 2010, 05:17:22 PM by Dweia
First, some information about the items themselves. As you can probably imagine, Metin2 has its own internal database of all the possible items in the game, each with its own ID. For example, a
sword has an ID of 00010. The same is true for armors; the armors which we all know and love start with IDs at 11200, and end at just under 12000. However, for various reasons (development, special, leftovers not meant for use etc) various extra incomplete "copies" of these armors exist. They should never be found in a normal server, and aren't really much use either. This holds true for most of the armors on
Metin2 US, including the prized Steel Plate Armor, which has an ID from 11290 to 11299.
Why is this important for you to know? It should hopefully allow you to understand how some of these "dud" armors have made it into the wild on the Free Kingdom server, and why they are useless. We can only assume this has happened via actions originating from Metin2 US Support. A player might have trouble with a Steel Plate Armor+9, or they might lose it, be the victim of a scam etc. When replacing the armor, the [GM] simply searches through the item database for "Steel Plate Armor+9", and when he/she finds an ID for it, spawns the item with that ID to that player.
Of course, in this case the staff have been making mistakes in doing so; spawning development/dud versions of the armor in question to players instead. The dud armors appear to look like normal ones, but players are unable to socket stones in them. It is unknown if they are able to add stats to them either.
Metin2 US Free Kingdom player Yogashi encountered such an armor being sold in a shop and consequently bought it, though later discovered that he could not insert spirit stones into it.
Metin2 US players are referring to the armors as being "hacked", presumably by players wanting to do anything possible to achieve +9 armors. It's an excusable mistake. We're pretty certain it is only down to [GM] error.All that's needed to fix this issue is for a staff member to simply search for players in possession of items with the "dud" IDs, and either remove, replace, or investigate further into how that player received the item.
Sources: Z8 Forum, Rynaqul@youtube, Private contacts
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#1 • by leon683, May 31, 2010, 06:16:32 PM
Why would a GM give a SPA +9 +100kk for a player who lost a Dragon Scale Plate +9 (worth around 30kk)?
Also, he lost the armor due to the old ''stone craft book'' trick... GMs use to say they will only recover the lost item if it is not sold yet... Once they couldn't recover the DSP, I think it's pretty clear to see they wouldn't gift that much to that player. It's more likely the guy made that armor somehow. There are lots of videos on youtube showing how to make +9 items.
#2 • by Roph, May 31, 2010, 07:02:06 PM
"Making" those items in those videos means editing your client's memory to make it show those items. You don't actually have those items - not at all.
#3 • by leon683, May 31, 2010, 08:02:07 PM
So is it only the appearance? For example, the 144 AC won't be added on your character status?
#4 • by Roph, May 31, 2010, 08:06:37 PM
No, these are actual items on the server.
Why can't you understand the difference between an actual item, and some idiot modding his client to display one item as if it was something else?
They are real items, but they are bad versions of actual items we normally have. They're just probably leftovers from the development / testing of the game.
No player would have them if some newbie [GM] could check what they're actually giving a player.
#5 • by saintmoglis, May 31, 2010, 09:13:28 PM
These items are different only in your client.The hack is client side.So it does not affect the server.People can not see this item +9 and there is no actual change in damage.
#6 • by leon683, May 31, 2010, 11:02:48 PM
Why can't you understand the difference between an actual item, and some idiot modding his client to display one item as if it was something else?I did understand, I was talking about the youtube ones, tho I didn't make myself clear
#7 • by rynaqui, June 01, 2010, 12:08:24 AM
Well, when I bought the armor, the stats worked, all of them, and everyone could see it as an spa +9, only the adding of stones was not possible. The only mystery is, is to why a GM gave that as compensation for the loss of a level 42 armor, which makes no sense to me. Bit of corruption maybe, who knows.
#8 • by Christopher, June 01, 2010, 01:37:33 AM
Hmm.....
That SPA +9 is a real armour. Sadly, a GM who didn't know that there are 2 sets of vnum for all the level 66 armours, accidentally created it by mistake. In the same way, some items have 2 sets of vnum which are not working properly or bugged. We even has a set of level 61 shield +9 giving 227 AC and 30% character resistance and some armour with prefixed godly bonus.
#9 • by SpitFire, June 01, 2010, 05:31:59 AM
Also the ssb with 10% warrior resistance.Does this come from a GM's error?
#10 • by Crono86, June 01, 2010, 06:07:12 AM
No the impossible bonus came from GM ignorance not errors. When ppls lost their items they reported them with a screen or with a video, and the GMs obviously mistaked 10 vs warrior with 10 warrior resistance, thats why was common to find an armor with strong vs warrior and a ssb with resistance to warrior
I remember that when those fake armors/ssb were in the game was due to the new item mall. On korean those armors can be purchased from item mall, but are just show off, they cant be socketed.
As soon as they fixed those bugged armor never appeared, so this one was created by a gm, but why?
Well either the guy who sent that ticket is telling the truth or the gms sell +9 stuffs to player for real money, and they even sux in that coz they give the bugged version lol
#11 • by SpitFire, June 01, 2010, 07:06:56 AM
If a GM sells items these are taken from closed accounts,because all the created items can be seen fromt he database.Hence if they create an armor+9 they have to put an excuse like:"it was for returning it back to a player".Maybe these disproportionate reimburses all come from GM's corruption:a player invent that he lost some items,which he maybe just threw away,and the GM says he created the spa+9 as a reimburse so avoiding all suspects.So if he got asked why he created the spa he can answer that it was to help a player recovering his lost items.All this covered by ignorance because maybe a [CM] (or whoever is upon GM's and must control them) neither know what's a spa,and which are the values over these items.
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