Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-12648415-20130818194744/@comment-24108228-20131205202334

I seem to be the only one who has adventures now. Ah well, have a new shenanigan.

I was getting the shipbuilding levels so I could start testing the Big Comfy Couch to see wether it worked like the Hoverboard, when a speed hacker came along. They asked me what I was doing, and I explained that I helped with the wiki and I was testing an invention. They kindly agreed to help, (which is strange for a hacker, but as it turned out, they were nice), and I gathered the materials for a merchant frigate and they were just about to craft it into a frigate with their hacked skills (which I would normally object to, but I was not intending on staying for long and I just wanted to test it quickly), when an admin came on. This is an uncommon phenomenon, as admins are hardly active (we need some new ones) and they quickly banned the hacker that was helping me. They explained to the confused server (that was rather shell shocked by the sudden arrival of an admin and the server message command) that they had banned the hacker, and then they left.

I started getting my shipbuilding up again, and soon after, a new hacker came on the server. They private messaged me that they were the hacker that had helped me, on one of their ALT accounts, and came back. They made the frigate and I was about to burn off the excess when someone new came along. As it turns out, they were also a hacker (fortunately a nice one). We burned down the boat and turned it into a Big Comfy Couch, and he asked if I was a hacker too, and how I did such a complicated hack (I had driven it onto the land, and was driving it around). I explained that I was a wiki contributor, and was testing a bug that I wanted to exploit. My testing was complete, but I had made two good friends (albeit rule breaking ones), so I stayed on the server to play around with the new couch.

As it turns out, a magic sofa gets a huge amount of attention. Soon enough, half the server was at mainland, looking at my magical sofa, and asking to join. I told all of them that they had to be a special "Magic Sofa Magician", and they were a bit disappointed. They set up a few wooden settlements nearby, one in the forest next to canyon island, and one by the nearby chicken spawnpoint, and we considered burning them, but decided against it.

Soon, I decided that I would report my findings to the wiki, and as one of the hackers had built the frigate, the couch stayed. They said they would probably leave it somewhere obvious, and ambush anyone who tried to take it, while pretending to be the police or something, and I left, knowing that the invention would go to good use.

''The names of the hackers shall stay unknown, for three reasons. The first being that I would feel bad if I reported them and they got banned. The second being that I have no proof, so I can't prove it, and as far as anyone knows, I might be handing in the names of people who raided me and I have a grudge against. The third being that even if they were banned, they would use one of their many alt accounts to bypass the ban anyway, and they were nice people, so it is not too much of a priority to get them off the community.''