RE: Exploiting as an issue
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 1:53 am
First and foremost, I need to apologize to not only Carpathia, Dsparil, and Galactus for this mess, but also to Leonard, the staff, and the rest of the community as well
To each and every single one of you: I have made a terrible mistake and as a result have caused people to be treated unfairly, and for this I deeply apologize
I am the one responsible for this happening, and it is my fault alone due to my actions, or lack thereof as I will explain.
When this was first reported to me several months ago, I had a chat with Leonard regarding his custom binary and how it allowed dropping weapons during ctf whereas this is not possible with an unmodified client. He stated that allowing this was unintentional and even checked out Zandronum's source code to provide information on what's going on and how to possibly fix it, which then led to me to create a tracker ticket so as to bring it to the dev's attention.
The problem, however, is that I somehow completely and utterly failed to bring this to the staff's attention at the time, and I had only realized this when it was too late.
Now, when this issue came up recently, I was under the assumption that the staff was also aware of this critical need-to-know information, but unfortunately I was gravely mistaken. This has caused the issue to escalate much more than it should have and it's possible that it might not have even happened at all, were it not for my error.
There is no excusing me and I regret that this has happened and I am ashamed, for I have let down both the staff and the community. Things have been done and said that cannot be erased nor forgotten, but I hope that those involved in this can be forgiven, as I am to blame, not them.
It was not my intention for something like this to happen and I am truly very sorry.
To each and every single one of you: I have made a terrible mistake and as a result have caused people to be treated unfairly, and for this I deeply apologize
I am the one responsible for this happening, and it is my fault alone due to my actions, or lack thereof as I will explain.
When this was first reported to me several months ago, I had a chat with Leonard regarding his custom binary and how it allowed dropping weapons during ctf whereas this is not possible with an unmodified client. He stated that allowing this was unintentional and even checked out Zandronum's source code to provide information on what's going on and how to possibly fix it, which then led to me to create a tracker ticket so as to bring it to the dev's attention.
The problem, however, is that I somehow completely and utterly failed to bring this to the staff's attention at the time, and I had only realized this when it was too late.
Now, when this issue came up recently, I was under the assumption that the staff was also aware of this critical need-to-know information, but unfortunately I was gravely mistaken. This has caused the issue to escalate much more than it should have and it's possible that it might not have even happened at all, were it not for my error.
There is no excusing me and I regret that this has happened and I am ashamed, for I have let down both the staff and the community. Things have been done and said that cannot be erased nor forgotten, but I hope that those involved in this can be forgiven, as I am to blame, not them.
It was not my intention for something like this to happen and I am truly very sorry.