Blkbird
King
- Joined
- Oct 29, 2005
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Dear fellow PBEM players,
Just now, an unbelievably huge flaw in Civ4's PBEM game has been coincidentially discovered by me. The advantage one can gain by exploiting it is so shocking that I'm reluctant to publish the details at this time, even though I'm usually an advoate of "full disclosure".
I'm naming this flaw the Infinite (Something) Bug, because it gives a player unlimited "something". What this "something" is, I won't say here (but of course I know it) - it will eventually be revealed sooner or later. And needless to say, this something is very much limited when the game is played in a normal way. In fact, the infinity of it renders the whole game meaningless.
I'd like to point out that I haven't, in any way, "hacked" the game. I discoved this flaw completely by chance during actual gameplay. No monitoring, tracing, disassembling, debuging or other kinds of analysis software (or hardware) was used, not even a hexeditor or the Windows Notepad for that matter. Only the game itself was necessary to find the flaw. In other words, every "computer idot" could make this discovery just like I did. I'd even say that chance if high this flaw has already been found by others, as it really is easy to run into.
I'm now waiting for people associated with the game's maker to contact me via forum PM. I assure my intensions are good, I'm not going to blackmail anyone in any way. I'm not even hunting for fame, as I absolutely wish to remain anonymous.
But please, do not spam me if you're not working for the game's maker (and no, journalists etc. don't count). If you do try, I garantee your message will be ignored.
In case anyone thinks this is a hoax, or a misunderstanding on my side, I'm willing to deliver proof, but only to an admin of the Civilization Fnatics' Forum. Sorry, admins of other Civ related sites and forums, please refraim, as I'm but one man who doesn't want to deal with a whole army of you.
Just now, an unbelievably huge flaw in Civ4's PBEM game has been coincidentially discovered by me. The advantage one can gain by exploiting it is so shocking that I'm reluctant to publish the details at this time, even though I'm usually an advoate of "full disclosure".
I'm naming this flaw the Infinite (Something) Bug, because it gives a player unlimited "something". What this "something" is, I won't say here (but of course I know it) - it will eventually be revealed sooner or later. And needless to say, this something is very much limited when the game is played in a normal way. In fact, the infinity of it renders the whole game meaningless.
I'd like to point out that I haven't, in any way, "hacked" the game. I discoved this flaw completely by chance during actual gameplay. No monitoring, tracing, disassembling, debuging or other kinds of analysis software (or hardware) was used, not even a hexeditor or the Windows Notepad for that matter. Only the game itself was necessary to find the flaw. In other words, every "computer idot" could make this discovery just like I did. I'd even say that chance if high this flaw has already been found by others, as it really is easy to run into.
I'm now waiting for people associated with the game's maker to contact me via forum PM. I assure my intensions are good, I'm not going to blackmail anyone in any way. I'm not even hunting for fame, as I absolutely wish to remain anonymous.
But please, do not spam me if you're not working for the game's maker (and no, journalists etc. don't count). If you do try, I garantee your message will be ignored.
In case anyone thinks this is a hoax, or a misunderstanding on my side, I'm willing to deliver proof, but only to an admin of the Civilization Fnatics' Forum. Sorry, admins of other Civ related sites and forums, please refraim, as I'm but one man who doesn't want to deal with a whole army of you.