Emergency Maintenance is occurring at 2:30am PDT to patch the recent outbreak of exploits that were found to be in use. The maintenance will take approximately 1 hour. Our team has been working hard to fix these exploits. These fixes will occur in 2 different patches. The first will be tonight to block all current security issues. We also hope that this will now eliminate the bots too. The second part will occur during our scheduled maintenance next week. This will enhance and solidify the patch tonight. Because of the abuse we have been seeing with the handcuffs, they will be taken out during that maintenance too. They will be brought back to the game when some issues have been resolved with them. We take these issues very seriously and our GM staff has been banning users throughout the day that were found to be exploiting.
With the launch of the first major township battle later today, we do not want to see these exploits in game. Although we are patching for this now, we understand that there may be a small chance that someone will be able to find another exploit to use. So here is a warning to all. Anyone in the guild that is found to use an exploit during the township battle will have the following occur to them and the guild:
a. The guild will lose all points acquired during the battle.
b. If they are the winning guild, they will be stripped of the title.
c. All participating guild members with knowledge of the member doing this that were in the battle at the time of the exploiting will have their accounts banned also.(We will investigate and see if this was done intentionally or if there was prior knowledge of the member using exploits)
d. Any false reporting of exploits done by observers or members of losing guilds will have their accounts banned too.
We understand that these are strict measures but we will not allow the use of exploits. We have heard that some guilds have advised their members to download the current hacks. These are your fellow guild mates that you should be able to trust but now you will need to monitor them. There have been rumors of late that if you have spent money, then you were given a second chance. Whether or not this occurred in the past, it will no longer happen. If you are caught using an exploit, it doesn’t matter how much you have spent or have on your account. You will not be able to buy your way out. Please review the Terms of Service, section 15 on Account Terminations.
http://www.playrohan.com/tos.html
We apologize for the current emergency maintenance and thank you for your patience. We hope that the exploits are fixed and that everyone has a great time with the township battles today. We look forward to seeing the results and wish everyone luck.