But the trust was broken. Players left. By Day 200, concurrent users dropped to 120.
Leo patched it within an hour, but the damage was done. Lyra had already spawned 500 +20 weapons and distributed them to her guild. The economy was shattered.
Leo's heart stopped. He tabbed to the WorldServer console. A flood of red errors: flyff v19 server files
[INFO] User 'Kite' has logged in. [INFO] User 'Merlin' has logged in. [INFO] User 'SorrowX' has logged in (banned flag overridden by admin).
He wrote a custom batch script to reboot the WorldServer every 4 hours at 3:00, 7:00, 11:00, 15:00, 19:00, and 23:00 server time. He called it the "Heartbeat." But the trust was broken
SorrowX logged back in. Within 90 seconds, he was in jail. He tried to log out and back in. The server remembered his flag. He deleted his character and made a new one. The Reaper Loop caught him again within five minutes.
Username: Admin *Password: *****
Leo had to ensure the siege scripts worked. v19 siege was notoriously buggy. The Flag objects sometimes despawned. The Castle Gate HP bar would freeze if a player disconnected inside the siege zone.
He opened the WorldServer console and watched the green text one last time: Leo patched it within an hour, but the damage was done