Ghost Players vs Real

[Anon.GM]

Pssst - MQ sees right through the #gmhideme, haha

Is that also true if you have not enabled GM mode on the character? Just curious as I don't turn that on as I think it only detects if the GM mode is on. I could be wrong on this, but it doesn't matter as anyone running MQ get's banned on Anon.

Ghosting of player characters part I was just expanding on as servers with multiple GMs on it could have more than one Ghost character and should be considered in your false server numbers your referring to.

[GRUMPY]

Originally Posted by Anon.GM

but it doesn't matter as anyone running MQ get's banned on Anon.

I hope you're taking that "hackers" table with a grain of salt. I've done lots of testing
with that and many innocent things will show up as an /MQ command. I just had one
recently with /MQZone entry showing up, so I went to test it and found out that a bad
set of x,y,z destinations in the zone_points table can cause that.

But "ghost characters" I was referring to are not relevant to players logged in game.
Yes, other things "in-game" can affect seperate player account numbers, but that's
a whole different topic. (boxers, etc)

[Anon.GM]

Originally Posted by GRUMPY

I hope you're taking that "hackers" table with a grain of salt.

Actually it's more accurate than most think. You just have to read it correctly and manage it right. I tested this on my server for awhile and if you don't run MQ its rare that something comes into that list. I have also made some other adjustments to it. A character showing multiple /MQWarp with location -1.78, -18.05, 5.27 is most likely using warp. I'm not talking about the rare occasion sow or speed buffs that show up here, but that one player that fills 100 rows in a day with /MQWarp. Also when this occurs in non npc summoning areas its worth looking into.

Not going to say any more on this and let this thread go back to your reasons for why its important not to leave your character logged in at character select. I misunderstood what you were referring to as important.