Critical bug alert: free bases in ao

What were you doing before bug occurred: Playing AO with my friends @Flare and @WarmWater

Steps to reproduce: COMPLETELY UNKNOWN, please look into this!

F9 Logs ( press f9 to view them in-game): unsure if this is helpful but “infinite” definitely had me raise my eyebrow:

This entire castle was purchased with ZERO galleons due to the bug:


Story:

I was building on my small farm island when I noticed something really odd with my treasury galleons, they didn’t seem to go down at all when I placed things. I thought this was just a visual bug, but then I tested higher tier structures, and suddenly I realized I could actually place MULTIPLE tier 5 and lower objects. As you can see… I kinda took this to the maximum, and I built a massive base for COMPLETELY FREE.

I unfortunately did the foolish move and I SAVED this castle, I thought maybe it would just see this as fraud and even if I saved over it, there’d be like some kind of error message, but no, the base ACTUALLY SAVED and now I essentially own this massive castle.

I have ZERO CLUE how this bug happened, and although it was admittedly great fun to build a superbase for basically free, this can easily be exploited for malicious means if others possibly find out how to recreate it and I would really appreciate it if someone could figure this out.

please don’t ban me btw thanks :sob:

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you made the mistake of telling this bug publicly

side note I was not and have not been in the server for hours before this happened idk why typ mentioned me. He also rejoined the game and could still load the base for free. He was able to place down anything that costed less than 77 thousand galleons (he had that much in his bank).

I mentioned you cuz we were playing before this and I was messing around with my island while you were using my auction NPC

I rejoined when you left after making the castle and I discovered it actually saved.

uh try joining a different server and see if it works

I did, it’s still there.

I feel so spooked dude… I have a ghost castle…

Hi Typ please use the discord to make bug reports. I’ll push it through but this category is really rarely checked.

Also there really isn’t much to go off here without a video. nope nevermind found a video of the same bug and it’s still as confusing wtf.

I won’t get into trouble for this right?

I mean I know I kinda sorta maybe exploited this gamebreaking glitch by making the castle of my dreams but I don’t really plan to use it for anything other than it looking cool.

Actually in a roundabout way I sorta did what testers do by accident lol

To be completely honest, idk. I’ll see if I can get a game mod to check at some point.

yikes.

I mean worst case scenario I guess I can delete everything and save over it… though I really don’t wanna do that for obvious reasons (since my actual legitimate stuff would have to go too)

All things considered this is a really cool castle tho

Isn’t this bug known already? It’s been spread throughout the top clans for a while now and I’m pretty sure it’s been reported too, though for some reason there isn’t any hotfix for it in weeks.

I’m assuming it’s because clans are getting soft wiped in full release anyways.

I had a similar bug during the yuletide event, where if I placed a structure, it visually did take the money out of my bank but I could make the money appear again after moving any amount of galleons back into the bank.
also deleting structures added extra money into the bank after refilling it the aforementioned way, although this would reset back to the amount that should be in your bank upon rejoining or putting more of your own money into the clan bank.
but there were also a couple other weird things that happened during that time, like farms just not harvesting even though I had a farmer, and me not getting any claim infamy (maybe because the clan had negative infamy, idk)
anyways, that was fixed after the yuletide event ended, but this just feels very similar to it.
(I guess it’s basically the same bug, but the bank automatically updates itself instead of you having to manually do it, since they could only place structures that cost less than the amount they had in the bank)

Oh alright, so I guess no real harm was done then.

Well I suppose this topic can close since it does seem like this isn’t anything new.

@Divanochi could you do the honors please :innocent: