Not Even The Force Protects Them This Time

After I sent out 158 thousand messages, they got a little pissed...

When I try and view the site www.swcombine.com, here's what i see.

That's a total ban right there. If I try to access that site in my house, that's the message I get. Now mind you, I can easily use a proxy server, like the one you use to go on blocked sites in school, and view the real site again.

The site called the Star Wars Combine, is a roleplaying site, with about 2000 active members. It is a also a game, but a pretty shitty one at best. There is no combat or fighting. It's mostly text-based. The only thing you can do is fly around and trade. When you signup you have to pick your character's name. And since it is in a Star Wars universe, it has to be something really weird. I chose the name Davad Kran.

Step 1- Write A Program, Exploit A Glitch

In the game they have a form of money called CP. I was banned for a month for writing a program and because I knew a bug in the game that could get infinite CP. My first ban is posted below.

At this point, I was kinda pissed. How many people do you know can say they have been banned from a Star Wars site for cheating. But either way, I wasn't gonna let this slide. Thirty days went by and I was back in the game. First step, start scamming people. Now as I mentioned, the only thing you can do on this site is fly around and trade. I had a ship, so I decided to trade.

Step 2- Scam People In Trading

Nothing makes a Star Wars nerd angrier than stealing his X-Wing. Here's my favorite chat log with some trader that I hated in the game before I was banned. I'm scando.

Sholan Samero was just a random name. Jesfa sent 1000 stocks to this account worth half a million and he's never getting them back. Doesn't that just suck.

Step 3- If A Dumbass Uses The Same Password, Steal Their Stuff

After a couple scams, I started talking on the chat rooms, and some guy wanted a web site host for free, so I let him use mine. His in game name was Eli Greenberg. When I made his account for the website, I asked him what password he wanted to use. He said that he wanted all his passwords to be the same. It only took me two seconds to realize that he might be using the same password for his webhosting and his Combine account. So I headed right over to the SWCombine and what do you know, the password worked. Time to cash in, right! I waited until around midnight and made off with 22 Million In-Game Money.

When I came back from school the next day, I saw the familiar screen that I received a couple months back.

I logged in as a guest and found this delightful message.

To sum it up for you, I'm no longer allowed to play that Star Wars game. Yes, I know, the shock, the horror. So, I decided to email assistants@swcombine.com. This is part of the response I got.

Yes ladies and gentlemen, I am now on President Bush's list of terrorist. In fact I'm right below Bin Laden, I better watch myself.

Give me a break. Stealing someone's X-Wing isn't a federal crime (yet). I wasn't done with this site yet though. This was just outright stupid, cyberterrorist my ass. I'm sure they'll lock me up and throw away the key for this one. Now may i redirect our attention to Star Wars nerd site #2. Don't worry, I'll get back to number one.

When I try to go to www.hapes.org, heres what I see.

Step 4- Buy Everything On The Star Wars eBay Market

Yep, you guessed it. Banned from here too. To try and scare me, I get a redirect to the FBI cyberterrorist headquarters. Hapes.org was a place where the people on the Star Wars Combine could sell their ships, sorta like an ebay for them. The first day it opened, I made an account and joyfully bought every single item posted, because just like eBay, you don't need to pay as soon as you buy. I could go on their right now and bid six million dollars for a sandwich that looks like Jesus. Nothing's stopping me except the fact they might want payment sometime soon. However in this Star Wars universe, I'm banned. So I can do whatever the hell I want. I bought 97 items on the market so it was empty, here's a screenie.

Step 5- Send Out A Couple Messages

After this, I decided I would send out a couple messages. Using my handy autorefresher plugin for FireFox, in about two hours time I sent 158,522 messages. Here's a screenie I stopped to take while doing it, before I was rudely banned.

Here's also part of a chat log about the event.

[03:07] [Kirit] I have just deleted a total of 158522 comunit spam messages. The user, who had three accounts, has been banned.

I headed over to the message boards to see if anyone was getting my mail. Here are the better parts of the thread.

One guy would delete a message, and he would receive two more to replace it. And on top of that they called me a "hacker". That's great, apparently all you need is a plugin from firefox and you can be the leetest thing on the block too. But I wasn't even finished here. Now let's tie these two sites together.

Step 6- Reset The Passwords

On the hape's site you can request someone's password by typing their username in the box and it will display the message, "An email has been sent to (insert email here)." Using my auto typer and auto clicker, I requested the emails for the more known, famous players. Then I headed back to the Combine to their password retrieval. In order to get a password from them, you needed the email account. Well, I have all their email accounts now thanks to Hapes, so basically, I opened up 35 windows of internet, and requested the password for 35 players. However, I turned on the autorefresher and every single second, 35 players were players were getting their password reset. By this I mean, it would change every second, because it generates a new one, and then emails it to you. Eventually, the server got full to the point it could no longer send out emails. Here is a log of the chatroom for the Combine, when they had realized what happened.

They disabled the password request for the night and I was given the 403 ban that you saw at the beginning of the article.

Step 7- Make A Few Fake Accounts

After that, I headed to Hapes.org, registered 50 members who signed up for the combine and but didn't signup for Hapes. Oh yeah, I forgot the damn passwords I used for their accounts. And I didn't set an email so they can retrieve their pass. Here's a screenshot.

I added as many members as far as that scroll bar can go down. Too bad they have a weird password and no way to retrieve it. That's a shame. That's a damn shame.

Step 8- Turn The Table, Try And Get Them Banned

The Combine approved of a program called CPMaster. This program automatically voted for them on best game sites. People would see how many votes the Combine has and would join. Too bad all those votes were coming from a robot and not really made by players. I sent out a couple emails to the voting sites and got the reply I wanted to hear:

As you can see, they weren't to happy about it. A couple days later, the program was shutdown. Players were mad about this one because they used the program to vote for the Combine. Every single time they voted, they got money. So now they lose a huge amount of votes and the lazy players don't get any money.

End, here's the picture that sums up the entire article though.

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