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So, I was training today by myself, and out of the blue a GM Police message pops up saying something about a hack being detected.
It wasn't the first time I got that dumb pop up, even though I have never used any hacking device, so I just pressed "End Chat", so I could keep training.
After clicking "End Chat" I was disconnected and when I tried to log back on, I got booted from MS.

I tried logging in by using the game launcher only to find out I got banned for 24 hours.
I know that waiting 24 hours is not a big deal, but it pisses me off that I got banned for something I did not do. Also, what if this sort of crap happens again?
I submitted a ticket to Nexon, but I doubt I'll get an answer any time soon.
This is the first time I've been banned, so will I still be on the rankings?

Also, did anyone else experience a similar situation?

January 25, 2011

36 Comments • Newest first

BobR

[quote=GunPowder]Did anyone figure out what triggers those GM Police pop up messages?[/quote]
There doesn't seem to be ANY specific "trigger" for it.

Everyone seems to have a "theory" as to what causes it, but from reading reports from players here, and from what's happened to me it appears that ANYTHING can trigger it.

I've merely gone into a new map and as soon as I appear (not lagging, no one else showing on the mini-map, not jumping, not attacking, not doing anything), I get that popup and get disconnected.

It used to happen now and then to a few people, but since the Big Bang patch it's been happening to a LOT of people and a LOT more often now.

We all need to go to the Maple site and file a Support Ticket asking them to FIX this. If only a few people complain, they won't bother to put it at the top of their pile of things that need to be fixed.

Reply January 30, 2011 - edited
marcow1

sitting on a chair ok, because you may not be afk that's somewhere in the nexon rules I read xD
But I also had this while I was in FM.
Don't know the reason either.

Reply January 29, 2011 - edited
Defiled

My hermit got banned for a month on 1/5 for the same thing. It's been 3 weeks, no reply to my ticket. Oh well, at least by the time I come back I get to use all those energy capsules to get 4th job >

Reply January 28, 2011 - edited
Mortal920

[quote=sasrutolee]i recorded myself getting banned like that, sent it to nexon, in korea, they sent me 100k nx cards back, and [b]none of them worked.[/b][/quote]

LOOOL idk y but that's really funny to me

Reply January 28, 2011 - edited
Legendslives

i just got the same message today when i was training my assassin against a boss that was almost dead.

then i had to restart the whole boss again with full hp (that boss at kerning square and my assassin is 38)

Reply January 28, 2011 - edited
Spirit2roam

@GunPowder: Well, you can still participate in events, just not nx events. And the only way to buy nx....is though buying the card. -_-

Edit: I'm not lying. It may work for you, but it's not working for me. When I try to do free offers, I get error code = 0. When I charge paypal nx I get error code = 0

Reply January 28, 2011 - edited
Rudenessity

your still in rankings after ban

Reply January 26, 2011 - edited
GunPowder

[quote=xAerora]@GunPowder: No, Because I'm not sure about the 9 messages maybe it's more, and my first band occured like the 4/5th time and the 6th time I got banedd the 7th time also. I had it yesterday also but I didn't get banned.[/quote]

I don't get why some people get banned and some don't.

Reply January 26, 2011 - edited
GunPowder

[quote=somebody]Now that your banned once, your no longer allowed to character transfer
Happened to me once and I can't world transfer for life...[/quote]

What...? That sucks!
I hope Nexon will answer my ticket...

[quote=Tenka]Happened to me too 2 days ago and made a thread with the same title, anyways, I sent a ticked to nexon and I got back in the rankings (yay)! Good luck, I hope they ban the real hackers, not people at random because of some auto-ban glitch...[/quote]

How long did it take Nexon to reply to your ticket? and what exactly did you write?

Reply January 26, 2011 - edited
Tenka

Happened to me too 2 days ago and made a thread with the same title, anyways, I sent a ticked to nexon and I got back in the rankings (yay)! Good luck, I hope they ban the real hackers, not people at random because of some auto-ban glitch...

Reply January 26, 2011 - edited
tempnoxia

I think it was because u got the horntail/pink bean buff from FM. I mean it's clearly an in-game mod hack.

Reply January 26, 2011 - edited
somebody

Now that your banned once, your no longer allowed to character transfer
Happened to me once and I can't world transfer for life...

Reply January 26, 2011 - edited
aAznGuy

They think laggers have lag switches and then ban them.

Reply January 26, 2011 - edited
GunPowder

[quote=xJaackyy]His lying.
My cousin charged 15k paypal nx after a 1 month a/b no problems.
He made more than 10k using offers.
Not sure on events.. Doubt it.[/quote]

Yeah, I just checked if I can do free offers, and I can, even though I'm still banned.

Reply January 26, 2011 - edited
GunPowder

[quote=Spirit2roam]Actually, a day ban's a big deal. You can't charge paypal nx, participate in some events, and you can't do free offers.

Source: From self experience [/quote]

What? Seriously? I can't buy nx or participate in events?
What the fark...?

Reply January 26, 2011 - edited
Creation4Meh

@GunPowder: Well it was supposed to be Hell Banned, but I am not sure, I still cannot log on, and it is not saying anything about how long I am suspended so I am assuming I am. Though I just get disconnected from the Police pop ups on my new main....

Reply January 26, 2011 - edited
Spirit2roam

Actually, a day ban's a big deal. You can't charge paypal nx, participate in some events, and you can't do free offers.

Source: From self experience

Reply January 26, 2011 - edited
EmperorP

[quote=flyspleen]Then you weren't listening to me .
It does work, and don't say stuff you don't know about, their A/b system is crap.[/quote]

I thought the same, when the typhon glitch was still here (where it would a/b you randomly on the tyhon map), got the police I immediately closed my widow by using alt +f4 but you know what happened, I was still banned for a month. They may have a crappy ban system but when it says ban, your banned no way around it.

Reply January 25, 2011 - edited
kalorian

I've gotten the pop up twice but never been banned. I think it has to do with lag somehow.

Reply January 25, 2011 - edited
EmperorP

[quote=flyspleen]It happens to anyone, if you click Alt+F4 fast enough you won't get banned (had to learn that after 2 bans).[/quote]
If the window says you have been "auto-banned for such and such" then it's final, closing your window won't do anything as you are already registered as "banned for x amount of hours/days" in their database but if it was "disconnected for hack detection" then you can just log-on like nothing happened

Reply January 25, 2011 - edited
zzzz50

Alot of people say you get it when you attack or mob monsters too quickly making GMs thinking your doing some sort of hacking to kill them all.

Reply January 25, 2011 - edited
GunPowder

[quote=Creation4Meh]My hero got banned for Illegal Cash transactions during the mesos exploit when I never purchased Nx...Feel lucky.[/quote]

Perm ban?

Did anyone get a perm ban from those GM Police pop ups?

Reply January 25, 2011 - edited
Creation4Meh

My hero got banned for Illegal Cash transactions during the mesos exploit when I never purchased Nx...Feel lucky.

Reply January 25, 2011 - edited
GunPowder

[quote=Beginnered]You hack[/quote]

No thread is officially a thread before one of you trolls comment, right?

Reply January 25, 2011 - edited
GunPowder

[quote=xAerora]This occured around... 9 times to me. 3 out of 9 I got banned >.>[/quote]
That's weird. It was the 3rd time I got the message when I got banned for the first time.
3 Messages = 24 hours ban?

Reply January 25, 2011 - edited
PolarZero

I got the message about 5 times now on different chars. None of them was a ban, but I got a ban for 1 month right after the Big Bang patch juts because I was testing my new abilities in PyPQ (Dark Flare) -__-

Reply January 25, 2011 - edited
matthew621

i got d/ced but not banned for 24 hrs.

Reply January 25, 2011 - edited
Axis

Likewise, and just kicked.

Reply January 25, 2011 - edited
ShadoLegend

When you see monsters that are paused in one position and attack them, the message will popup.

Reply January 25, 2011 - edited
GunPowder

[quote=Sneakz77]When you lag but are still able to attack. (As in the monsters stop moving, but you are doing damage and they are dieing) It appears to them as you are hacking. Since when the game catches up to you, you've done a crazy amount of attacks in a short time span.[/quote]
Do hackers always use a hack to improve their attacking speed?
If not, how is that fair?

Reply January 25, 2011 - edited
Sneakz77

When you lag but are still able to attack. (As in the monsters stop moving, but you are doing damage and they are dieing) It appears to them as you are hacking. Since when the game catches up to you, you've done a crazy amount of attacks in a short time span.

Reply January 25, 2011 - edited
Firestone

I got it too, but didn't get banned.

I've heard that it could happen when you attack to fast... Mostly happens after you got some laggs.

Reply January 25, 2011 - edited
GunPowder

[quote=SoCalled450]time for you to quit?[/quote]
Because of a 24 hours ban?

Reply January 25, 2011 - edited
GunPowder

Did anyone figure out what triggers those GM Police pop up messages?

Reply January 25, 2011 - edited
Miauri

You wont be off-ranks. Happened to me too

Reply January 25, 2011 - edited
lenvyl

yeah, had the same issue, but I didn't get banned. It just kicked me out.

I love how Nexon is banning innocent people and letting the WH hackers have at it at all the populated maps... You'd think they would at least have those places under control...

Reply January 25, 2011 - edited