I understand your indifferent point of view, as players can and do take advantage of known issues such as this. I just personally don't understand the ways they are attempting to legitimize their abuse of the system. ie. Those who are saying that it's the only way they are able to get enough gold to...
I can help with any server side / client side security. ie. any concerns with hacking and/or modification of data or packet manipulation/forging. I will work under the conditions that I am given full disclosure of any hardware and software being used and I get a negotiable % of revenue after the rel...
I think there should be fields that state both things.
One for how many players are online, and one for how many characters you currently have on the server.
That will get rid of any confusion, as well as allow people to make better choices as to which server they choose to play on.
I agree that topics like this puts pressure on the developers to fix problems, but this isn't the best way to do it. For the time being, it's still exploiting the system... They already knew about the problem, but it's not like they can simply send out a fix, especially this close to a new build rel...