It took me one hour to reproduce the whole situation and it was no hacker but kind of an exploiter.
2 guys.
I always feared it would happen if people find out about it but was maybe naive.
Now IF @Conspiracy gives you your stuff back then there is a 1% chance that one of the guys MISSCLICKED a quite obvious action and acted in such a way that it RANDOMLY destroyed your ships… then I am fine with it.
But let me explain what happened.
For Alliance I created a mission which spawns a Drone and their task is to destroy that drone. That should train Alliance some shooting. Cool.
The problem with that chapter / mission is, that you can repeat it every time you deactivate and activate the mission. So toggle the chapter couple of times and you can have 50 drones… on PVE… destroying everyone everywhere.
A warning alarm got me yesterday already as I saw this:
A 2mb playfield log file?
Yes, because it is flooded with a warn message, resulting from that drone chapter.
I found out later and during the night I already wanted to remove that mission today. But I guess I was too late.
Because this drama here happened already:
so 7:33 AM the ADK PDA chapter got activated. And what is that chapter?
The drone mission
Little background knowledge here is at the very top line: the ADK mission only get activated IF the previous Alliance mission got completed.
And that first mission can only get completed at the Alliance Starter planet.
So the only people who were at THAT time at THAT position were only two Alliance guys.
And I’m naming here player because I get myself called as liar??
It was not easy to find out everything and I really care about truth so be careful.
Of course their backpacks were after some minutes full of ingots of everything.
TL;DR: there is a 1% chance of coincidence and accident what happened here and any punishment would be reverted if the guys giving ACP their stuff back. I’ll wait a bit if this is happening.
But 99% were looking from a general sight exploiting and even if it was maybe my mistake to try to implement a cool (but buggy mission) it still falls under our rule:
Hope it is clear now.
The mission got obviously removed on both servers.