Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-35391772-20180131044449/@comment-31715604-20180202032414

I'm not sure if the reason for taking the page down should be explained publicly, but basically it used to be really easy to hack in full magenta items, before AJHQ patched it so any item turned magenta with hacking would revert back. All you do is change the color ID to something undefined (such as "1") and the item's model has no texture, magenta is a color commonly used in 3D modeling to represent a 3D object has no texture data on it. This is something the whole hacking community knew about and people were hacking in full magenta items, though you may not have heard of this because it's usually kept secretive. Something people say alot in this situation is "all hacked ones are removed", but not ALL hacked ones are removed, that'd be impossible as all of them look exactly the same and there's no possible way to tell the difference. And why would AJHQ remove the hacked versions and not the glitched versions too? Both are bad to have in a game, and both are regarded as being "rare" since no one really cares if they're hacked or not, especially when thinking about the "no one could ever tell the difference" bit, which is true as both are the same thing, an untextured item with the default "no texture" color.

Could this section of the explanation potentially provoke a take-down request from WildWorks? That happened on the AJW recently for a similar reason.

I agree with the removal of the page, it wasn't really doing anything helpful. Admittedly, having all the items together was kinda nice, but that could be better done with a category if necessary.