[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-this-is-not-a-bug-but-a-game-feature":3,"chapter-this-is-not-a-bug-but-a-game-feature-this-is-not-a-bug-but-a-game-feature-chapter-241":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1472119,1919,"Chapter 241 - 166: Who’s Banning Whose Account? (Part 2)","this-is-not-a-bug-but-a-game-feature-chapter-241",241,"\u003Cp>Who would have thought!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The marble crafted by the Iron Fool System, once imbued with the Marble Soul mechanism, surprisingly contained a logic bug.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the Marble Soul is below level 30, everything is fine, calm and peaceful!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But once a Marble Soul surpasses the level 30 limit, that bug gets triggered, allowing the marble to escape the original game framework and gain some game administrator permissions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Talk about game rule restrictions, like the Marble Soul can’t enter classic mode; as long as the permissions are high enough and command priority is higher, who said it can’t?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Administrator permissions?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu widened his eyes and said, \"Ba, you mean this red-patterned marble is not just a game item but, in a way, an administrator account?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To be precise, it’s not an administrator account, just an administrator permission. Whoever holds this permission, their account becomes an administrator account.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Ba sighed and said, \"I just tried to ban the player [Ba’s Little Coquettish Wife], but as you can see...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s absurd!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A game developer can’t even ban a player’s account?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It shouldn’t be!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even with partial administrator permissions, we can still delete it from the backend. There’s no way they could have access to the game operations backend and GM tools, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu found it very strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if this marble mutated and inexplicably obtained some administrator permissions, as long as it didn’t involve the operations backend and GM tools, it shouldn’t be a big problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I get what you mean. But what I’m trying to say is that this thing’s permissions will keep expanding...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Ba opened the operations backend page and pointed to a glittering account name, \"See, it’s at the same level as me; he’s also a super administrator.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The internal permission levels of a game, also known as the permission system, can generally be divided into four levels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Level one, customer service.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This level includes common permissions that many players often encounter, like bans, unbans, querying account information, checking purchase records, mutes, etc.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Level two, operations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From a player’s perspective, this level also includes game planners, with permissions much higher than customer service, covering game events, items, game modes and gameplay, class balance, numeric adjustments, etc.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Level three administrators and level four super administrators, are reserved for chief planners, producers, developers, and project leaders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The permissions at this level basically boil down to granting or revoking permissions to others, or adding or reducing permission accounts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Ba is a super administrator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Generally speaking, in Tianba Studio’s games, Chen Ba is the only super administrator; even trusted subordinates like Dong and Lu are just regular administrators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, what does he see?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the game \"Don’t Go Home: Marbles Storm,\" apart from [GameBugs], there exists another super administrator, a player named [Ba’s Little Coquettish Wife].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder the account couldn’t be banned!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a fellow super administrator, the permissions are equally high. On what grounds would you ban my account? Do you have that ability?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A... hacker intrusion?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This has nothing to do with hackers!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Ba rolled his eyes and said, \"This is a game underlying bug. Once Marble Soul exceeds level 30, it defaults ordinary players to administrators.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Initially, [Ba’s Little Coquettish Wife] was at this permission level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, his administrator permissions were incomplete, not entirely whole. Chen Ba wanted to ban the account; that was the best opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in order to investigate the cause of the issue, he missed the best chance to act, which led to [Ba’s Little Coquettish Wife] continuing to enhance the hidden level of the Marble Soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the hidden level increased, he went from having incomplete administrator permissions to becoming a super administrator of the game...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who knows if he keeps hunting other players, his permissions might continue to rise, eventually surpassing even Chen Ba, the game developer?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s embarrassing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dignified game developer can’t even handle a regular player, what a disgrace to admit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Chen Ba really didn’t have a better solution. Either stop the server, but the early access version of the game was just released a day ago; wouldn’t stopping the server have negative implications?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And even if the server was stopped, what then?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Resolving one [Ba’s Little Coquettish Wife] is just treating the symptoms, not the root cause, as long as the bug remains, it’s only a matter of time before a second little wife appears...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So what to do?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu was also dumbfounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He never imagined that one day the permissions of the game he developed would actually be inferior to a regular player’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ban the account?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’s just a regular administrator, while [Ba’s Little Coquettish Wife] is a super administrator. Who’s banning whose account?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Contact this player!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Ba sighed and said, \"Tell him the truth, let him not misuse the permissions, and to communicate with us if there are any issues.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Revoking the permissions isn’t necessary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On one hand, it’s difficult to retract, on the other hand, revoking wouldn’t solve the problem; better to fix the server, to avoid another game session with 37 players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To completely eradicate the problem?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he could fix the bug created by the Iron Fool System, he would have ascended to the Immortal Realm and become the god of programmers long ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When receiving the private message from Tianba Studio, Jiang Yongqing was studying the \"magical\" red-patterned marble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was he studying?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, it was the marble’s introduction page, and why a series of GM function modules appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He just discovered this...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While rampaging in classic mode, using Marble Soul to make other players cry, a window suddenly popped up, and the marble gained a GM backend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This shocked him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did nothing, how could the game automatically pop out the GM tool? Oh no! Ba wouldn’t think he’s a hacker, would he?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he was feeling uneasy, even hesitating whether to turn himself in to Ba and plead for leniency, he received a private message from Tianba Studio.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So that’s how it is...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the private message, Jiang Yongqing learned that it was a game bug, triggered when Marble Soul exceeds level 30, and he breathed a sigh of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucky it’s a bug!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought so, how could he have become a game GM without doing anything?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as the misunderstanding is cleared, there’s no worry about being punished by Ba. With worries lifted, Jiang Yongqing became excited immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is GM permission!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which game player wouldn’t be interested in this thing? It’s even more thrilling than playing a cracked version, after all the cracked version is at most single-player, but this is an online game!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t misuse it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After carefully looking at Ba’s reminder, Jiang Yongqing was very curious as to what extent is considered misuse?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I just fiddle around, give myself some marbles and add some Game Coins, that shouldn’t count as misuse, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After trying it and finding out he could indeed copy and generate specific game items, Jiang Yongqing finally realized how foolish he was for spending money in the game before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Turns out these things aren’t worth anything at all!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The GM tool is indeed powerful!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though this kind of high is only temporary, as coming too easily doesn’t give the same satisfaction as spending, where after one purchase you want the next.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh no!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While testing the GM tool, Jiang Yongqing suddenly remembered something, and immediately broke into a cold sweat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had shared his experiences and the bizarre occurrences in group chats, his social circle, and the Tianba Community.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Ba’s explanation, as long as someone raises the Marble Soul above level 30, they ascend to administrator...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the real mysterious gift!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that’s the case, if the way he gained permissions gets out, will it create a batch of pure player administrators like him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He listens to Ba and chooses not to cause trouble, but it doesn’t mean others will stay honest! If a troublemaker acquires permissions, it’ll be a real issue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Will this game become a player-governed game, relying on players themselves for operations and event planning?\u003C\u002Fp>",1350,"2026-06-06T03:03:37.618Z",1,"novelbin.me","2c8f9ca4e2fa4c6e9e24e3169244decf7837f36461c1c1b6450b1ad8ec480d4c","this-is-not-a-bug-but-a-game-feature-chapter-242","this-is-not-a-bug-but-a-game-feature-chapter-240",479,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-is-not-a-bug-but-a-game-feature-cover.jpg"]