Reversal of Change to Obtaining Metrics From Fresh Victims
April 7th, 2022 by Lyle MaeterlinckBased on feedback from the community, we have decided to reverse the update we made in 2020 that made it so metrics could not be obtained from fresh victims. Originally, the reasoning for this is because we noticed that some people were using the ability to gain metrics from fresh victims as an exploit to obtain unlimited free metrics. They were just creating thousands of throwaway alt accounts, and only using them for the first free metrics. They were able to do this because Second Life allows the creation of unlimited anonymous alt accounts. The update in 2020 made it so that metrics were only transferred to an attacker from fresh victims once they joined. So, the metrics were transferred at the same time that the soul was transferred.
As of today, we have reversed this update. Everyone should now be gaining metrics on the first attack of a fresh victim. There is no limit to the number of fresh victims you may obtain metrics from in a given day. We ask that everyone please cooperate with the spirit of this: it is to incentivize hunting of real Second Life accounts.
Please do not create fresh alt accounts to attack just to get free metrics!
We will be keeping an eye on this to make sure that it is not being exploited. If we observe any large-scale operations creating alt accounts in order to farm free metrics from them, any associated Bloodlines accounts with those operations will be banned. Thanks for your cooperation.