Before continuing on with the post, I'd like to mention what happened with Factions Oriental and why the map had an abrupt ending. During the course of Factions Oriental, one faction had access to a 100% off coupon which allowed them to get anything on the store for free. We weren't aware of this because we assumed they were using their F-Top gift cards, however we were wrong... badly wrong. Once we realized the situation, we immediately deactivated all of their coupon codes, disabled them from being ever made again, and stopped the server to end the map early.

We choose to end the map as we felt it was wrong for our players to play on a map where we can't guarantee that a faction didn't abuse. To counteract this, all f-power purchases, all sell wands, and all chunk busters that were purchased during Factions Oriental will be returned to those who actually spent money for them. And we're implementing a new policy that all consumables (excluding crate keys) will...