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Thread: A plea to my fellow armorsmiths, please do not participate in the crafting bug

rockanddroll
Mon May 24, 2004 6:24 am
#14



Srednii wrote:

Now if everyone had known these exploits, and everyone used em they woulda been hotpatched the next day. A level playing field ensuring that those two exploiters didn't have a huge advantage over everyone else for a whole 2 months.






Which means: tell us what the exploit is!

Maybe I'm doing it through ignorance!



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Slider067
Mon May 24, 2004 9:58 am
#15

Some clarification.......


If this is what I think it is....serial number exploit, it doesn't create anything that can't already be made not using the exploit. It simply makes it easier to make the components.


For example...


To make some segments using kryat scales, you're required to make the schematic..losing one scale and limiting the schematic to the stack of scales with the same serial number.


This would allow you to make a schematic that can be used for any scale regardless of the serial number. So really, all it does is make it easier to make more of the segments. You will still need to have the loot to do it.


Please correct me if I'm wrong. I haven't done it, so may be mistaken.


I agree that it's unethical, but hardly the game ruining hack of the century.





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DirthNader
Mon May 24, 2004 10:07 am
#16

It can be used to make better stuff than you could normally make. I had typed out exactly how to do it, but I'm sure someone would get irate with me for posting it. If you really want to know how the exploit part of this bug works, I'm sure there are enough posts still around from the unserialed krayt tissue days to piece together everything.


Let's just put it this way - you could do a whole lot of damage with one loot of exceptional layers.





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DirthNader
Mon May 24, 2004 10:09 am
#17






Tirgwystraff wrote:

If everyone sends a PM to Taurin about this, I can guarantee the Devs will fix it quickly.






LOL. When double slicing was running rampant on Ahazi, we were all PM'ing Taurin about it. People were admitting they were doing it. SOE put their head in the sand, and in fact got mad at many of us for pointing out that people were still exploiting a bug they thought they had fixed.


If you PM Taurin, don't hold your breath.





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Starpilots
Mon May 24, 2004 7:39 pm
#18

Janta blood as well (make a 1030power buff pack in 500 packs run) but the drop so low that it cant been don


bud a set of Janta hide and you can make 100-200 composite sets with 3% more base then every other AS i



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Kiom
Tue May 25, 2004 12:04 am
#19

I have never seen a Krayt scale without a serial #. But if you are talking Peko feathers and the fact that RIS layers can go in comp, I'm not sure that is an exploit. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. The only people that can answer that are the devs.


I've nevermade RIS layers unless I am making RIS armorbecause I don't want to use that many peko feathers for comp. Who's got 60-something feathers for one suit of comp. On Tempest the feathers are going for 200k+. Just doesn't make sense.





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DirthNader
Tue May 25, 2004 12:09 am
#20

We're talking about Nightsister layers and shards here. Currently they drop with no serials, but if you log out and log back in those same unserialed layers and/or shard will have serials.



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Slider067
Tue May 25, 2004 12:26 am
#21

Janta hide as well.



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guppi00
Tue May 25, 2004 1:28 am
#22

Aha, I was wondering how some AS got their base up so high AND could still factory produce. Suddenly I dont feel inferior anymore



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Kilun
Tue May 25, 2004 5:09 pm
#23






DirthNader wrote:

Let's just put it this way - you could do a whole lot of damage with one loot of exceptional layers.








This is the part that bothers me, I wish it was intended, but only for the lowest quality of the "Item Enhancers" (e.g. Krayt Tissue 30, 3% -5 and -10/-10/-10) and for whatever other ehancers.


But the damage comes in with the exceptional looted stuff w/o serials, 8% -12 or so 1000k schematic x5(if you found five) can do some serious unbalancing of armor. Add in some -20/-20/-20 enhancers and wham you good insane armor in mass production.


But if it was just 3% -5 and -10/-10/-10, it wouldn't be too unbalacing(but then again, if every smith was making this in major mass, it would be)


But as it stands, most enhancers with serials go into gloves as the amount is extremely low w/o "bugged" ones. When they finally fix this, hopefully they allow it for the lowest base stat enhancers or the fix the amount that drops to a sizeable amount to at least make something.



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Starpilots
Wed May 26, 2004 12:35 am
#24

feel the same guppi00 but good luck to them it has been in the Hotfixx looted janta blood my zelf yesterday without numbers but after the patch wel it got numbers, alo looted leathers few days back also no numbers now the have



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