Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: Pet dupe
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Hylidex
Sat Nov 13, 2004 5:47 am
#1
In the publish 11.2 pre-release notes, one if the new features listed is:
"Fixed pet duping issue."
Does anyone know what this is? Is this clearly an exploit, or is there another pet nerf in the wings?
BarneyIX
Sat Nov 13, 2004 6:07 am
#2
Any time you see Duping its an EXPLOIT.
Usually it involves taking advantage of a servers inability to update constantly.
Zadokk
Sat Nov 13, 2004 6:56 am
#3
i dont know the details but on the face of things it sounds like people were 'cloning' tamed pets.
BarneyIX wrote:
Any time you see Duping its an EXPLOIT.
Usually it involves taking advantage of a servers inability to update constantly.
JediInitate
Sat Nov 13, 2004 10:35 am
#4
Not my area but I think it was duping the pet when you crossed a boundry line on the server not sure though.
lammergeier
Sat Nov 13, 2004 11:36 am
#5
the short story is:
find a zone boundary. call a pet. cross the boundary. call the same pet. repeat.
it 'worked' with faction pets as well as with CH pets. some players would walk around with a dozen or more AT-ST's in tow.
the FIX mostly eliminates this. MOSTLY.
there were other pet dupes that I don't know the details of, and the fix (I'm told) eliminates THOSE. the server boundary 'dupe' has been fixed, but it is still possible to use a server boundary to call more pets than the control levels allow (hence the 'mostly').
the devs have been made aware of this.
find a zone boundary. call a pet. cross the boundary. call the same pet. repeat.
it 'worked' with faction pets as well as with CH pets. some players would walk around with a dozen or more AT-ST's in tow.
the FIX mostly eliminates this. MOSTLY.
there were other pet dupes that I don't know the details of, and the fix (I'm told) eliminates THOSE. the server boundary 'dupe' has been fixed, but it is still possible to use a server boundary to call more pets than the control levels allow (hence the 'mostly').
the devs have been made aware of this.
Krosc
Sat Nov 13, 2004 9:54 pm
#6
So was it actually duping pets in the datapad, or did it just allow the exploiter to call extra pets for that one session?
lammergeier
Sat Nov 13, 2004 11:16 pm
#7
Krosc wrote:So was it actually duping pets in the datapad, or did it just allow the exploiter to call extra pets for that one session?
just the session... but it allowed CH's (usually holo-folk) to get mad xp from multiple pets (when 2 pets meant double xp), and to call as many pets as they wanted with no consequences ('duped' pets didn't really exist, so vitality loss/etc was completely ignored as a permanent effect).
it was bad, and they're working on fixing it completely... this is certainly a good start.
Hylidex
Sun Nov 14, 2004 11:08 am
#8
So "duping" in this case is short for duplication? I have so much trouble with the update vocabulary sometimes because so much of it isn't in my dictionary.
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