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I'm glad no one has said anything about this anymore to me. In all only three people have asked me to do this for them before. It's definetly not something I would advertise or mention to patrons. I hope to see someone weigh in on this and give us a little guidance as to this matter. It just doesnt feel right and I am very reluctant to do this but do not wish to deny my customer.

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Groovymarlin wrote:

Well I think it's maybe a bug or a loophole. I don't think it's an exploit.

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An exploit is, by definition, exploiting a bug or loophole.

And I will say this is an exploit and you can count on it being fixed. You will not get a developer coming to declare every little thing an exploit, as that will let more people know about it than it will deter from using it. I doubt there will be bannings for people using it.. But there will be a penalty. Specifically, if your customers get used to you doing stacked buffs, when it is fixed you'll have to explain to them why you can't do it anymore.

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Tiaga wrote:

An exploit is, by definition, exploiting a bug or loophole.

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Well, when you put it like that...

I'm almost afraid to ask how they'll "fix" this. It's been around for a long time, apparently. Were they just not aware of it before, or it wasn't a high priority?

I've never done it, by the way, but a friend did it to me once with a musician buff. It was kind of nice having the double duration, especially since our best buffs run out after two hours but most doctor buffs last at least three.

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Coreena wrote:

Almost... and it still works, at least a few days ago.

You do the 1st buff normally, the watcher /stopwatch-es

then he starts watching again, and you /setperform again, and buff again. In the end he does NOT /stopwatch, and he runs not away (since the "you stop watching cause too far away" is the same as /stopwatch), because that would try to apply the buff now, but since he's already buffed it won't work.

Instead you /stopdance. Now the watcher can leave the area without getting the "you stop watching..." message when he leaves.

When the first buff runs out he types /stopwatch, and the second buff activates.

Since we can't overwrite buffs like doc's can (if you go with a buff that lasts for another 30 mins to the same doc (or someone with better stats), you'll get the buff refreshed to 3 hours again), since we can't extend a buff over 2 hours, no matter what, while docs get 3:40 hours on my server regulary i think its kinda fair that with this we can do our buffs for the same duration, or "refreshing" a buff this way (activate it when the other is gone)

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