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Thread: Focus Thread: Components without serial numbers

NJ62
Sun May 16, 2004 8:35 am
#14






FuschiaD wrote:

I had a friend from another server send me a tell tonight asking if heavy duty leather was worth anything. He had four portions of it, all WITHOUT serial numbers. He just looted it today.






See if the portions end up with serial numbers after this server's reset. And to repeat, using unserialed components to make a manufacturing schematic or as identical portions is an exploit, and tsk tsk.



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Unwanted
Sun May 16, 2004 9:12 pm
#15

Two of my guildmates just looted heavy duty leather from Nightsisters, no serials on any of them.



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Skibot
Mon May 17, 2004 1:54 am
#16

So has anyone found out what this means??

What happens if u make a schematic and use the leathers without serials??




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JediLeong
Mon May 17, 2004 3:50 am
#17


Last night I looted 9 unserialed Heavy Duty Leather from a Nightsister.


It would be sweet if unserialed HDL were like 'joker cards' which could be used with any other serial numbers (think factory runs)..


Server is going down in a few minutes, I'll report back if the serial numbers suddenly appear

Message Edited by JediLeong on 05-17-2004 07:52 PM



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NJ62
Mon May 17, 2004 7:35 am
#18






Skibot wrote:

So has anyone found out what this means??

What happens if u make a schematic and use the leathers without serials??








If you make the schematic either of these will happen:



  • The leather is not buggy: the leather acts as a "similar" but not "identical" piece, making it impossible to run copies from the schematic (so it's a useless schematic) OR

  • There is a bug: you can run copies from the schematic. If this happens, it is an exploit. The CSR's will descend upon you. Don't do it.

In short, don't make a schematic from unserialed leathers. Bad bad bad.




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Pagannn
Mon May 17, 2004 7:51 am
#19

I looted 6 heavy duty leather portions from a Janta and they had no serial numbers.


I also looted 4 Janta hide (2 from one and 2 from another) and none of them had serial numbers either.
JediLeong
Mon May 17, 2004 10:13 am
#20






JediLeong wrote:


Last night I looted 9 unserialed Heavy Duty Leather from a Nightsister.





Server came up, I rechecked the leather. It now has (identical) serial numbers. Looks like it's not that big of a problem, the server merely forgets (at first)to assign serial numbers, or takes a while to catch up perhaps?



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NJ62
Mon May 17, 2004 10:19 am
#21

Oooooooo interesting. Serials are being assigned at server reset, eh? I'd love to have a bit more data on this so I can present something useable to the devs.



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Songe
Mon May 17, 2004 11:25 am
#22

It happens with other components as well, such as janta blood that medics can use... There is a thread about it on the doc forums.



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Unwanted
Mon May 17, 2004 11:25 am
#23

The two pieces of leather I have both had serial numbers after the reset when I came on today as well.



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C3POclone
Mon May 17, 2004 2:30 pm
#24




  • There is a bug: you can run copies from the schematic. If this happens, it is an exploit. The CSR's will descend upon you. Don't do it.

In short, don't make a schematic from unserialed leathers. Bad bad bad.





Is there a dev-generated forum post I can read about this? I was not aware that such activities had been officially outlawed.

ZahrIna
Mon May 17, 2004 5:47 pm
#25

**looks up at previous post**


Someone's been making schem's without serials. /tsk-tsk





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BinaryZero
Tue May 18, 2004 4:51 am
#26

Found these for sale in my server's trade forums...



http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=intrepid_trade&message.id=68334





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