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SirRocky
Sun Nov 07, 2004 11:30 pm
#1
Through an accidental experimentation with my Energy Pulse 3 ability @ master pilot, I stumbled upon a .... bug... or exploit.
Energy Pulse is a neutral pilot ability that uses capacitor energy from your ship to cause an explosion around your ship, in order to damage/destroy close by attacking ships.
However, the ability description warns not to do it when friendlies are close, because it can hurt them as well.
It doesn't allow you to use it if players are real close to you. But, I accidentally found that if they aren't right on top of you, you can use it, and if they are close enough, it will blow them up.
I was sitting outside the naboo spacestation and wanted to see what epulse3 looked like.....
I fired it..... there were about 8-10 players around me at various distances, but none close enough to trigger the safety override.
The casualties were another YT-1300, a Yacht, about 3 or 4 TIE ships, and numerous other player ships all by the space station.
So for neutral pilots, be very wary of how you use this ability. Not sure how SOE takes it, but if you do it to grief, I imagine they will ban you or suspend your account. Hopefully they will release a fix for it soon.
For non-neutral pilots..... be very wary of how you treat neutral pilots that might be willing to exploit this ability on you. It will kill you instantly, and it will cause decay to your ship.
I bug reported it, though it's more of an exploit.
(please respond to keep this thread @ the top so the devs will take a look and fix this problem)
Message Edited by SirRocky on 11-07-2004 10:33 PM
JediForceGuy
Sun Nov 07, 2004 11:33 pm
#2
Thanks for the warning... Does this work for other energy pulses as well?
SirRocky
Sun Nov 07, 2004 11:35 pm
#3
Not really sure.... I would be willing to test it with people in eclipse....
I can make a couple light novice lvl ships and we can try it out.
I would guess it does but to a lesser degree. Epulse3 is the most powerful, the others might not blow people up, but would probably damage their ships, and cause them trouble.
SirRocky
Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:34 am
#6
Actually.... I did it twice 
I didn't realize what had happened the first time, and then got a tell from a YT-1300 pilot about it. We discussed it, and he tried epulse3 on me, but gave a safety override message and wouldn't let him do it.
Apparently if you are real close, it won't do it, but if you are a little bit away from the person, it will do it, and kill them (generally).
So I am sure I pissed off alot of people. Not really on purpose...... I did the epulse3 on purpose, but didn't know the effect... and on the 2nd time, didn't know it was going to fire again, and more or less was testing it, wasn't doing it for griefing purposes.
I have to admit...... it was probably the funniest thing I've seen in SWG in a long time...... but at the same time, I feel bad for blowing up random people's ships.....
dBugged
Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:35 am
#7
I'll bet a few of them didn't know what hit them. I was blown up a few times during beta just sitting at the base and never saw any hostiles around... wonder if this is what happened. LOL
Message Edited by dBugged on 11-08-2004 10:37 AM
Fusch69
Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:35 am
#8
hmm, we can meet and test if the other lower lvl Energy Pulse have the same Effect
SirRocky
Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:45 am
#9
I'll be in a bit later, Hardesty, got some stuff to do today, but then going to make a smaller ship other than my YT-1300 to test it out with. If I see you in, I'll send a tell.
truewildman
Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:56 am
#11
That would be a bug, as you aren't supposed to damage other players unless you're in Kessel or Deep Space. I would suspect a fix for this coming real soon.
SirRocky
Mon Nov 08, 2004 9:01 am
#12
truewildman wrote:
That would be a bug, as you aren't supposed to damage other players unless you're in Kessel or Deep Space. I would suspect a fix for this coming real soon.
I don't know if I agree with that... may be arguing semantics... but the description of energy pulse does say it can damage friendly ships nearby.
I don't think it was their intent that it be used to grief, but I think it was their intent that it be able to damage groupmates/friendly npcs, to avoid people from excessively using it on enemies.
Rahazia
Mon Nov 08, 2004 9:26 am
#13
this is no bug. if you'vehadread the manual (Energy Pulse3 / EPULSE3). you will see that is NO bug !
sure i know what you mean, and griefing with this would'nt be nice.
but how often can you do this pulse ? every second ? i really have no idea.
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