Merchant Archive
Thread: Oh put a cork in it!
MrElmar wrote:
>NO OTHER profession allows you to gain XP whilst logged
>off.
not that i am trying to jump into a p!ss!ng contest ya'all got going on here .. but just as an FYI ... my city's maint is run about 3am my time ... my mayor toon gets all of his xp for politician when i am logged off.
Ah didn't know that, you learn something new each day!
The whole point is the game is so huge, can't really be bothered to worry about things being an explot or not, if its an exploit it gets fixed, if it doesn't then it couldn't be an exploit, but with these devs it can be. If I worried about every possible amazing thing that happens in a game to be an exploit, so did nothing to encourage that exploit, then I'd be missing out if it wasn't an exploit, and there would really be no point in playing the game at all.
That gaining merchant xp, without being logged in, is not an exploit, but could be perceived as one, so its hard to differentiate between whats an exploit and whats not, for cases like these, just have to trust the devs to sort it out if its an exploit.
I just leave the dealing of exploits to the devs, but if I came across a bug that I found that gave me extra cash, which wasn't able to be done before, I would report it, and not continue to exploit it, but such a bug arose, and people exploited it, devs found out, immediately shut down the servers, fixed it, did a rollback, affecting all the inocent players, and those who benefitted from the exploit got banned. Thats the way to deal with an exploit, not leave it in place for a year!
Super_nice_jedi wrote:
NO OTHER profession allows you to keep ANY of its skills once you drop the profession.
NO OTHER profession allows you to gain XP whilst logged off.
How's that connected? Are you saying that because you can get XP for Merchantwhile offline, you should be able to keep the skills when you surrender it?
That doesn't make any sense.