Musician Archive
Thread: 2 Exploit Questions for New Jedi...
homebreu wrote:
1.) I read in a post that you think that it may be an exploit to do the 3 minute 10 second buff. Can you please find out if it is and let us all know?
This is how I doall of mine, and I am not an exploiter, so I do not want to be doing something that could inadvertantly get me into trouble with the devs.
I would say that this is not yet an exploit though it may be deemed one in the future.
IMHO
2.) Is it wrong or an exploit to give people the "Stacked" buff?
In case you do not know what this is, it is when you give someone a buff, have them activate it as soon as you are done, then have them start listening again to give them another buff. Then when they get to where they are going, and after the first buff runs out, they just type /stoplisten again and the 2nd buff kicks in for them.
does this work?
I would think that when the person leaves you and goes out of range then the game automatically stops them from listening which attempts to confer the second buff but since there is already one (of equal or greater value)it just ignores it... am I missing something?
good question though
If you could find out wether or not these are considered exploitsfor us, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time New Jedi.
Hmmm. Makes sense I guess. I am now sure if all your facts are correct, but I do know that I always stop playing and do a dump before the person does the stoplisten command.
I am going to test the crud out of this today to find out the do's and don't's.
Hi Homebreu,
As I posted in your other thread, I've asked the devs countless times about the speed-buffs. I asked most recently yesterday -- and another Correspondent followed up in the same thread. No reply yet. If it's an exploit, the devs certainly are being slow about fixing it.
I heard about the "stacked" buff for the first time just a couple of weeks ago, and I was unable to reproduce it myself; I probably did something wrong. But if you guys are certain it can be done, I will ask the devs whether this one is an exploit. My guess is that it is. I haven't asked the devs about this one before, so I don't know if they know about it. Off todescribe it to themnow.
I'd think the second one just about has to be an exploit. It just isn't something that was meant to be done. It is nice though as you can give buffs at an equal duration as docs.
As for buffing in 4 minutes, that could hardly be called an exploit. I doubteveryone wants to be forced to wait 8 minutes for an okay buff, then wait another 8 minutes for the next buff. I myself do not like to do the ultra-speed buff as it is not inline with either proffesions in terms of an actual performance. I will continue to buff in 4 minutes, possibly less with more testing.
a 30sec buff seems inline with docs having a 15 sec interval between their buffs.....we buff 2 stats in 30 secs....docs can buff 2 stats in 30secs
dont see anything wrong with that.......
as for stacking, well we all know what that is
But Doctors aren't performers. They inject people with stims; we perform music and dance. Their stims cost money or resources; our songs are costless to us. The analogy to Doctors isn't a perfect one.
Don't get me wrong, I personally wouldn't mind having a 30-second buff. But I see a difference between injecting someone and playing a song for them. A top-forty song takes a couple of minutes to play on the radio. An injection takes seconds.