Rifleman Archive
Thread: Poll Question?? Should someone be banned for knowingly using an Exploit to bennefit in the game??
Message Edited by T-Bone78 on 02-19-2004 02:39 PM
I think you misunderstood the question. He/She is asking if using a bannable exploit is any greater of an offense than benefiting from someone else's use of a bannable exploit. Not should someone be banned for bike regenin
I am not too sure how you could know about an exploit, not do it yourself, but still benefit from it. So I do not know exaclty how to respond to that. The only types of things I can think of that would qualify would be if you knew someone was double slicing weapons and you gave them a weapon to "slice" knowing and expecting thatthey would do the double slice or if someone gave you freecredits that you knew were duped, and you took them anyway. In either of those types of cases,I would agree that both parties should be penalized and banned if banning is appropriate, but onlyif you could prove that the person receiving the benefit knew beforehand what was happening or that, after they found out, they did nothing about it (such as give up an amount of cash equal to the received duped credits).
On the other hand, I would be concerned about how"exploit" is defined.Intentionally duplicating credits or that type of thing is an obvious exploit that is nothing more than cheating. On the other hand, I have heard the way bleeds worked before the last patch called an exploit because people could bleed a creature, kite it on a vehicle, then get off when it was down to one point of damage on the bleeding pool, and thenkill it with one shot. That is not an exploit. It may have been a way of killing creatures that was far easier than they intended, but Ihave problems with callinganobvious and simple use of the mechancis and rules of the game like thatan "exploit." I do not care that they fixed it if they felt it unbalanced the game (although, they have made bleeds pretty much a useless skill because of the amount they nerfed it), but I object to something so obvious being called an exploit...poor planning, maybe...but not an exploit.
So I would have a problem with someone being banned or penalized because something of this nature, but intentionally using a bug in the mechanics to duplicate credits or to increase the power of a weapon beyond its intended limits, yeah, that is an exploit. And if someone intentionally benefits from it even though they did not use the exploitthemselves, they should be penalized.
in fact i am taking an even harder stance against exploiting. when i see people selling pets 1(0) wont grow anymore in CL and sporting 10k+ hams Light armour and 60% kinetic they are getting reported for exploiting.
im sick of the friggen cheating.
so yes they should be dragged through the **edit** exam of a csr investigation. i know what that is from watching one of our other accounts being drug through such an investigation.
Ok one would have to have been blind to not know you were talking about the DXR6 issue. In that case yes they are exploiting and yes should be banned. Plus they were stupid enough to post it on SOE's official boards where the Devs come. Sure they aren't in every forum, but that is still idiotic.
I totally agree with Barb, the WS would have to be completely oblivious of life not to know that was an exploit, so he was exploiting also.
So I would vote Ban.
Message Edited by beamstalk on 02-20-2004 10:35 AM