Smuggler Archive
Thread: So, is 'guarantee' the new key word for 'power-up slice my weapon'?
me: "Yep, between an 11% and 35% improvement... What I improve is random"
sg: "My buddy wants a gun sliced but he wants to be guarnteed a better gun when your done"
me: "It will be better, how much I can't say"
SBRD0C wrote:
Seems kinda wierd... All this doubletalk and caution. Its almost what Smuggler RP should be... Except that it should be the smuggler trying to cover himself more than the customer.. and IT SHOULDN'T BE BECAUSE OF AN EXPLOIT!
Someone needs to fix this darn exploit, and maybe someday this kind of cool RPish Interaction will happen with stuff thats SUPPOSED to be part of the game.
lol /totalagreement
Dude: Hey can you slice something for me?
Smuggler: I have no clue what you mean.
Dude: You have Master Smuggler over your head, what are you talking about?
Smuggler: I'm telling you I don't know what your talking about. Only thing I can do is slight "repairs".
Dude: Ahh I get ya.
Smuggler: Get my drift.
Dude: Yeah, can you get me a 30%+ Damage slice too?
Smuggler: *head explodes*
hrmpf2 wrote:
Well, you could give him the bennefit of the doubt. I've (and I'm sure most smugglers have) had a few people asking the usual "what will a slice do" and "will it break my XYZ", to those I've offer guarantees I can only improve their gear, and I'll never break, degrade, steal or make it blow up and kill them later. So, this means as a smuggler slicing I do put up such a guarentee, maybe that was what he meant?
I did give him the benifit of the doubt by not reporting him. Some issue (RL or otherwise) may have come up that caused him to scoot. He may have been a pawn with someone sending tells as to what to ask and that may have been the reason for his slow responses. Then ran like hell once it was made known to him that what he was being coached to ask for was an exploit and could get him banned.
He could have also found another smuggler who was willing to do something 'special' for him and there was no need to continue with me. As we've seen, there are smugglers willing to do so.
There is one bit of information that I forgot to mention. I sent a tell much later asking directly if he wanted a power-up slice (then sent in a CSR ticket stating that I had no intention of doing so). No reply. He wasn't AFK, no 'Huh? what's that?' or 'I'm sorry, that is an exploit... '.
In the end though, my gut feeling is that he was asking me to exploit. I really hope I'm wrong though.
Most players do not ever read or post on these boards, and many really don’t know how slicing (or other game mechanics) work. I’ve had lots of conversations with people like that one, it just means they don’t know how the system works.
/boggle
Bohdi-Tzu wrote:
All I can say is….wow. Holy witch hunt, Batman. Some noob who doesn’t understand how slicing works asks you to slice his weapon, and you’re all ready to form a lynch mob and drop an “exploiter” label on him. Back away from the paranoia pipe, put down the noose, and go on about your business. How you can get that he wanted you to use an exploit for him from what you posted is beyond me.
Most players do not ever read or post on these boards, and many really don’t know how slicing (or other game mechanics) work. I’ve had lots of conversations with people like that one, it just means they don’t know how the system works.
/boggle
/agree
I've had lots of people ask me if I could guarantee the slice. Alot of times, they just want to make sure you're not going to failthe slice.
Now, though, the only time I ever do any public slicing is while I'm standing in line for buffs at the C-net starport...depending on the length of the line. If I stroll up and there's 10-15 people in front of me, I'll display my tag and see what happens. I very rarely get asked, and when I do, I often get turned down because of my price (10k per slice)...but almost always, if they do decide it's worth 10k creds for me to slice their stuff, the next question I get is, "Can you guarantee success?". Asking for a guarantee isn't asking for an exploit.
And, as far as him ignoring the inquiry about wanting a P-up slice, he could have been busy doing something else...like killing Jantas or Mokks, or Rancors or Baz, or whatever his personal cred / XP collecting target of the day was...and he just totally missed your /tell. If I'm in the middle of killing something, I'm not going to stop to answer some random /tell...(though I do have a funny story that happened while I was actually killing Jantas the other night)...so I doubt he would either.
DrevenStrobe wrote:
Bohdi-Tzu wrote:
All I can say is….wow. Holy witch hunt, Batman. Some noob who doesn’t understand how slicing works asks you to slice his weapon, and you’re all ready to form a lynch mob and drop an “exploiter” label on him. Back away from the paranoia pipe, put down the noose, and go on about your business. How you can get that he wanted you to use an exploit for him from what you posted is beyond me.
Most players do not ever read or post on these boards, and many really don’t know how slicing (or other game mechanics) work. I’ve had lots of conversations with people like that one, it just means they don’t know how the system works.
/boggle
/agree
I've had lots of people ask me if I could guarantee the slice. Alot of times, they just want to make sure you're not going to failthe slice.
Now, though, the only time I ever do any public slicing is while I'm standing in line for buffs at the C-net starport...depending on the length of the line. If I stroll up and there's 10-15 people in front of me, I'll display my tag and see what happens. I very rarely get asked, and when I do, I often get turned down because of my price (10k per slice)...but almost always, if they do decide it's worth 10k creds for me to slice their stuff, the next question I get is, "Can you guarantee success?". Asking for a guarantee isn't asking for an exploit.
And, as far as him ignoring the inquiry about wanting a P-up slice, he could have been busy doing something else...like killing Jantas or Mokks, or Rancors or Baz, or whatever his personal cred / XP collecting target of the day was...and he just totally missed your /tell. If I'm in the middle of killing something, I'm not going to stop to answer some random /tell...(though I do have a funny story that happened while I was actually killing Jantas the other night)...so I doubt he would either.
