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Thread: Ceterum Censeo .... Exploit Hotfixed ! YEAH ! (I wont bug you anymore :-)
Erillion wrote:
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I am a WS on Eclipse. I agree with poster, this issue needs to be fixed yesterday. It's frustrating losing business because you refuse to sell exploited weapons
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Amen to that. But its hard to prove that it was sliced using an exploit, unless the WS/Smuggler is stupid enough to use PU sliced and unsliced weapons from the same factory run on the same vendor so the percentage increase over the base weapon can be calculated. Or uses powerups that result in a higher rating than the 35 % maximum slice increase over the best theoretically possible weapon (which is even harder to proof, but has happened on Flurry at least). Also 1000 identical 35 % sliced weapons might give you a hint :-)
I think the HONEST Weaponsmiths use EVEN more cash to this exploit than smugglers. You might repost this issue on the WS board and keep bumping it till the exploit is fixed.
Once again ... 5 stars to anyone bumping this thread. (cant 5 star Jibbrish and Phoenix for reasons unknown - will try another day).
Have fun
Novarider
Ceterum censeo PU slicing delendam esse
Message Edited by Erillion on 09-17-2004 08:29 AM
The Problem is even ones that ahve have had nothing happen to them. We have a Master Smuggler/Weaponsmith on our server that was stupid enough to put from the same crate on his server with and w/o PU slices. he was called on it. and we are not talking like 20-30 rilfes. we are talking in the hundreds. And what happened to him? Nothing, not a damn thing. yet i fear If i was even to PU slice my own gun that I woudl try to sign on the next day with a "Ban".
Its also frustrating loosing all these contracts.
Council Member of the SHJOCSRMelissaL: kgm You need to do both
offem wrote:
Ok, first things first, u all should not be so hostile to questions on this forum or take anything so personally. I dont care what the csr's say about this being an exploit because they have done nothing about it so i would guess that they may say things to discurage people from doing it but they them see it as only a minor issue that will most likely be handled if they ever do a revamp. If it was something as simple as a minor patch which i know it is only a few dozen lines of code it would have been done a long time ago but it wasnt, so they need to just come out and say that this is no longer an exploit but it is apart of the game now or say it will be handled with smuggler revamp which will never happen as well.
Please lighten up on this subject i still dont see how pupslicing negatively affects the gaming experience and if it does well then you should still lighten up, this is only a video game not RL.
I don't want to play with cheaters. There is no grey area here so stop looking for it. If you cheat, it's still wrong regardless of the fact that you were caught or not and regardless of the fact that it was easy for you to do so.
Would you be so complacent if there was a exploit that put your character at a disadvantage? How on earth can an exploit that givesan advantage be any different?
There is a simple example I used before and I'll use it again here. Lets play a game of chess offem, I get to cheat, you don't. How much fun do you think would you have if my first move is always queen takes king? There is nothing physically stopping me from moving my queen from taking the king and nothing has been added to the game in 100's of years to prevent me from doing so. It must be okay for me to do it then.
Now what do you do? Do you get me to stop cheating so the game becomes a fair challenge again or do you start cheating and make the game pointless?