Jan 11, 2008, 05:09 PM // 17:09
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Jan 2007
Guild: [Leet]
Profession: R/
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Exploits encountered through the Years
Ok today's big news about the 117 being banned brings up some memories for me about other exploits we heard about over the years.
So I thought I'd see which ones we all remember and what action (if any) was taken in each case.
I vaguely remember a guild loosing its place in GvG because of an exploit.
There was the whole Sunspear/Lightbring points and afk farming and not killing monks so they rez mobs
The Shrines for afk farming had their NPC taken away so no blessings and the mobs were changed to only count as points for the first time you kill them, but no action was taken against users of the exploit.
Any others?
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Jan 11, 2008, 05:12 PM // 17:12
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#2
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Grotto Attendant
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: "Pre-nerf" is incorrect. It's pre-buff.
Guild: Requirement Begins With R [notQ]
Profession: Me/
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There was an exploit which gave reputation points for primary EotN quests that allowed people to get rank10 Delver in half an hour.
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Jan 11, 2008, 05:16 PM // 17:16
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Hell's Protector
Join Date: Oct 2005
Profession: R/Mo
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Duncan...nuff said.
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Jan 11, 2008, 05:19 PM // 17:19
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Belgium
Guild: none
Profession: N/E
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Duping
The series of ferries by using GH travel
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Jan 11, 2008, 05:22 PM // 17:22
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Jan 2007
Guild: [Leet]
Profession: R/
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I was curious about the duping - what happened - I think i read somewhere the items were deleted?
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Jan 11, 2008, 05:24 PM // 17:24
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#6
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Wilds Pathfinder
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Lulz. They weren't, which is why you can still see 2000+ armbrace bids. A few people got banned, but obviously not everyone involved.
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Jan 11, 2008, 05:27 PM // 17:27
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#7
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Forge Runner
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: US
Guild: Old Married Gamers {OMG}
Profession: W/
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well there was the hack/exploit what ever that a person could gain GM level status in the Game...and disconnect others etc..
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Jan 11, 2008, 05:30 PM // 17:30
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Jungle Guide
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Sitting in the guildhall, watching the wallows frolic.
Guild: Trinity of the ascended [SMS]+[Koss]+[TAM]=[ToA]
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chicken Ftw
Lulz. They weren't, which is why you can still see 2000+ armbrace bids. A few people got banned, but obviously not everyone involved.
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Looks like a nice chunk of them did this time..(Same 'guild', same 'players'.
/wave bye bye to those stacks of ill gotten gains cheaters!!
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Jan 11, 2008, 05:51 PM // 17:51
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Aug 2005
Guild: DVDF(Forums)
Profession: Me/N
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I think the first exploit I heard of was the one where you get get multiple 50K XP for killing the doppleganger
It was'nt really an exploit, but the bug I saw that was the most fun was the one in which henchies dropped gold when they died, and every monster was hostile to another. So all you needed to do was drag two mobs together, watch them fight and pick up the spoils.
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Jan 11, 2008, 05:56 PM // 17:56
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Forge Runner
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Slovenia
Guild: Scars Meadows [SMS]
Profession: Mo/
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Just a few that actually 'surfaced':
-map traveling anywhere on map
-storage in pre-searing
-disconnecting everyone in instance
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Jan 11, 2008, 06:06 PM // 18:06
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#11
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Ascalonian Squire
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What exactly is Anet's definition for an exploit? For example, if I'm exploring and I just happen to run into a pile of say, 100 ectos, and they obviously shouldn't be there, I can't really get in trouble for picking them up, since that's an error on Anet's part and I didn't actually do anything wrong. However, if I actually find a true hack, then that's obviously a bannable offense.
I don't know how those 117 people were able to find that secret room - did they physically hack something, or did they just run through an invisible wall or whatever?
I didn't really agree with the banning of a bunch of people who supposedly 'knowingly' bought duplicated items for cheap. I don't really see what they did wrong..they wanted an item, had no proof that it was duplicated, and bought it, with their earned money. One of the reasons that Microsoft doesn't automatically sue or kick off anyone with bootleg software, is because it's not always the consumer's fault.
Last edited by metallidevils; Jan 11, 2008 at 06:08 PM // 18:08..
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Jan 11, 2008, 06:17 PM // 18:17
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#12
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Jungle Guide
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Sitting in the guildhall, watching the wallows frolic.
Guild: Trinity of the ascended [SMS]+[Koss]+[TAM]=[ToA]
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metallidevils wrote:
What exactly is Anet's definition for an exploit? For example, if I'm exploring and I just happen to run into a pile of say, 100 ectos, and they obviously shouldn't be there, I can't really get in trouble for picking them up, since that's an error on Anet's part and I didn't actually do anything wrong. However, if I actually find a true hack, then that's obviously a bannable offense. /end
Um...wouldn't you know that if you've never seen that many drop in the game, In one spot...and the area you were in...DO NOT to touch it, and report it IMMEDIATLEY to ANet?(sp)
Surely you know prices..(even from the merch) of such a 'rare' crafting materials...(look on trading forums for high end sales) that ectoes are used as currency.
Not a valid argument .."I didn't know better" lordy lordy.
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Jan 11, 2008, 06:19 PM // 18:19
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#13
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Jun 2005
Profession: W/
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Trader reset when the territories' economies were synced.
A few people got stupidly rich. Anet never addressed it.
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Jan 11, 2008, 06:20 PM // 18:20
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#14
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Ascalonian Squire
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Trub
Um...wouldn't you know that if you've never seen that many drop in the game, In one spot...and the area you were in...DO NOT to touch it, and report it IMMEDIATLEY to ANet?(sp)
Surely you know prices..(even from the merch) of such a 'rare' crafting materials...(look on trading forums for high end sales) that ectoes are used as currency.
Not a valid argument .."I didn't know better" lordy lordy.
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But that doesn't make sense. How often do you hear of mislabeled clothing items, electronic items, etc, where the company honors the price that is on the item, because it's their mistake? And even if they don't honor the price, the person is never going to get in trouble for trying. It wouldn't be like I found the command to automatically spawn 100 ecto in front of me. But if it drops, why shouldn't I take it? Worst case is, Anet takes it away, or does a rollback or whatever. But I wouldn't have done anything illegal or bannable.
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Jan 11, 2008, 06:20 PM // 18:20
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#15
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Jan 2007
Guild: [Leet]
Profession: R/
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Quote:
Originally Posted by metallidevils
What exactly is Anet's definition for an exploit? For example, if I'm exploring and I just happen to run into a pile of say, 100 ectos, and they obviously shouldn't be there, I can't really get in trouble for picking them up, since that's an error on Anet's part and I didn't actually do anything wrong. However, if I actually find a true hack, then that's obviously a bannable offense.
I don't know how those 117 people were able to find that secret room - did they physically hack something, or did they just run through an invisible wall or whatever?
I didn't really agree with the banning of a bunch of people who supposedly 'knowingly' bought duplicated items for cheap. I don't really see what they did wrong..they wanted an item, had no proof that it was duplicated, and bought it, with their earned money. One of the reasons that Microsoft doesn't automatically sue or kick off anyone with bootleg software, is because it's not always the consumer's fault.
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I would think just going through and finding 100 ectos isn't an exploit but if you were to have to have a monk use charm animal on a certain tree then cast mending on it for the 100 ectos to appear - that is an exploit because there are a set number of perameters that you must go through that a person wouldn't do in normal game play
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Jan 11, 2008, 06:22 PM // 18:22
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#17
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Sunny FLA
Guild: Omega Knights
Profession: N/Me
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How about the afk lightbringer points farming exploit that allowed you to get LB points for killing rezzed monsters. Was so jealous when I saw r8 LB's in DoA a few days after it opened. By the time I found out about the exploit, it had been fixed.
Would I have taken advantage of it ... probably since they weren't hell bent on banning like they are now.
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Jan 11, 2008, 06:22 PM // 18:22
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#18
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Wilds Pathfinder
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lagg
Trader reset when the territories' economies were synced.
A few people got stupidly rich. Anet never addressed it.
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Oh man, I remember this. I returned to GW the day after it happened, only to find a few people I knew had gotten insanely rich the day before.
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Jan 11, 2008, 06:24 PM // 18:24
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#19
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Jungle Guide
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Sitting in the guildhall, watching the wallows frolic.
Guild: Trinity of the ascended [SMS]+[Koss]+[TAM]=[ToA]
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DO NOT to touch it, and report it IMMEDIATLEY to ANet?(sp)
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Jan 11, 2008, 06:28 PM // 18:28
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#20
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Jan 2007
Guild: [Leet]
Profession: R/
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Trub
Um...wouldn't you know that if you've never seen that many drop in the game, In one spot...and the area you were in...DO NOT to touch it, and report it IMMEDIATLEY to ANet?(sp)
Surely you know prices..(even from the merch) of such a 'rare' crafting materials...(look on trading forums for high end sales) that ectoes are used as currency.
Not a valid argument .."I didn't know better" lordy lordy.
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If this is true and what we should do - then anyone who found a cupcake yesterday is in big trouble
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