Re: Should HC get a reset in Swamp? Time to vote!
4 Exploitation of bugs.
Sorry to end on a negative, but exploits have had more than a small part in the imbalance.
Here's the list of proven exploits, though there are more:
1. Duplicate items. Imbalance was achieved in food by some people filling multiple forts with duplicated farming seeds. This contributed to the lock down. Leaving the worse exploters just encourages more exploits.
2. Raider missions were broke. some players gained hundreds of millions of xp at this time. A partial reckoning was handed out to reduce the levels gained by the worst 3 offenders. Perhaps a discouragement, perhaps not.
3. When forts were reset some people gained vast lumps of XP, some by exploiting the various fort bugs. Punishments yet to be announced.
4. Raider missions are again bugged. No surprise here, the same exploits occurred to gain more dodgy levels as quick as possible. Missions shut down and no annou
ncement yet of the reckoning.
5. Some folks still use kill utilities, some of whom are actually decent at missions, but prefer to cheat. No action taken, but the logs are there. It's also possible to code in any disconnection with less than 50% health is a death.
Aprone, you introduced pay to play for a reason, I would like to suggest you take a view of the worst offenders on each of the above and exercise your right to remove the cheats, perhaps the worst 3 will do. Taking no action against multiple offenders will encourage future bug exploitation.
If we are facing a reset for the want of a level playing field, then let's have a level playing field. You can't expect new players to want to compete in a game that has such a history of exploits. I suggest only the exploiters will disagree.
How will I vote: honestly undecided at the moment. Personally I would rather not lose 1700 levels, but I am happy if it is good for the game. I would view a reset as a new challenge, but I guess we will lose some players, and our player base is a very important issue.
So, vote for a reset? Perhaps and perhaps some other changes too. Not an easy choice in my book. Whatever you feel is good for the future of the game. End of long post.
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