This definitely hits the economy as we speak for the players engaging in these activities. I saw people selling 3 perk BIS or close to BIS items for 6 gold coins on orofena today. I even managed to snag one of them. I assume these had to have come from the craft exploit
umm
the exploit required a player to have a trade skill (such as armoring) at 200-
AND have ~ 200k gold on top of that for the 3 major trophies-
AND have an extra 60k lying around to buy the mid trophies-
AND have a understanding of the crafting bonuses to use the right materials / food / town buffs etc-
AND have enough communication or game experience to know what BIS is for whatever they are making…
No one fitting this criteria did it on accident. Not a single person in the history of new world legit did the grind for 3 major trophies to then grind out the lower tiers again on accident.
These were resourced people who knew the game, and knew they were exploiting it.
IF they did it to report the bug and isolate the items, fine. But, if they didn’t report it with the item identification and location, did it more than once, put an item on the tp, traded an item, did a dungeon with an item, etc… then they knew what they were doing.
Imagine any game, be it chess / football / futbol / or anything else, surviving if the players KNEW the other team has been allowed to cheat in the past, and ARE STILL being allowed to cheat in the present. This is how you lose the players AND the fans.
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There are players that crafted with the bug but also players who received this items bis doing trade in ah for 1 gold. I say this, because i think u should track all the crafted items and remove them no only ban the players who crafted.
I’ve already seen a screenshot of a person who admits to exploiting this. (At least claims to have.) They were punished with a 7 hour ban.
So much for AGS responding swiftly and decisively.
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Funny how so many of you overlook the Bugs forum. Post the exploit, post the steps to repeat the exploit, post it in a public forum so everyone who doesn’t know about it can try it out.
kinda makes it hard to justify fresh start servers if they cant stop the exploits.
Accounts involved will receive the outcome of the severity of the TOS broken.
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perma ban the sh*t out of them
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I agree with you about all items being deleted. No question at all in my mind. I think the disciplinary penalty should be on a case-by-case basis, to some extent, if possible. For example, I think there’s a big difference between a player with no “disciplinary history” (in the game) who exploited this for say, 5 crafts, got guilty/uneasy/uncomfortable, and stopped vs. someone with a prior “disciplinary history” who did this for like, 400 crafts. But for the most part, I think most of the people that did this should probably get permabanned.
The main challenge is probably not so much how to deal with those who abused it primarily, but e.g. how to deal with someone who got given an end product, bought it, whatever.
As per usual, stuff spreads. The intent may not always be malicious in those who did not directly exploit themselves.
Thank you for responding. I know you probably feel as we do, and hope as we hope, that the higherups make the right decision here.
Telling who did this, filed a bug report, and isolated the item to give you internal data from those that made and used/sold/gifted items should be trivial.
I appreciate your attention and your efforts. Let’s all hope those with the decision power do what obviously should be done.
Again thanks for being on the front line taking the slings and arrows for those behind you.
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Lets just start with those that actually crafted the items. Losing a character with 200s in skills is not a small loss even for a troll company.
For the others, deleting the items and at BEST refunding the gold if bought on the tp is a start.
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Hoping for some swift justice! And considering everything above, looks like it’s coming
Oh certainly agreed, don’t get me wrong. But perma banning someone who bought a single item on AH though for example, would be a bit overkill. Hence why AGS in their statement likely used ‘or’, rather than ‘and’.
And what about the main culprit - you (as AGS, not you personally)? I mean it’s you who pushed unverified build onto production. Maybe accept punishment of perma ban for the cuirrent garbage vcrafting system and allow players to craft GS600 with all trophies as normal? Current crafting system sucks hard, this bug presented you with good opportunity to fix that permanently. Think about it.
Their statement appears to be about those who USED the exploit, not those that unknowingly benefitted.
I think we are on the same page. Just some of us haven’t gotten over KNOWING of people who exploited and got away with it.
Not in this instance
Crafters have 3 major trophys.
Instant intent is them purchasing, and putting in the 2 lower tiers, into each individual house.
If they have a way to check to see who has/had what trophys in their house, ban EVERYONE that put a minor, basic, and major trophy, of the same type, into each of their houses.
Perm ban them.
There is no reasonable explanation as to why they chose to have 3 tiers, of the same trophy, in each of their houses. ZERO reasoning.
If they try to claim testing it…well, curiousity killed the cat. Get these players off the game.
Take it down a notch. It is VERY unlikely this individual has control over the entire game code base. Shadow fox didn’t cause this.
Blame the company, not the individual the company put in front of you.