Feldon As we have reported, players have been abusing an exploit which allowed them to login to Battlegrounds and consume/transmute/craft items and then get those items back upon being returned to their home servers. SOE have stepped up and shown they take this sort of thing seriously with the following announcement from Brenlo:
This weekend an exploit was found on the Battlegrounds server which allowed players to transmute items, and have those items returned when leaving the Battlegrounds. This occured due to a change we made in the code to speed up the return process. While we understand that this was a bug of our creation, some players chose to take advantage of it, knowing it was not meant to work in that fashion.
Many players took advantage of the bug, to varying degrees. Some of our community however went to great lengths to abuse the bug. For those accounts that abused this obvious bug, we have taken action. Some have been removed from the game altogether, while others are losing all of the items on their characters. All will face at least some time removed from the game as we sort through the various logs and track down their ill-gained platinum and items.
While we hate to remove anyone from our community, our family, there are times that for the good of the servers, the in-game economy and the community we do find ourselves forced to take action. Unfortunately, this was one such occasion.
Thanks all for being a part of Norrath.
This action is not just limited to Transmuters:
We tracked spells, transmutations, abuse of Mender Bots, etc. We are taking action against all who reached a specific threshhold of abuse.
The most egregious offenders, who I have learned made thousands of plat off of this exploit, will find themselves suspended from the game for several days or possibly a longer ban.
like someone said in ww coercer chan last night, we wonder how many guilds arent able to raid cause of suspensions… lulz
If they exploited this to make 1000’s of plats then, imho, they deserve a lengthy ban. A few days will not cut it. Ban them for a month!
However, the removal of all their gear is a great idea! That will teach them to cheat.
Our GL discovered the transmuter bug by accident, then did it one more time to verify it worked, and promptly reported it (and stopped doing it).
His fate is currently unknown, but his main is not allowed to login. No word yet on whether they’re stripping his gear or what.
But seriously… discovering a bug, verifying it, reporting it, and never using it again gets you suspended and possibly stripped? Also, he hasn’t sold a single transmuter-related item since the expansion came out, so he didn’t benefit in any way from this except for 2 infusions or manas (big deal).
Thousands of plat = several days ? Wow … that’s pretty harsh. I guess they will stop exploiting such things now that SoE is showing that they are really getting serious.
This is what I had hoped to see but maybe not as heavy a hammer as is deserved.
If you are caught cheating you should be banned. That way, the next time a exploit shows up only the truly stupid wil attempt to get away with using it.
It is like people being caught speeding on the freeway and saying afterwards that it was okay because if they didn’t want people to go so fast they would put speedbumps on the road.
I don’t want to play a game full of speedbumps.
Good to see SOE taking it seriously
Ban them they knew it was wrong and the person saying that 1 guy only made 2 trans mutes wont be banned it will be the people who exploited it to the max.On everquest we are mainly adults and play for fun and enjoyment people of this nature should be removed it shows the core of the morals and attitudes send them to wow.