Its really sad to see the state of the game these days. Funcom is very aware of many exploits but choose to do nothing about it. A lot of my friends play EQ and I've spoken with them at great length about how Verant deals with exploits, as soon as one is found the servers are shut down and its dealt immediately. I saw someone using an exploit the other day and reported it and got the jerk treatment from a GM like its no big deal. Its only on the second petition that a different GM responded that the dev team was aware of this and was looking into the matter. Well that was over a week ago and nothing has been done so I feel compelled to post about it here. Last week I was in PM camping claws for Nullity like many sucker NT's out there when I noticed that there was already a level 191 NT there with a level 15 NT. I assumed that this NT was trying to help the lowbie get a head start and get Nullity right away. This 191 NT was actually very nice and we were alternating spawns. After about an hour or so I noticed that this level 15 NT was now level 47 without firing a shot. The only thing that I could deduce was that somehow the 2 were teamed and although its SUPPOSED to be impossible for the lowbie to gain XP from this 191 player that I can hardly team with at 143. I immediately petitioned and recieved a tell from Snuvlur a GM. He was very nonchalant about the whole matter and said that even though technically I was right and that it is AGAINST the teaming rules for this to be possible that there are ways around this and as of right now the dev team doenst consider this to be an exploit.
To say I was shocked is a severe understatement of my reaction. That was my last interaction with that GM. Getting really pissed off I logged off. Later that evening I petitioned again determined to get some satisfaction. I spoke to a diff GM this time, who actually had the courtesy to appear in person to talk to me. He seemed at least interested in what I had to say and that my information would be passed on to the dev team and that they were closely looking into this matter.
That at least made me feel a little bit better. But still nothing has been done. How is this fair? If you dont consider this to be cheating Funcom then why dont you just tell us all how to get powerlevelled by someone 180+ above us. To make level 100 in a few hours! What suckers we all are for putting countless hours into levelling our chars. What a waste! This pisses me off to no end and I am cancelling my account. I advise you all to do the same unless you are among the cheaters because they have more influence in this game than do all the rest of us noncheaters combined.
I didnt include the names of the people in this post(except the GM who was a jerk to me) because I dont want to bash anyones reputation. Lets just say this particular NT is part of a large well known Tarasque camping bunch (not Storm) and I'll leave it at that. When will this cheating come to an end?
