I don't actively play at the moment, but how has this affected the economy generally and bot wise?
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If FC officially did some kind of cheap bot giveaway then I would be pretty happy. I see nothing wrong with more bots in the system and lower prices provided they're legit. I'd also have (perhaps naively) assumed that such an official FC action would have been thought through beforehand and the potential changes to the game's economy, average character power level and such would have been considered. When someone does it illegitimately (cheating), with no careful consideration from internal FC sources, then it's a crappy disrespectful soiling of the game's environment with no thought for the aftermath.
Also, what Awikun said about it hitting the fan. Turn the fan off first of all. Turn it off the moment you've identified that something unpleasent is hitting it. FC cannot claim they didn't know in time. They really cannot.
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Spidershiva :: 165/23/42 kite? eh?
Silentmotion : 150/20/42 tankthink
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Two ways to go here as I see it if they are not going to rollback (and it's too late for that now).
- Remove all of the duped bots from the game. This may or may not be possible, plus you'd have to refund money, figure out which bots have already been made into armor, etc etc.
- Just raise bot droprates to 100%. Now that there's this many additional bots in the system, it doesn't make sense to give an advantage to those who bought duped bots vs those who did not. If they are going to be this common for some, make them this common for all. Maybe even add a "Shady Bot Vendor" who will trade bots of one type for equal QL bots of another for those who have poor luck with general types.
Don't you just hate this kind of ppl
http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/w...rouscranus.htm
Most of ppl and the one who did this is banned.
So stop crying of everything and just let them do theyr work, you cry baby penguin.
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Wait, what?
There were ubercheap AI leadbots on the GMI?!? And I wasn't there to take advantage of it?
Edis - Level 220 AI29 - Atrox, Keeper.
Azazel0 - Level 220 AI17 - Solitus, Adventurer.
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So the official line from FC (on Reddit, not even bothered to post in their own forums): https://www.reddit.com/r/anarchyonli...ver_roll_back/
"We have taken appropriate actions on the involved parties."
Did the bots get removed?
Ophiuchus : 220/30/80 HAHA etc
Nahuatl :: 220/30/80 Melee 4lyfe
Khurkh :: 220/30/80 healtankpew
Transcendence
Msanthropic : 210/26/60 nanostab
Spidershiva :: 165/23/42 kite? eh?
Silentmotion : 150/20/42 tankthink
The Union
I guess the answer to that is no. So there we have it, the official FC stance on the matter. Cheaters prosper.
Ophiuchus : 220/30/80 HAHA etc
Nahuatl :: 220/30/80 Melee 4lyfe
Khurkh :: 220/30/80 healtankpew
Transcendence
Msanthropic : 210/26/60 nanostab
Spidershiva :: 165/23/42 kite? eh?
Silentmotion : 150/20/42 tankthink
The Union
That's messed up. Not even an official word from the Game Director and the bots weren't removed.
Why do you need one? There are no surprises here. The negative effects of the 'bots are outweighed by the negative effects a rollback would have caused. They had one shot at this: within the first few hours the thing happened. And it happened late night US time, and very early morning Europe time. Definitely outside of work hours. Can't really blame FC for not reacting right away. And after that it was too late.
So be realistic, stop being butthurt. This issue does not (or at least should not) devalue your gaming experience. I remember buying my RBP for 2 billion credz. Now it goes for 400m. Got a good number of combined stuff myself. Do I care? No. The value of stuff changes over time, this was due to an unfortunate event, but it is similar to FC increasing droprates (sparkling scimitar of spetses is looking at you kid) or the item being devalued by new content (dreadloch shark). Get over it, you will feel better
There are 3 main problems here:
1. Technical issues behind - how could FC dealt with that? Rollback was good option but only up to about 24 hours from the time exploit happensed. And another question: was the "hole in security of GMI" fixed or can we expect simmilar exploit anytime soon ....
2. What was really done by FC? ... Were there any bans? Viralbots deleted? Any other actions taken???
3. Public re4lation part: - What was official position of FC? Do we admit "**** happened" and say sorry ??? Are we going to do anything about it now? or in future? ANY KIND OF INFORMATION IS BETTER THAN NOTHING...
I love the "I fail" buttons ... but this time is ******* who :"wins in I fail category"...
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