Hi,
stopped reading at page #16. What a mess again!
(Plz excuse if you wrote later on, maybe I'll read later. Or drop me a line with a link to your post)
This game has been about exploiting bugs from the very beginning. I came quite late (I'm a CND baby).
- But even I have seen ppl sitting in lava pools, auto-FAPping for days, getting insane Anatomy and First Aid - invaluable skills.
- And even I have seen ppl hiding in trees, surrounded by wast amounts of drones, auto-FAPping for days, getting insane Dodge, Anatomy and First Aid - invaluable skills.
- I have seen ppl abusing poor path-finding algorithms of huge, dangerous mobs to kill them in a "stucked" mode without any danger. And it wasn't by far not only Spiders ...
Quite some of the ppl I have seen in the past times, doing such, are still active. They are what we consider as "Ubers" now. For sure, I cannot say that all "Ubers" are exploiters - I have just seen personally not this many of them doing so. A lot of area's was locked to me then, since I was a real nOOb these times ...
And I have to admit, I exploited, too.
Zychion, Bridge. We used to lure young Atrox below the bridge from quite far away (in team-work with multiple deaths), then sweated them dry from above, in safety. Then lured them to the turret, again in team-work with multiple deaths. We got sh*tloads of skills in "Having fun" and "Socialization", and quite few in "Sweat Gathering" - we met the sweat cap quite fast anyway. Even the sweat gain was, seen for the time spent, lower then any nOOb could get at Nea's these days.
For sure half of EF damned it, and it was removed. Yes, I'm an evil exploiter, too, it seems. Exploited the game to have fun. Too bad I'm not good in exploiting. Killed an Atrox Old once, that chased me all over the map, finally got stuck behind a tree, with unamped Opalo ages ago. Got nice loot even. Thought about, and decided not to do again. Well, it's lame, right? Some ppl, like me, are just too stupid to survive in todays world, it seems.
But what will happen now? Will the ones exploiting the poorly done RT missions will get stripped of their skills? Will they get banned, maybe even forever?
Let's have a look at the past - what happened in such cases? Yep, nothing. If it is an exploit worth actually using, and actually making a profit possible, there'll be few able to utilize it. And these few will be people that either are EU PR partners, or people that MA don't want to hurt - the big depositors.
Nothing will happen. Again. In the worst case those avatars will have to change their name, and their appearance. We know the procedure.
Have fun!