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- Kayla Mystique Sinclair
It's no shock that this game has bugs. Sadly when you report bugs they do not get fixed most of the time (see yog case which was reported 2 years before it was fixed). Only revealing the bug on forums and the ensuing community backlash got the bug fixed (almost immediately). So I am going to bring to light 2 well known exploits in PVP (one is very well known and one is more recently known at least to myself). My hope is that MA will fix them sooner rather than later.
When in Lootable PVP -
Exploit #1 - If you take more than 50% damage from either mobs or yourself, you cannot be looted. You are 100% safe from being looted. The only way to lose loot is for a pker to run up, heal you, and then shoot you. This is not very practical since it takes a long time to run up to someone heal them and then shoot, not likely to happen before they can TP away or die to a mob. It is exploited by many many many people in both Aegis and Akmuul PVP on Calypso. You can blow yourself up with a rocket and even if someone gets the finishing kill on you, your loot is safe as long as you did more than half of your HP dmg. Have seen this happen multiple times with multiple people and have taken video recordings of it and submitted to MA without any action.
Exploit #2 - This one was brought to light to me by someone because it was being used against me by someone who was recently unbanned from being banned for a year for cheating in mayhem (shocker, I know right?). If you create a sticky note, and paste Avatar Link into it, when you are in radar disabled PVP (Aegis) you can see different menu options if someone is on your radar vs not (Team Invite pops up as an option if someone is not on your FL). That means that you can be running around in disabled radar zone, spamming right click on a name link until you see "Team Invite" and then you will know they are within 200m. This is not nearly as egregious as the "Follow" function that was a bug many years ago, but same concept. It really kind of destroys the ability to hide and wait for prey when they can do this all day long and know you are coming.
I don't know how these can be fixed and I'm not a developer. But, I do know that these are two bugs that are not intended to be "features" of the game (at least as far as I can tell). I wish MA would fix them as I know they've been reported multiple times to support especially the first one, but maybe bringing some attention on the forum will help to nudge them in the right direction. If I am wrong and these ARE intended to be features could I please get a MindArk rep to confirm that so I can start mining nonstop safely with a mob train on me to keep me below 50% HP?
I won't name names but thanks to those who have reported these bugs and/or brought them to light because as long as they remain unfixed you have to know what you are up against in the zone.
-Mystique, your friendly neighborhood pk-er
When in Lootable PVP -
Exploit #1 - If you take more than 50% damage from either mobs or yourself, you cannot be looted. You are 100% safe from being looted. The only way to lose loot is for a pker to run up, heal you, and then shoot you. This is not very practical since it takes a long time to run up to someone heal them and then shoot, not likely to happen before they can TP away or die to a mob. It is exploited by many many many people in both Aegis and Akmuul PVP on Calypso. You can blow yourself up with a rocket and even if someone gets the finishing kill on you, your loot is safe as long as you did more than half of your HP dmg. Have seen this happen multiple times with multiple people and have taken video recordings of it and submitted to MA without any action.
Exploit #2 - This one was brought to light to me by someone because it was being used against me by someone who was recently unbanned from being banned for a year for cheating in mayhem (shocker, I know right?). If you create a sticky note, and paste Avatar Link into it, when you are in radar disabled PVP (Aegis) you can see different menu options if someone is on your radar vs not (Team Invite pops up as an option if someone is not on your FL). That means that you can be running around in disabled radar zone, spamming right click on a name link until you see "Team Invite" and then you will know they are within 200m. This is not nearly as egregious as the "Follow" function that was a bug many years ago, but same concept. It really kind of destroys the ability to hide and wait for prey when they can do this all day long and know you are coming.
I don't know how these can be fixed and I'm not a developer. But, I do know that these are two bugs that are not intended to be "features" of the game (at least as far as I can tell). I wish MA would fix them as I know they've been reported multiple times to support especially the first one, but maybe bringing some attention on the forum will help to nudge them in the right direction. If I am wrong and these ARE intended to be features could I please get a MindArk rep to confirm that so I can start mining nonstop safely with a mob train on me to keep me below 50% HP?
I won't name names but thanks to those who have reported these bugs and/or brought them to light because as long as they remain unfixed you have to know what you are up against in the zone.
-Mystique, your friendly neighborhood pk-er