To whom it may concern,
I don't come to this forum very often. What with 7 or so and soon to be more official and unoffical forums on the way covering our universe, this place doesn't have the same appeal it once did when it had a central focus for Project Entropia. And tbh, I'm actually somewhat busy playing the game. Imagine that.
I would simply like to point out as one of the supposed "exploiters" a few simple facts.
(If anybody is actually interested in those, that is.)
One, last weekend I went to Rocktropia immediately upon understanding that there were both a great number of missions that rewarded with skills and various attributes and that old school crafted scanners were looting. (I looted 17 in case anyone is keeping score.) I'm a high engager of the mission system, having finished 137 Calypso-based missions and now all but two at Rocktropia. I was not told of a bug or the existence of any exploit by anyone I knew. I simply went to check the place out. Missions are about the only way I know of as a CND baby where a player like me can attempt to even the score against fap skillers and other former wholes that existed in PE's skilling history. I've worked hard for and am extremely proud of my attributes, including both a soon to be 20 stamina and a naturally acquired 111 agility. I would never intentionally break EULA or exploit anything, because risking my account over such nonsense is well, nonsensical.
Two, as someone that stumbled upon the bug without any former knowledge or prodding by any friend or society mate, I wasn't sure in the slightest what was actually going on until about two days in. The missions system that exists there is triggered by your avatar crossing over a coordinate similar to a scouting mission on Calypso's iron missions. And several activities are in fact triggered on the same spot. I was not aware until I had completed one of the Police Calls about 3 times that I was actually doing a mission over and over. Most of the missions are very similar. Kill 20 Soulsearchers. Kill 60 Harlem Hustlers. Kill 40 Mulholland Boys. Etc, etc. Furthermore, some of the missions from various mission chains are exactly alike, thus adding to the general confusion. If you have ever watched the T.V. show Cops, you will understand that Police work is often boring and repetitive. The Police Scanner missions seemed intentional and somewhat realistic, if based on an IRL context.
This bug was incredibly unlike any that has ever existed. You had to actually attempt to dupe and item to dupe an item. You had to intentionally bid 101 times on auction to bug the auction. You had to actually set your avatar up in a pack of mobs and use an autoclicker to fap skill. This "exploit" was nothing like that. To participate in it, you didn't even have to know it existed. You needed only to go to Rocktropia to do missions last weekend to participate in some sort of "exploit."
Three, I am a guy who is horribly addicted to my numbers going up. If the game tells me its giving me a mission and that I need to go kill 20-60 mobs or mine 2 PED of Enmatter to gain some reward, I'm going to do it. If it does so itself again and again, I'm probably going to continue to accomplish those said tasks. Blame my horribly addicted personality or the years spent playing Grand Theft Auto i dunno. Hi, my name is Darth Skippie Boobie, and I'm a Missionoholic. Giving out Stamina for killing 20 noob mobs is probably not the best balancing decision I've ever seen employed inside EU, but for a mission minded player it tasted like crack rock.
Four, at no time did i foster or witness any conversation on my society chat or in any PM where myself or any other society mate of mine intentionally encouraged anyone to exploit a bug. There was a brief exchange on society chat the morning of the fix, when yet another society member stumbled upon the bug entirely on her own and in a quite confused fashion explained to the society that she thinks she might have done a mission again. Out of 41 members, about 7 or so were on Rocktropia at the time of the bugged missions. All of these people have engaged the mission system in a huge way in the past and were simply doing the new missions. I can guarantee you if the society of exploiters were intentionally exploiting the mission bugs, the entire society would have been online and doing those missions. We're a big society. Saying that 7 of us were at Rocktropia for any particular reason is like saying "Hey, look at that. Stormer is killing Aurli."
Five, not only am I fine with the fact that Mindark has now fixed the attribute gains, I both expected it and went out of my way to make sure when agility and stamina were corrected but strength was not to report the oversight. Strength was corrected today and to my knowledge all attributes should now be adjusted to reflect what people doing missions at Rocktropia can receive. Furthering rumor here on the forums that something has been done otherwise is both reckless and irresponsible.
Entropia is a weird place sometimes. There's a ton of jealousy where real money is concerned. And is often the case, stones are thrown in glass houses. But before everyone judges the hundreds of avatars that did missions at Rocktropia last week and summarily paint them as exploiters and call for their heads. Put down the tin foil hats for a moment and review who is at fault for the problem. Should you feel so inclined to go on a witch hunt, perhaps you should first find a witch.
I find it funny that I've not seen one single complaint that the Forum Troll mission completed in merely 2 mobs rather than the 30 that were supposed to be killed. Every single person that did that mission last weekend "exploited a bug". Where are the calls for harsh punishment for that? Is it just me or am I the only person bothered by the fact that finding Blues Rock completes the Alternative Rock mission? Or that Reggae is infact not spelled Reggea? I did however get back my massive Noob Club stash today and for that I am eternally thankful. Neverdie should get his house in order. Mindark should not allow any content to be implemented until it is properly tested and/or run through a Microsoft Word spell checker at the very least. Hopefully this wretched implementation will serve as an example of what we should not see in the future when Planet Partners implement additional content.
Darth Skippie Boobie
