Duping

[t0lkien]

Originally Posted by Razdeline [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Same thing happened to me during live, I died during extreme lag, came back and had a full corpse. I went back out to the same camp I was at and saw my corpse on the ground. I wonder if a method of this is being used to dupe. Too bad I was only in my 30's and didn't have anything of value.

Do you remember the exact scenario in which this occurred for you? Maybe if we can create the same environment we can reproduce the issue on p99.

I was camping the Bard ammo slot gem in SSrae Temple, so was very solo (by "very" I mean there was no-one even close to being near me - it was pretty much a group-only area that Bards figured out how to solo). I died to a combination of lag/resists and the server came down before I respawned at my bind point. That had happened before, but it must have happened for me at the point after the server had spawned my fully geared corpse, but before it had removed all the gear from my character.

There was a lot of talk at the time about duping, I remember. Uber guilders had figured this dynamic out and were apparently using exploits to crash zones and duplicate their inventories in this exact way (surprise, surprise). The server I was on and others were being flooded with duped plat. Sony was attempting to track it all down and fix it - which is why I decided to just delete my corpse inventory and walk away whistling. I didn't want to run the risk of being banned/suspended for something that was entirely innocent.

Actually, I think I had to delete my character items before looting the corpse items - hence my anxiety at deleting the epic I was carrying. I remember checking the version on my corpse many times to make certain it was ok before I went through with it, and tested it on lesser lore items first.