definitely favoritism and hypocrisy

[Amelinda]

FYI what i said up there was not representative of the staff as far as i know. that is my own personal opinion. I'm not a dev. :P i'm not the boss.

Rogean and Nilbog > me. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Pokeman]

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

Pals Seriously, all kidding and neck tattoos aside -

Celeb MMA fighters on p99red?

i am literally phil baroni

[fiegi]

POKERMAN IS THE NY BADASS?????

[Darth Bane]

I think the person who made this topic had excellent points, just not the even temperment needed to express them properly.

People have obviously been using exploits, and thus far the only thing actually said about it is "You should have reported it, so deal with it" which is kind of funny considering those posts were immediately followed by people saying they did report it, repeatedly, with no effect.
The people who did use those exploits, definitely for personal gain, didn't report them until after they had used them to full effect in order to make sure no one else could, essentially cheat, like they did.
I can't honestly say I wouldn't have done it myself to level or get gear, but reporting them after I used them so no one else can is incredibly underhanded. That's like a Politician advocating against gay marriage because he just broke up with his secret boyfriend. That's pretty much the definition of hypocrisy, do one thing, say the opposite.

As far as favortism, punish the people who used it. I do not know if it is a herculean effort to find out who used exploits, but letting people abuse something then get it stopped once they are finished is ridiculous. I understand this isn't anywhere near the real Classic EQ, but one of the things that made classic so fun was that everyone was on equal footing. I know for a fact that if you were caught using a bug or exploit to your advantage that Verant would ban you. Hell, you couldn't even have compound names back then unless you hid from GMs the whole time. I was forced to delete my first char or get the account banned because I refused to change my name from Bigmidget.

I know the GMs and coders have a lot to do, and I do truly appreciate the time and effort you all have given, but the reasons/excuses given for this topic have been repeatedly proven wrong by following posts.
I'm unsure as to what course of action is best, but you have banned people for using MQ and ShowEQ but seemingly wish to allow the use of exploits that create a much greater disparity among players than those two programs do.

All in all, something should be done in the sense of equality. If nothing else just suspend the people who used it for a few weeks which will allow many more people to catch up to them. It would impose on them something like the timeframe it would have taken to reach that character and gear level without having used an exploit.

[Envious]

In before TR favoritism claims and thread lock~

[Smedy]

can we get back to mma fighters vs searyx factor here please

[Uthgaard]

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

Quoted.

I posted fuckin SQL code on what to look for and how to fix recharging.

Even if P1999 isnt using the exacty PEQ database (which I know its not), the structure and processes should be similar enough for it not to be completely hard to change the sell rate on a fucking item. EVERY item has this modifier.

You posted an update query that was syntactically a disaster, and would have introduced a larger problem than it would have fixed. Modifying the sellrate also modifies what you get for an item, not just what the npc charges to sell it back, making an easy to obtain item vendor for 8k plat.

[PhantomRogue]

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

You posted an update query that was syntactically a disaster, and would have introduced a larger problem than it would have fixed. Modifying the sellrate also modifies what you get for an item, not just what the npc charges to sell it back, making an easy to obtain item vendor for 8k plat.

Like I said, it was based off of the PEQ database, I dont know the fieldnames or Table Names of the P1999 database, but im damn sure it was used as a basis. The Sell Rate is what the Vendor marks up the buy price at (EDIT: PRICE is the Fieldname on PEQ), shit I can even give you the line of the EQEmu Server Code where it calculates the price if you want that. The Buying Price doesn't change, the "syntax" is fine. I write SQL and Programs for a living, I know how to write a Query.

Using the Query I gave you, It would update the SELLRATE field of the Golem Metal Wand (I could write you another query so I didnt need to find the damn ItemID of the Wand if you really want).

Ok, hows this, so you dont need to find the actual ItemID, just rely on the Name of the Item.

update items 
set sellrate = sellrate + 1000.0 -- Arbitrary increase
where [id] in (select [id] from items where UPPER([name]) like '%GOLEM METAL WAND%')
-- Notice im not touching the PRICE field which sets the Price a merchant buys it at

[Truth]

nerd alert

[Chronoburn]

Phantom, I'm pretty sure the devs don't need any help with simple update statements.