definitely favoritism and hypocrisy

[Mardur]

Lovely was the #1 person championing the removal of redwood wands. Not sure what other exploits you're talking about. Nothing crazy has happened except for some halflings getting a few k plat early from that quest.

[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.]

[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

[Truth]

nerd alert

[Chronoburn]

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

[PhantomRogue]

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

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

Id sure as hell hope not. But they also shouldn't say a Fix to a problem that was obvious in beta, that supposedly wasn't raised, was wrong when its obvious that its right.

[Moonface]

IF YOU FOUND A BUG OR EXPLOIT ON LIVE AND USED IT WITHOUT REPORTING IT YOU WOULD SUFFER A BAN OR ROLLBACKS ON LIVE. THE FUCK IS THIS CUSTOM EQ? IF YOU WERE STUPID ENOUGH TO USE THE HELL OUT OF THE EXPLOIT THEN TRY YOUR HARDEST TO GET IT NERFED AFTER YOU DON'T NEED IT ANYMORE, YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN FUCKING BANNED.

bottom line, why let all these bugs and shit in game since they were in classic, but not use the same punishments as they did?

kk cool story.