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[Mead]

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

My original forum account got banned has something to do with my in-game account? Stop trying to defend yourself for being stupid. Accounts are banned for saying homophobic slurs but under your logic, that person also ruined a game.

I'm actually the one who figured out about the dupe and was standoffish about releasing the information since I don't know what the outcome might be. There is no friend. I'm also the one releasing the information and telling people it's not a good thing. Of course, when I place an order for an item in game via the DB store and it comes in and didn't charge me, I'm going to investigate and keep trying it to see what the hell was going on. I reported the bug but still have all the items and nothings been done.

I'll oblige for how the dupe worked - On the server release everything was extremely laggy. Zone denials were common and group invites took forever. Store purchases were doing the same thing. If you had the DBC, selected the items you wanted and cancelled out while it was still in the processing effect, it would give you the items and not charge you DBC. You had to be in an extremely populated zone such as Nek. Something would happen with the communication between the store and charging you for the transaction. The items would pop up in your inventory but you weren't charged. This would only happen if you cancelled out of the DB store mid transaction. I did it a few times and haven't tried it since. I don't know how many people figured it out but all in all it worked for 6 bags, 25 EXP pots, 4 Group ones.

Not my fault you're too dense to see that they want to sweep these issues under the rug to avoid a rollback.

You openly admit finding a bug, continue to exploit it, and I'm the dense one? What realm of crazy have I warped into? Just stop while you aren't ahead. You're using Caiu logic here. We all know how that turned out. If you missed it you can go back and read the posts in that thread.

[Pokesan]

im an insignificant troll who thinks day 1 duping is a bad thing for the agnarr progression server

[BallzDeep]

And you obviously probably never played on Fippy.... Lol. I was in Citizen from the start, I was there for all the harm touch wars that plagued the server. TLP's are fun but always full of issues and problems. I was just hoping for a balanced release this time since this is like the 8th? TLP that's been released under the Everquest franchise.

[Izmael]

I have no idea how they manage to suck as much as they do when it comes to absorbing traffic / load spikes.

Creating an everquest character isn't exactly a complex task in terms of computing power. It is actually a very trivial task if your database is designed and maintained by even a mediocre database administrator.

Given the today's processing power of computers, speed of storage and low memory cost, they should be able to absorb spikes of thousands of characters created every second without blinking an eye, on a single entry-level $400 computer.

[BallzDeep]

Games also fail because of bad bugs - See WoW emu servers, Vanguard, lots of other games. The initial hype is what makes these games most profitable and a smooth launch ensures players will stay. I'm not saying bugs don't happen but the amount of bugs, the problems with the queue, and all the other shit made the experience kinda shitty the first day. Most companies stress test the system first and over-estimate the amount of traffic they will be getting. I don't think they even attempted this one time.

[AzzarTheGod]

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

Games also fail because of bad bugs - See WoW emu servers, Vanguard, lots of other games. The initial hype is what makes these games most profitable and a smooth launch ensures players will stay. I'm not saying bugs don't happen but the amount of bugs, the problems with the queue, and all the other shit made the experience kinda shitty the first day. Most companies stress test the system first and over-estimate the amount of traffic they will be getting. I don't think they even attempted this one time.

This is true. Vanguard had a mail dupe that involved the trade window. Same dupe that EQ had in 1999. very shoddy permission code.

Made a decent 10k or so in rl bucks selling to a china distro. GMs deleted our mailbox and didnt bother to ban any of our accounts lmao I guess they took the blame for being such shit ass coders (we were like wtf this game is dead go away fucker)

Then the game died and I was sad.

[AzzarTheGod]

ill be duping in pantheon with the Quaalude coders they hired

cant w8 to make a nice 5 figure check again

[Nirgon]

lemme get a bag of them duped group xp pots bruh

[AzzarTheGod]

lmao let me get a group full of them leet hacker boyz

[BallzDeep]

Lol TBH I have 23 25% Exp pots, 4 Group pots and 6 14 slot bags that are in my inventory for free. My friend and I actually benefitted from the bugs and I still think the launch was shitty.