RAID Exploit!

"Annastrasza;452648" wrote:

"C3POwn;452581" wrote:
And they should ban anyone who did this

They won't ban anyone at this time. I mean whales were involved in this exploit they would hey ban he cash cow.

Tops...a warning will be issued and they will update this in a patch.

No one is getting banned.

Uh.. rules are rules, no one is above reproach this is EXACTLY the type of thinking of why high profile people like government officials and celebrities get a pass..

money does NOT excuse you from doing wrong. Simple integrity 101. WE do NOT let anyone exploit just to win or get ahead. PERIOD.

If you think that way, perhaps you were one of the culprits... Money does not make the world go around contrary to popular belief.

Good behavior, etiquette, karma and solid values.. that is the basis for society, cheating is NOT welcome at ANY level.

"marydare;452658" wrote:
I'm actually impressed they admitted this was ever a thing. Awkward!

Well full disclosure, they don't want this to turn out to be a scandal that would be bad for ALL of their games not just this one. I am glad they came clean.

Who else knows what else they are hiding.. but at LEAST it appears they are doing the right thing.

I still say EA is one of my favorite game vendors, if they didn't make this game I probably would not be playing it.

Glad they said it instead of people finding out eventually. But yeah pretty much a big fail and the list is getting longer by the day which is sad.

And I almost felt bad force closing during GW the first month. The reaction was overheated here and blown out of proportion if you compare it to the rest of the exploits. Like guild hopping which was illegal, then legal and now illegal because it will be fixed.

"Hobnob;452726" wrote:
That is weird, I once tried doing it to get more energy months ago and it definitely didn't work so a strange error

It may not work for currency or daily rewards but it specifically refers to RAIDS... so maybe the RAID counter is reset.

"scuba;452642" wrote:

"Jedi_Yoda;44487" wrote:
According to dev updates:
Players can no longer reset their Raid attempts by moving their device clock forward.

OK now we know why so many people are getting millions of damage.. this makes sense...

Or people were actually doing millions of damage

It is possible. I've gotten to a million in just a couple fights with a really good RNG in Phase 1 before.

"Alsend_Drake;452736" wrote:

"scuba;452642" wrote:

"Jedi_Yoda;44487" wrote:
According to dev updates:
Players can no longer reset their Raid attempts by moving their device clock forward.

OK now we know why so many people are getting millions of damage.. this makes sense...

Or people were actually doing millions of damage

It is possible. I've gotten to a million in just a couple fights with a really good RNG in Phase 1 before.

Yes I know its possible my point is how many people use this exploit to gain damage, because not everyone has 20 7* to cover every RAID attempt.. so I am thinking that a few will be squashed because they cannot gain from this exploit.

People share knowledge, so its not out of the realm of possibility that some unsavory guilds will use anything to their advantage.

"Toukai;452742" wrote:

"Jedi_Yoda;452672" wrote:
ESPECIALLY since the game is server based.. not client based.

@Jedi_Yoda
This game IS client based. All your battles and ratios are held client side, and then they send the information to the server when you have finished. Basically, your client tells the server "I beat x team with y moves in z time."

This is why you can have hackers get to top spots by messing with their damage ratios. It isn't a server side hack, it's a client side hack.

Regardless, the client itself should have been written to check for actual server time before unlocking aspects of the game. That's just basic design.... wow.. never mind.. the second I finished writing that it occurs to me they haven't followed basic design since launch. I can think of no other game that isolated half of its community with a gear wall and all the other junk they do.

I retract my statement, they have no idea what they're doing and this is 100% expected.

Wrong ideology. Its SERVER based your client does NOT hold the data, the SERVER does. The client sends requests to the SERVER.

The server handles ALL transactions.

There is thin client and there is fat client. We are using a thin client our devices maybe do some RNG but thats about it every other send is done via the server. The server pushes updates to the client.

"Jedi_Yoda;452685" wrote:

"marydare;452658" wrote:
I'm actually impressed they admitted this was ever a thing. Awkward!

Well full disclosure, they don't want this to turn out to be a scandal that would be bad for ALL of their games not just this one. I am glad they came clean.

I agree totally. I am a new kid (month & a half in) and I have been really impressed with CG's communication to the player base so far. Before this I played another SW MMO where it was spectacularly, bafflingly bad, and they never admitted to any mistakes no matter how well documented.

If the promised communication about precrafting this week errs on the side of full disclosure too, they may win my heart forever.

(Not to start a discussion about that; just saying that since I missed the precraft thing and I need fifteen + droid callers beyond the one I've been able to craft in a month of raiding, it would be helpful to know the logic of why furnaces are in shipments and they're not. But please don't derail the thread on my account. :# )

"Hobnob;452754" wrote:
@Jedi_Yoda that's what I meant mate, it's weird that they didn't use the same server time protection for raids as they did for the rest of the game

Yup, agree with you there.