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Cheaters get NO PUNISHMENT if wipe happens!
silveralan
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 22 Arc User
Cheaters benefit more than the normal player because
if there would not be a wipe, they will be banned and lose everything.
(This is guaranteed. Examples could be found on some twitch streamers.)
That means, if there is a wipe, cheaters would get no punishment.
And normal players will be cannon fodder.
THINK ABOUT THIS!
if there would not be a wipe, they will be banned and lose everything.
(This is guaranteed. Examples could be found on some twitch streamers.)
That means, if there is a wipe, cheaters would get no punishment.
And normal players will be cannon fodder.
THINK ABOUT THIS!
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You know, the entire thing we're talking about? They lose that.
RIP Caine
And a full server wide wipe will do the same thing, how is it different? The Topic of this post is the cheaters get no punishment from a server wipe
Wrong, it's the rest of the players base that gets punished from a no wipe and the cheaters, when they reroll get nothing they had (win).
Why do people keep saying this?? I'm as dumb as a box of rocks when it comes to computers, but even I know most people use a proxy and, or can have their ISP's change their IP's with a phone call.
IP bans are not the solution.
And whats to stop them from opening a new account and using some other exploit to stay ahead?
A wipe is the only way to end a beta .. unless it's not a beta ...
It's also the only way legit players will ever get back on a level playing field.
Never mind listen try to hear !
Thus PvP is screwed, AH is screwed, and the game is screwed. There are a bunch of people so afraid of loosing 20h that they are ok with letting the game die months before it's time. These self-serving people are not better than the exploiters imho
This still won't solve anything. Trust me on this, you can reset your IP address in like 2 secs. What would solve it is if they banned MAC addresses. Even this can be gotten around, all they would have to do is play on another computer, or just go out and buy a new nic card. Unfortunately, no game will ever get rid of this cancer that exists in the gaming community. No matter how much you try to prevent it, with enough time, effort and trial and error, these parasites will always attempt to circumvent the rules.
But I don't think that's likely.
The proper solution involves rolling back transactions made by exploiting players. As long as they kept a record properly, which I have to assume they will have since money is involved, it can all be fixed elegently. Cryptic would look through their logs for evidence of the exploit, then search through the entire log again for things related to that initial exploit, and then roll it back once they isolate the thread of events involving the exploit and its products. Even "laundering" the loot to another account wouldn't protect you because that's one of the events that would be logged, appended to the chain of events, and rolled back.
Thing is, doing that will require a lot of work because of the size of the databases and iterative complexity of the data involved. Thus: down time. They probably need to write the tools to do it, too. More down time. There's also the simple fact that undoing the damage is meaningless if the problem that allowed the damage isn't also fixed. Even more down time because now you've got developers fixing the auction house, database guys crawling databases, and sysadmins trying to keep the disk farms from melting.
I believe Cryptic will fix this problem properly, and that nobody but the scumbags responsible will be punished. But it will take time.
Peace, Myst