test content
Logo
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc
New Shard Instead of Wipe
sshate
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users Posts: 33
Just make a new shard for people who want to start over fresh. Give each player the option to wipe their own characters to get all the Z and Founder/Promo items they bought with real money re-credited to their account (though it's a 1-time choice before they log back in to avoid exploit).
For the rest of us who feel that cleaning up dirty accounts is enough. We can have the option to stay.
I think it's easy to track down all the dirty accounts if they simply track the IP logs and mail logs (I know they most likely have this due to earlier issue of ghosting old mails). Furthermore, expired AH listing are ghosting on client, so that means AH listings also don't get removed after expiring. This is not Cryptic's first MMO. Hunting down the cheaters is just a matter of several SQL scripts. Just because the programmer who wrote the AH exploit was unthoughtful, doesn't mean the server/DB engineers are not great at what they do. The economy might still suffer some after-effect but IMO, inflation was inevitable with the way AD is given out in truck-load amounts through dailies, skirmish, and professions. I'd bite the slightly sped up inflation rate than to grind through the same 1-30 content yet again. lol
For the rest of us who feel that cleaning up dirty accounts is enough. We can have the option to stay.
I think it's easy to track down all the dirty accounts if they simply track the IP logs and mail logs (I know they most likely have this due to earlier issue of ghosting old mails). Furthermore, expired AH listing are ghosting on client, so that means AH listings also don't get removed after expiring. This is not Cryptic's first MMO. Hunting down the cheaters is just a matter of several SQL scripts. Just because the programmer who wrote the AH exploit was unthoughtful, doesn't mean the server/DB engineers are not great at what they do. The economy might still suffer some after-effect but IMO, inflation was inevitable with the way AD is given out in truck-load amounts through dailies, skirmish, and professions. I'd bite the slightly sped up inflation rate than to grind through the same 1-30 content yet again. lol
Post edited by sshate on
0
Comments
Also, I think it'd be kinda cool if everyone would stop making their own 'WELL THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED AND I WANNA SAY' because I'm pretty sure there's a sticky somewhere that says don't do that - unless the mods changed it, which... idk anymore.
WTB Big-Giant Robot Camels, tbh...
Also a valid point. A new shard doesn't solve all of NW's exploit problems. There's probably some left to be found out, and many more will continue trying... There needs to be something, but first - ban the baddies.
WTB Big-Giant Robot Camels, tbh...
If anything, farmers with 100 free accounts chaining professions on Gateway using script is real problem that people are not (yet) rioting about.
Yes, but... There's still no point for a new shard, I don't see why PW/Cryptic/Whoever would make that decision just yet. Exploiters would move to that server just like any other server and nothing would be gained.
WTB Big-Giant Robot Camels, tbh...
Giving your paying customers what makes them happy is always the most ideal solution, rational/efficient or not. A new shard allow BOTH camps of players to get what they want.