"gold pits" foundry petition

boxinater · August 2013

My new and blossoming foundry map series "gold pits" has been taken down, I was never notified by game management.
These maps help players and make farming much easier. many players enjoy these maps and because of this, these maps should be allowed to stay up. I would like for all supporters of my maps to help me convince the admins that these maps should stay. I hope that my maps are good enough to have supporters willing to stand up for them.

-Pidgeonhorse

kilvaro · August 2013

I can tell you right now, you are on the wrong forums to post such a poll. Noone here will support your maps, plus there is a reason why they were taken down - they're exploitive.

boxinater · August 2013

they are only explotive to a minority of class, and its not a game breaking exploit.

saerrael · August 2013

Your maps were taken down due to violating against ToS.

zovya · August 2013

boxinater wrote: »

they are only explotive to a minority of class, and its not a game breaking exploit.

And you admit it's an exploit. The downside to F2P games unfortunately.

chili1179 · August 2013

I can't vote because you did not give the "no way in hell" option.

boxinater · August 2013

the Tos says no exploiting, this is not true exploiting. true exploiting is when everyone can just sit there and kill anything. only 2 classes are able to do that

boxinater · August 2013

these maps are to give a quick way to restore potion supplies. i see no problem in being able to do so when in other ways of "farming" it takes almost as many potions used as to the amount you would get.

vorphied · August 2013

I just don't think it's worth worrying about. With the limitations in place already, anyone trying to over-farm such a foundry quickly starts receiving virtually no drops at all. At best you could very efficiently farm drops for a few minutes, and then you get nothing once you've killed too many mobs in a short period of time.

There's really no way to stop this behavior entirely short of eliminating drops in the foundry, which would be unnecessarily punitive, especially to players trying to level characters by using player-created content.

rogu3ish · August 2013

Wow, so you actually post on the official forums that you think your exploit should stay available because only a few classes can exploit it?

lordgrimmwood · August 2013

boxinater wrote: »

the Tos says no exploiting, this is not true exploiting. true exploiting is when everyone can just sit there and kill anything. only 2 classes are able to do that

Think of it like this: An exploit no matter how big or small is still an exploit, just like a lie no matter how big or small is still a lie.

kilvaro · August 2013

I don't think you realize how wrong of a place this is to post such information. NO author here is going to support your maps.

zovya · August 2013

No, he's in the correct forum for this. He's trolling.

rogu3ish · August 2013

If these kinds of maps are popular, surely just a *small* tweak wouldn't hurt them, right?

How about you try making a series called "Gold Plains" instead of "Gold Pits". Spawn the same number of mobs, in the same configuration, just on a plain instead of in a pit. See how well that goes over.

At the very least they couldn't be taken down for an obvious ToS violation.

gornonthecob · August 2013

boxinater wrote: »

These maps help players and make farming much easier. many players enjoy these maps and because of this, these maps should be allowed to stay up.

-Pidgeonhorse

*blinks* Did I just.... no... *rubs eyes*

Yep, I just read that.

It's obviously way past my bedtime.

jedite2012 · August 2013

I wouldn't mind if the had a story and a bit of a variation but these gold pits are ruining other foundries people worked so hard on because there a so many and are been rated on, it pushes to the top so no one else can see the other foundries, if you want gold pits there should b an option to no have it rated so people just search for gold pits instead and play it and not get rated

kerlaa · August 2013

Voted no for the fact that it hurts forum content creators that worked hard and spent a large chunk of their time to create content only to see it pushed into oblivion. ft content like yours was reported to be could never make it to best/daily reward status then I'm sure their would have been far less hatred.

ambisinisterr · August 2013

If your Foundry Mission was taken down it was because your quest was deemed a violation of the Foundry Terms of Service and End User Licence Agreement. You should read those before making future content.

I'll see what I can do about them getting a clearer definition as to what is an acceptable farm and what is not but simply laying mobs in areas to kill is asking for trouble even if it is not explicitly stated in the Terms of Service. The Foundry exists to permit players to create content for other players to play through and should not be used to simply increase your ability to gain gold/drops/experience.

It doesn't have to have an in depth storyline and dungeon crawls with little to no story have been confirmed to be fine but placing mobs in open areas simply to kill them with the intent of obtaining gold/drops/experience at an expedited rate is more than likely going to be removed, without warning, as an exploit and unintended use of the system as described by the ToS and EULA.

The one thing the Foundry is not is a cheat button. The plan is and always will be to make Foundry Missions equal to the official content but people who try to use the Foundry as a way to create easy gold/experience/drops hurt that possibility for the great authors in the community.

While I try to let people state their opinions this thread is simply going to go from bad to worse due to the nature and location of the request. I think the responses you received speak for themselves as to why this thread is not a suitable topic for discussion. If you have any further questions about this don't hesitate to send myself or the other Community Moderators or Community Managers a PM.

"gold pits" foundry petition

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