By Moradin's Hammer

psistarprime · August 2014

As the Devs track down the root of today's maintenance issue, I see many references to Caturday. My cloak is slightly lonely sitting in my bank and would appreciate some company. Granted mid afternoon on a Monday (at least in the USA) is not as great a disturbance as that fateful Saturday mess, but we could still celebrate the Hammer dropping on certain types of inappropriate actions with a new title and fashion item. I am having fantasies of seeing my CW's orb portrayed as a floating hammer of the dwarven god of all things good and lawful under creation. Hey.... Moradin is kinda close to Monday... lol... at least it starts with an "M".... and we can proudly show off our hammer to gold farmers and exploiters as we report them for due moderation

mistressphoenix · August 2014

i like the way you think.

pitshade · August 2014

I want a cloak with Rhix on it.

flambridge · August 2014

By the time it is off, it should be something very serious.
I think someone's head should have rolled. U.U

mistressphoenix · August 2014

i don't need another cloak. Perhaps a skin for armor, though...

lordmental · August 2014

Rhix? Why not commemorative sculptures of that great Kobold Hero, Deekin?

rollingonit · August 2014

I suggested a title in the original thread that was purged. Funny though, two days agp I changed my title to my Caturday Survivor. Who'd of known.

gothashot · August 2014

A title would be enough for me. I'm a title addict.

mistressphoenix · August 2014

i still use my Caturday title on my main. (Some of my alts have it available, just seems more appropriate on my main, though.)

lordmental · August 2014

magenubbie wrote: »

Rhix is richer and pays better for the advertising.

Actually, I've been wondering if there's a relation between the two. Rhix could be a descendant of Deekin, and that is my headcanon. (Not Headcannon, although I'd like one.)

psistarprime · August 2014

Why have a cloak when we could have a weapon skin, ie Hammer? Just imagine everyone in PE gathering to raise their Hammer of Moradin in support of the dwarven god smacking down evil ;-)

and, seriously, making my orb look like a floating hammer is giving me giggles

flambridge · August 2014

lordmental wrote: »

Actually, I've been wondering if there's a relation between the two. Rhix could be a descendant of Deekin, and that is my headcanon. (Not Headcannon, although I'd like one.)

I thought Rhix was only "a merchant who liked weird stonyes". XD

hustin1 · August 2014

psistarprime wrote: »

As the Devs track down the root of today's maintenance issue, I see many references to Caturday. My cloak is slightly lonely sitting in my bank and would appreciate some company. Granted mid afternoon on a Monday (at least in the USA) is not as great a disturbance as that fateful Saturday mess, but we could still celebrate the Hammer dropping on certain types of inappropriate actions with a new title and fashion item. I am having fantasies of seeing my CW's orb portrayed as a floating hammer of the dwarven god of all things good and lawful under creation. Hey.... Moradin is kinda close to Monday... lol... at least it starts with an "M".... and we can proudly show off our hammer to gold farmers and exploiters as we report them for due moderation

Why did I suddenly think of the Skrymir mini-quest?

"That's Skrymir's beard! YOU killed Skrymir? By Moradin's left -- whew, you're a real terror, aren't you?"

Why, oh why???

iambecks1 · August 2014

CMPinpointerror just posted that the server is still down and they are still working on it , how long has the server been down then? 5 hours give or take?

psistarprime · August 2014

well there is a patch to download, at least

rollingonit · August 2014

Id wait till official notice. Previous games Ive played, sometimes the server was unlocked on accident and youd end up downloading files that messes stuff up. But eh idk maybe its up.

jennyavariel · August 2014

Not sure how they're going to play this one. The downtime, of course, is to test the new fix, and ensure that it's actually working properly. Get that barn door locked up good and *tight* now that all the AD, erm, horses are out in circulation

I'm new to this game. I've been here less than a month. I've spent a bit though. Had to have the Feywild pack. The horse and faerie companion are just too good to pass up. And I picked up some zen for the charge rewards, so I'd have some green companions.

I *assumed* coming into the game that there would be a bit of market speculation. I moved here from SWTOR, and there's a bit of speculation there, as you might imagine. Any game that hits a certain stage will have some old timers, and those old timers will have an edge. If those old timers are also cunning, they can turn that edge into something more. Cornering a market isn't anything new.

Things like this business today though... It does kind of give one pause. With a finite quantity of AD coming in, and the existing sinks in place to take some of that back out ( respec, speeding up training / professions / costs for teleport scrolls / etc. ), the backlog doubled from <6 million last month, to >12 million today. I would speculate that some of the AD obtained by non-developer anticipated means have made their way into the ZAX.

Among other long term effects, it will possibly mean that the AH price will go up on a number of items. With enough of 'widget x' rolling around, from countless dungeon runs, you'd expect supply to equal demand at some point, and an equilibrium to be reached.

A few individuals with a large pile of AD on hand could artificially inflate the price of previously 'commodity' priced items. I expect to see the price of things like Rank 5 enchants to double in the coming days and weeks.

About the best thing you can hope for is that most of the individuals responsible for today's misadventure were actually goldfarmers. They'll simply sell the AD for cash, and it'll get spread back out evenly. A more serious threat would be an individual ( or individuals ) who wished to simply 'set the market price for all enchantments'. Such was done on the SW server for certain mounts / armors / etc. at one time.

Stay safe out there.

frishter · August 2014

Unless I'm recalling it wrong. Caturday lasted much much longer in downtime so I'm not really sure anything is really needed.

iambecks1 · August 2014

So 5 hours to Bind the Astral resonator (yet another bound item to add to the ever growing list) , still 12.5 million backlog and everything of decent to high value is gone from the AH , so guess all that exploited AD is well and truly laundered , nice lmfao

sockmunkey · August 2014

iambecks1 wrote: »

So 5 hours to Bind the Astral resonator (yet another bound item to add to the ever growing list) , still 12.5 million backlog and everything of decent to high value is gone from the AH , so guess all that exploited AD is well and truly laundered , nice lmfao

I think tonights fix was just that...a fix. Its much to soon for any bans to happen or for any real investigations to be done. I dont expect we will see the typical "I was banned unfairly" posts for a few more days at least. Most likely, more then enough time for all the culprits to transfer all their loots

ashnvf · August 2014

Looks like all the blueprints are gone too.

iambecks1 · August 2014

jennyavariel wrote: »

Every single doohickey was bought up

So was every thingamajig or whatever they were called and I'm assuming everything else to convert to event rewards , so were the Tymora's coins I listed and several mimics too , I got a fairly cheap Blacksmith costume though so I'm good xD.

jennyavariel · August 2014

Bop will prevent recurrence of this particular issue. Once hopes that a search for multiple uses of the item, without having that many of the item in one's inventory at the time ( though, I doubt very much that they actually have the means to do this ) would turn something up. Keeping a changelog of every accounts inventory though... Let's just say it's a lot of space, for very little payoff in general. It's something that's done when a lot of security is needed in a system. But, this isn't really the sort of system with that kind of regulation is going to be worried about. This is tracking who has access to which bit of virtual fluff from day to day. The types of logging you have on, say, 'pills on hand on Tuesday of last week' is required of a hospital, but not required of a game company. So... They may literally be *unable* to track down the 'guilty'. And, as I said in other ( now locked ) posts, those who exploited this long term for the past few months before the video popped up today will have done so intelligently. It will not be possible to prove the issue against those who most deserve a ban.

Good thing I'm playing this to have fun myself, rather than worry about how many virtual widgets someone else has banked.

iambecks1 · August 2014

jennyavariel wrote: »

>snip<

I would have thought they can search for users who used say more than 30 or 40 astral resonators in any 24 hour period or won't they be able to track stuff like that either? I have no idea about computer programming and stuff lol

rollingonit · August 2014

ashnvf wrote: »

Looks like all the blueprints are gone too.

They have moved alot of the event things around.

Doohickeys are now in I think consumables sorry. Groms in consumables.But either alot of doohickeys were bought up or something. They were like 1.5 mil. now over 2 mil.

edit wrong ah catergory

frishter · August 2014

rollingonit wrote: »

They have moved alot of the event things around.

Doohickeys are now in I think consumables sorry. Groms in consumables.But either alot of doohickeys were bought up or something. They were like 1.5 mil. now over 2 mil.

edit wrong ah catergory

You'd think that they'd let us know like the french forums. But nope, lets annoy our players instead.

ryugasirius · August 2014

frishter wrote: »

You'd think that they'd let us know like the french forums. But nope, lets annoy our players instead.

Nothing has changed, nothing happened, nothing to see... move along!

walk2k · August 2014

magenubbie wrote: »

That question won't be enough to find them, but yes. That's roughly the idea. If they ask the right questions these people can be found easily. It'll take some time to gather and check the results, which I would have done manually to prevent the wrong people from getting banned, but I imagine they'd go about it something like that.

don't hold your breath for any kind of fix or bans.
last time this happened (not Caturday, another huge exploit fiasco, yes there have been several) they fixed the bug then just came out and said that those who exploited it were just "lucky" and will not be banned, and will be able to keep all their duped AD.

don't you wish you had been so "lucky"? :rolleyes:

goonlaughie · August 2014

walk2k wrote: »

don't hold your breath for any kind of fix or bans.
last time this happened (not Caturday, another huge exploit fiasco, yes there have been several) they fixed the bug then just came out and said that those who exploited it were just "lucky" and will not be banned, and will be able to keep all their duped AD.

don't you wish you had been so "lucky"? :rolleyes:

Can you fill me in on what actions they took to the Caturday exploiters? Was the exploited AD deleted from the game? Were exploiters accounts and associated accounts permanently banned? I find it a serious offense if I'm spending my real life cash in this game.

I also remember a post by rashylewizz saying he reported primary stat exploiters in pvp, and then said that the exploiters only got a 3 day temporary ban, and keep their pvp rankings. And on top of that, he said his account got banned for doing the morally right thing by reporting them.

I wish I had known about this company before I spent cash here. So far I've been playing 1 year, and I've spent little over $200 bucks on this game... but after hearing about this new exploit, and a company that continually fails to address a hyper-inflated economy due to complacency to check where unusually high AD sources are coming from (which has been going on for months and still getting worse), a company that punishes it's legit playerbase by binding keys and tarmalune coal wards, and keeping relatively high cash shop prices... I wish i had known about this company before I spent my money here. As of now, I can only watch what happens to the game from here and vow to keep my wallet shut indefinitely, and stay away from any cryptic products in the future (until they repair the damage 100%). I definitely cannot recommend this game to my friends or anyone else within good conscience.

iambecks1 · August 2014

walk2k wrote: »

last time this happened (not Caturday, another huge exploit fiasco, yes there have been several) they fixed the bug then just came out and said that those who exploited it were just "lucky" and will not be banned, and will be able to keep all their duped AD.

The time they said the people were 'lucky' was nothing to do with any AD exploit or dupe ,it was a bug on the Nightmare lockboxes that greatly increased the chance of getting a Heavy Inferno Nightmare .

mconosrep · August 2014

magenubbie wrote: »

Bans.. well I did notice something interesting earlier today. I've managed to withstand the troll stench in PE for a little over half an hour, just out of curiosity, and I was rewarded. Not a single bot ad. Usually they pop up every 5 minutes or so. But nothing at all in 30 min but the usual zone trolls and their smelly rear ends. We'll see how long it lasts, but it's an indication something is being done.

What that means is that the AD-selling sites probably lost a major stream of AD generation. This is good until the Leadership bots start multiplying....

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