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Alright, although I'm a vet, at the same time I've been gone for a while, and yet I've noticed that a lot of people are pretty pissed off.
What's the deal? What are people so angry about? Is it the PvP thing? What is it, exactly?
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My summation of whats got people upset is as follows.
Issue 14 contained a great addition to the game. Unfortunatly this great addition contained some serious flaws that allowed for some really heavy exploiting, getting 1-50 in less than 3 hours type exploiting. Some people pointed this out in beta before it went live and it went live with only a couple of changes but with the main exploit still intact. A week or so later we have the anniversary event which has the welcome back event, and aparently a publishing blackout which means that the devs couldn't patch it for a week. With the massive increase in numbers we saw a massive exploit spike.
Positron makes a statement saying that they can and may punish exploiters if its deemed to be an extreme case. People panic and misinterpret the statement as being anti-farming or anti-PLing. 2 days later a clarifying statement is made and we are reassured that IF they decide to punish it will be for extreme cases and on a case by case basis.
A week or so later punishment gets handed out in the form of temp bans, however instead of case by case it seems that its scripted and as a result some people with level pacted characters who did not exploit anything get a temp ban because one toon goes from 1-50 in a couple minutes because another went from 1-50 in twice the normal time.
Once the punishment was handed out moderators smacked down every thread that was not the official thread, then the official thread got locked. Other threads are still being deleted.
In short, the developers, while being well within their rights to do so, seriously messed up in handing out punishments and rather than doing it on a case by case basis, opted for running a script which banned innocent users. The whole thing has been handled poorly.
personally I object to the level pacters being affected and to me that is the greatest problem with what has happened. I dont object to the devs handing out punishment, but I do object to how they did it.
thats the long and the short of it from my perspective.
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OK seriously I am getting a complex, how the hell does this not get deleted when everytime i post the same thing mine get deleted?
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I had hoped that this thread would somehow manage to avoid a violation of the Message Forum Guidelines, specifically rule #4. This does not appear possible as the vast majority of posts in this thread discuss CS activities and moderator activities.
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If you wish to discuss this please feel to PM me, but otherwise this subject is not suitable for the open boards as it cannot do anything but lead to violation of the Message Forum Rules and Guidelines. I have the greatest sympathy for anyone who had action taken against them in error, however that is a subject to take up with CS and not with the open forums.
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