NICE SOE!!!Follow

For anyone who didn't log on right when the servers came back up, behind the main bank in pok around 20 or more vendors with the tag ("temp vendor") were lined up selling a vast amount of tradeskill items, stat foods, and other amazing things. GMs despawned the vendors after about an hour. There were also 2 new alchemy vendors in the potion room in pok. Those were despawned when the zone was popped about an hour later.

Although I think it was a terrible glitch or perhaps a joke by a sneaky programmer, why on earth would SOE do something like this or allow something like this to happen? How could something like this be done unintentionally?

Whatever the case, I got myself a few artisan's seals, a couple gnashed magnetic bps, very decent stat food, and a grandmaster's tailor needle. What kind of goodies did some of you find?

Commonly in a beta (in GoD and DoN at least) they will place these vendors up to test the new tradeskill recipies without requiring tons of tester time farming.

I'd guess that it was some beta code that snuck its way into the promotion for the patch (since PoK did get updated).

Darn, work interferes with fun, and logging on in a timely manner.

Oh, did I say darn work, I meant YAY, WORK. At least I can play without fear of rollbacks.

And for those that took advantage of this you can cheer all you want because SOE put out a MTOD stating they are going to look for and roleback selected characters that might have taken advantage of something they should not have.

But like you said NICE SOE!!!

Edited, Wed Jan 18 18:16:34 2006 by xyvarious

LOL

Just a few people maybe 5% of the population Rollbacks are causeing all sorts of **** n moanings. But considering the exploits that were taken advantage of, let alone the AAs aquired via exploit I can't blame them.

Are you sure 'bout that?

Bumbi, lay off the coffee:

"In order to address this we will be performing selective and aggressive rollbacks of certain characters throughout the day."

Now what part of this message leads to you believe you stand to lose anything?

SONY is in this for money, they are not going to alienate every EQ player who were online after the patch, only those that took advantage of an obvious bug/exploit. People who DO abuse bugs for their own advantage know they have it coming, the rest of us can just lean back and watch them squirm :-)

I understand nailing the ones who did indeed relise it was an exploit. I apparently bought a tainted item from an NPC vendor and I still got punished. OK fine I will eat the tainted item. But when the "rollback" was done, somewhere in the mix I lost more than just the item I had purchased in SH from an NPC vendor as well as everything in my shared bank to include pp. 58k may not be alot to some of you who can farm plat like nothing, but for us "casual" players that is alot. That is what I am mad about. Not the cheaters getting fixed, but the ones who were hit in the process who were clueless. Yah, I am a bit niave whe it comes to alot of stuff, but this is straight up wrong. I didn't go to pok and buy everything in sight. I was vendor slumming after a patch in an entirely different zone. I did the /petition and got a canned "oh well suck it up" comment. If I were guilty like some of those other folks (I heard you could get crushed diamond dust and metallic drake scales) fine, then punishment should be executed. I hate the fact that I have to be punished as an innocent bystander. The tradeskillers want to complain about their time (I am over 250 in all skills tyvm), what about the time I invested in gaining that amount of pp? Where are the reprocussions for MY time loss? NONEXISTENT because it is not in SOE favor to right their wrong.

edit: spelling.

Edited, Thu Jan 19 13:32:00 2006 by Minolin

Just a thought... do you suppose they will "selectively" rollback the players in the picture that was posted on this thread? What an ***! Sucks to be them.
I did not get on till about 10pm last night, but I would have taken advantage with a low level alt had I been given the opportunity. It, of course, would have been absolutely wrong, but temptation is hard to resist to the poor lvl 2 enchanter wearing cloth armor,and holding a sharpened dagger:)

I fail to see how a rollback would remove anything from your charicter that was there before the point the rollback took you back to.

So petition for your Shared bank to be restored to it's original state.

Save yourself some pain. Forget in game GMs and /petitions.

Example: http://www.necrotalk.com/index.php?showtopic=5431

They are all auto answered by AI or Off Shore GMs. It's fine for "I am stuck in wall, move to Nexus" *Indian GM checks Index Card, finds "stuck" and policy says "move them" and he does it. Anything else = "no, sorry".

Always use:

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