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Hey just got home form work tried to log-in all servers are down right now

Scheduled EverQuest Server Maintenance - 08/09/2007 5:00 am
Downtime Update
All EverQuest servers will be coming down at 5:00 AM PDT (-7 UTC) on Thursday 08/09/2007 for an update. Estimated downtime is 5 hours.



should be up 1pm eastern :-) if all goes well hehe

Was this scheduled?

Anyone know what it's for?

The server down time was to fix a bag duping bug/exploit.

For those that aren't familiar with this particular duping exploit,
since it is now >> nerfed, << I can safely explain. Have you noticed
when you try to sell any bags or containers to vendor, sometimes the
vendor would refuse? If you checked the vendor inventory after the
vendor refused, the in stock quality increased. TYhis has been an
issue for over a month.

So get 2 rare and desirable bags that are dropable and not lore, sell
one to a vendor in an empty zone, then spam selling second bag. The
second bag won't actually sell but the vendor stock will go up. Then
you buy back all the bags, and sell it for fast money. Some have
claimed to get as many as 100 per hour by hand clicking, more using
macro program (another EULA violation here) Then sell it really
cheap.

Most of the moron who were caught after SOE found out about the
exploit were those that had large number of supposedly rare bags,
selling them really cheap like AAAA for 90k instead of normal 150k to
200k, or just got careless and blabbed.

Duped bags are still around but those numbers are very small. I don't
know if SOE is still checking the log for exploit abusers who knew
before SOE did so, I'd say avoid buying those 3 most duped bags for a
couple weeks: AAAA, tae ew hide sacks, and leatherofoot haversacks.

This is hearsay but some smarter players opted to store most of the duped
bags on corpses since corpses are rarely checked. Then they would
take a few out to sell at a time giving the illusion of having only a
few in stock the whole time.