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Hrmm not sure if I ran unto this glitch . When I was doing hydra he would run to the person and drop the balls on the floor which made the fight harder. I really hope this is not what there talking about .:(

An FC-mate of mine figured this out in the first week. He then abused it 3 times and tried to get us all to abuse it with him.. I'm no longer in that FC, lol. It's repeatable (and I'm not going to say how), but anyone who was around for the mass bannings regarding Salvage in FFXI for abusing glitches knows better.

Edited, Sep 19th 2013 10:40am by Louiscool

What was the sandworm exploit?

The salvage duping issue caused so many to be banned not because they accidentally had it happen to them, but because there was a deliberate conspiracy to keep it secret from SE so it wouldn't be patched. (Basically, it doubled or tripled the number of drops based on parties. So a group would go in as a party of six, then drop and rearrange into an alliance of 2 each, and get triple the loot.)

I think it went on about six months before SE found out. Entire servers (like Seraph where I was) were unaware of it and thus unaffected, but entire linkshells on the servers were the dupe exploit was known got banned. Not just because they benefited from the exploit, but because they deliberately chose not to report the bug to SE.

As always, it's not the crime, it's the cover-up.

Right as long as you did something illegal once that is usually enough. I would be more concerned if it was people in LS who never did it.

It involves intentionally D/Cing as the fight loads, which will cause Chimera and Hydra to just stand there while you kill it. (It's more complex but that's the gist of it)

You are safe as long as you leave the instance if you find the boss not fighting back.

Edited, Sep 19th 2013 12:41pm by Louiscool

That's just it though, you couldn't leave the instance. We tried to leave, and had to wait out the entire time till he logged back in with 4 mins left. See, when they d/c, it doesn't give the Duty Commence. This was during their crappy 90k days, and the inability to log back in once you d/c. I don't see them going crazy on the Ban. The people who do it over and over though.... Take care, see you again!

Got 4 relics so far in 2.0 each with legit kills so, I'm not worried. Those FFXI bans... Never Forget~

You can expect them to do a thorough investigation. I hope they don't let it slide like the Garuda BLM burn.

Edited, Sep 19th 2013 7:25pm by GDLYL

Well are you not intelligent enough to realize exploiting a broken boss fight for gain is bad and against the rules?

Their notice mentions NOTHING regarding whether this occurs with a boss, or with trash mobs. The majority of people, should this happen (especially with trash), would continue clearing the instance.

Attacking my personal intelligence based on my comments above have nothing to do with this issue at all, avoids my question, and are inflammatory at best.

My point is this: if people do not see this notice, many will continue to clear the dungeon and really not think about it, especially if the issue occurred by accident.

Now, if they intentionally cause it to take place? That's another issue entirely.

My philosophy: If you have to cheat to get it, you don't deserve it.

Sadly BG cheats like crazy and did so in 1.0 (Pos hacking out of IE's arena to avoid certain damage for example) and continue to get props but eh. Anyway, much like the Titan exploit, people who intentionally exploit should definitely get banned, you can't call it "SE's incompetence" since every single/multiplayer game in existence has an exploit to be found somewhere.

If you go in and Chimera/Hydra stands there letting you beat on it, something obviously isn't working because how many FF games with a Chimera have you played that never fought back or auto killed you?

Same with Titan, if you purposefully jump off the platform SE doesn't even need to see the particulars, they know people are exploit. "But it'll hurt the games population blah blah" so what? Make examples of them, as we seen with Salvage bans despite crying "I'm never playing this game again" after stating that SE would never catch and ban them...only to get banned, people crawl right back even if they have to start over.