Code of Conduct wrote:5. The game - like any software - may contain errors and bugs. Correcting these issues and further developing the game is the most important duty of Avatar Creation.
* It is strictly forbidden to use any errors or bugs in the game system to gain any kind of advantage in or out of the game.
*Problems, bugs or exploits must be reported at once on the forums appointed for this end on the website.
End User License Agreement wrote:In order to make sure that the player community isn't disturbed by the actions of a few, AC forbids the following activities to the players:
*It is forbidden to use any trick, hack, or exploit that allows the player to gain ingame currency, or anything that an ingame monetary value can be assigned to, or any kind of unfair advantage over the players.
If I read that right, and I am aware its at AC's discretion and interpretation of those two documents that matters, but before people who have not done this go and do it. Lets look at what is happening.
I am Syndic... (bad taste in my mouth after saying that but its only for a moment... However he admits to maxing his corporations tech trees so hes my guinea pig.)
I have a not so complete tech tree on all my builders. I can build some T4 and some not. I am competeing with the rest of Nia for kernels to further advance my tree.(NOTE: I said some not all. Don't argue well I already had them maxed. If you do kudos.)
Trolling along one day with my giant blob we find that observers instantly re-spawn and start farming it for kernels.
Several hundred later, I have used them to max my tree or sold them for several million nic a piece and bought the ones I needed. I am now at a significant advantage as now several accounts can build shiny T4 stuff by prototyping them.
I now report it on the forums as a bug(in the wrong section...) hoping it will get noticed and fixed before the rest of Nia can max their tech trees.
End being syndic...
Where do I get this all from... I was on your teamspeak3 server when you realized that it is a farm-able bug/exploit/glitch/trick call it what you want. The time of which I first heard it on there and the time of which it got reported are hours apart...
Just so you cant say no I was not... Yes I am from Germany, no you cant ask me who I am. 255 logins though... that should tell you I have been there for a loooong time.
http://www.lukewalsh.net/images/Capture.PNG
I ask that players join me in wanting anyone who used this mechanic to gain an advantage over those of us who did months worth of work on tech trees to be dealt with. The advantage presented was unfair and apparently AC knows it was an issue as it got fixed on today's patch.
Broken mechanic is broken, but to be honest this feels intended to satisfy the ADD crowd that can't be arsed to grind kernels. Bugs of this magnitude are usually fixed instantly, we're on day 6 after it's been reported.
