Ilum bug/exploit - No DR on Turrets - Valor rank 100 easily achieved

[jearle]

You can follow the thread here

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=193304

Basically people can kill Turrets over and over with no DR on the kills.

Capping out valor rank 100 in a short amount of time.

I am sure this is on the radar of BW (I would hope).

Question is what will they do?

Ban? Highly unlikely
Roll back all valor earned since 1.1? Highest possibility
Nothing? Would make alot of folks extremely mad

[ohnoto]

I do believe this will get fixed quickly. As for what they will do, I don't think banning is a possibility since the bug is on their end. I do think that rolling back honor is a high possibility.

[vizzle]

I don't think they usually do rollbacks, do they?

[ringthree]

I don't think they usually do rollbacks, do they?

Usually? I don't think we can determine "usually", yet.

[jearle]

This will definitely be a valor rollback. All valor earned today will be rolled back, its the easiest and quickest fix for this issue.

There are 100 person raids killing turrets and a rate of 1k valor per minute.

This is a huge deal and they need to bring servers down fast.

[Armond]

The duping bug was also "their end", but if you did it maliciously, you got banned. Wouldn't be surprised if we saw some week long bans on the exploiters and rollbacks for anyone who went out of their way for the valor.

[jearle]

The duping bug was also "their end", but if you did it maliciously, you got banned. Wouldn't be surprised if we saw some week long bans on the exploiters and rollbacks for anyone who went out of their way for the valor.

That is going to be insanely difficult to do and will take a lot more resources and research than rolling back 4 hours of valor earned.

We shall see though.

Some people have brought there low level alts to sit in these groups and rank up valor.

[Deleted]

They best do a roll back or i will probably cancel my account, i worked hard in warzones to get to rank 60 fast and to see people exploiting this and get there in 1 day really takes the piss.

[Malleus]

The duping bug was also "their end", but if you did it maliciously, you got banned. Wouldn't be surprised if we saw some week long bans on the exploiters.

Do you really think that, on the last day of the free month, they're going to issue week-long bans to what looks like about 5% of their entire player base for playing the game as it was designed?

[Beavis]

Do you really think that, on the last day of the free month, they're going to issue week-long bans to what looks like about 5% of their entire player base for playing the game as it was designed?

If they have any integrity they will. Sploiters be sploiting.

[Alianthos]

Is this for real ? Holy shit, this is huge. I like farming Valor, its a cool grind, but if people can steamroll this within a few hour, there will be blood.

[Deleted]

If they do a roll back that would mean we lose any gear we gained today etc right?

[Vexies]

I really love how people claim it is "playing the game as intended" when clearly its not and clearly its borked and clearly there will be repercussions from it. Why on earth would you participate in something so clearly bugged? If you do and you do get banned or the valor rolled bad ( one of the two WILL happen ) you will then turn around a flame a shit storm on the forums about how its unfair blah blah.. people really.

[Kisuro]

And in a week or so this forum and the official forums will be flooded with "I PvPd on Ilum and got banned for nothing!" topics.

[Deleted]

They really better hope they are able to rollback. Because the amount of people they'd have to ban for this would be insane, and you don't even have to be the one attacking the turret because it awards Valor to everyone in the group, so people not knowingly doing it would be punished.

[Valeron]

What a mess. They will have to do a rollback, it's the only way to do it in my opinion.

[Lathais]

I hope they continue with their current trend of banning people. These people probably KNOW this is not intended, they know it is a bug and they are exploiting it. Hit them all with a banhammer AND a rollback.

[Dakia]

People are now reporting that the turrets no longer give valor. I'm not 100% sure as to the validity of that, but it may have been hotfixed.

[hexify]

People are now reporting that the turrets no longer give valor. I'm not 100% sure as to the validity of that, but it may have been hotfixed.

When has BW hotfixed anything?

[Orange Joe]

I do believe this will get fixed quickly. As for what they will do, I don't think banning is a possibility since the bug is on their end. I do think that rolling back honor is a high possibility.

Sorry but saying this is about the dumbest thingIi have heard..... ALL bugs will be on their end. It's up to you as someone with enough common sense to say HEY, this isn't working right. Maybe I shouldn't exploit it so I don't get in trouble. I personaly would rather see bans handed out to people.... Only idiots would take advatageof something like this and not expect something in return.

---------- Post added 2012-01-18 at 01:59 PM ----------

When has BW hotfixed anything?

the "get down" bug?