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

[foogy]

I logged in a couple of hours after the servers came up, went to ilum to check it out and the imps were farming the republic base spawn, did kill the turrets a few times but they didn't give any noticeable amount of valor, but the spam of 180+20 just from killing republics were crazy.

I didnt do weekly last night, so i had 150 kills to do today, and hello.. I went in there at rank 14 and by the time I was done I was rank 20. Think it took an hour and a half, maybe two. There's DR on getting valor\credit for killing others, so that's why it took so 'long' to get it done. Pretty sure I had committed genocide by the time my quest was completed.

Here's hoping a rollback is done, even though I greatly benefited from this. And I really felt bad for the republics, they couldn't move before dying, so they had no chance of getting out of this mess. Bioware really screwed this up, as already stated here the turrets should instagib with an aoe if anyone tries to enter the base.

However, after I was done, I delivered and went back, but this time I joined channel 2. Best time I've ever had in a game. 30vs30 in the middle. No spawncamp. The occasional guy trying to leave was being snapped by bystanding assassins\operatives.

[Twiddly]

They will ban you for this I am sure. They seem to ban people for "exploiting" things that they left in the game, even though it is there own fault

[Dakia]

They will ban you for this I am sure. They seem to ban people for "exploiting" things that they left in the game, even though it is there own fault

A great number of those ban emails where proven to be false.

[hexify]

They will ban you for this I am sure. They seem to ban people for "exploiting" things that they left in the game, even though it is there own fault

If only they had some sort of PTR or beta phase.

[Frouzeniland]

They will ban you for this I am sure. They seem to ban people for "exploiting" things that they left in the game, even though it is there own fault

I don't think they will ban their last paying subscribers.

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[Nose Nuggets]

They wont ban because spawn camping isnt against the TOS. corpse camping is not against the TOS either. faction imbalance is a fact of life.

guessing about rollbacks is pointless. no one here has any idea what the capabilities of the code is. how in the world could you know if they are even able to rollback granularly like that? its all pointless anyway. the chances of them rolling anything back is practically zero. taking peoples time spent and throwing it in the bin when so many people are effected is a questionable business decision.

[Spriggs]

Here is a video for the Republic perspective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=TL0kDP_Cexo

Hopefully they get this fixed soon.

[Razeo]

Here is a video for the Republic perspective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=TL0kDP_Cexo

Hopefully they get this fixed soon.

I'm imperial and even I think that's completely horrendous and unfair. Another reason why I think Bioware should have went more towards the RvR type of Pvp from DAoC instead of the silly daily quests infested type of pvp.

[Gerion]

I'm imperial and even I think that's completely horrendous and unfair. Another reason why I think Bioware should have went more towards the RvR type of Pvp from DAoC instead of the silly daily quests infested type of pvp.

It's even worse. Republic gets nothing in comparison to Empire valor gains. Empire gets 400% extra valor from capping all 5 objectives PLUS another 200% for "defending" the Republic base when they start farming people inside it. What a joke.

Spoke to an Empire guy on my server. Us on Republic got 70 valor per kill defending our base which we could never get out of. They got 200 valor per kill farming the shit out of us.

[schippie]

Update all no server roll back.

Everybody who was level 50 and farmed to 60 grats on your battlemaster titles. You can keep them.

Hello everyone; I wanted to update you on the issues we’ve been seeing today on the live servers, specifically within the Open World PvP area on Ilum. We’re aware that on some servers, either Republic or Empire groups have been capturing the Ilum control points, entering the enemy’s base and ‘camping’ the medcenters, preventing the opposite faction from leaving their base to recapture control points. This is not a fair or balanced gameplay experience and can also severely affect client performance, so we’re taking steps to address this.

Our intended design for Ilum Open World PvP is that players are instantly killed when entering the enemy’s base safe area, just like in Warzones, and that the defending faction can take taxis to other points within the zone. As of Game Update 1.1, this is not working as intended. We have found the issue preventing this from happening under server load and will be publishing an Emergency Patch to address the issue. We’re aiming to have this patch published early tomorrow morning (January 19th, 5 AM US CST).

In addition to these changes, we’ll be reducing the population cap on Ilum. This should help increase performance by requiring your client to render fewer characters on-screen at once.

Regarding Valor gains, with the 1.1 update, players now receive a base reward of 20 Valor per unique enemy player defeated in a short time, and this base reward is modified by the number of objectives that the player’s faction owns. The gains are rate limited per player killed, encouraging players to attack unique players, not to pursue vendettas. The Valor gains players can see over time will vary greatly depending on the activity level in the zone. This is expected.

To dispel a couple of rumors that have been seen today – there is no Valor gain from destroying turrets within enemy bases, and none from killing NPCs.

We encourage players to avoid Ilum until our patch is deployed. As a temporary measure we will be disabling taxi services which would normally take players into the Open World PvP area. However, players will still be able to taxi out of the area.

We will continue to monitor Ilum across all servers and will make further changes to gameplay if required. We welcome your feedback here on the Forums, but please ensure your feedback is constructive and specific. Feedback based on rumor does not help us isolate potential issues.

[Semihage]

To dispel a couple of rumors that have been seen today – there is no Valor gain from destroying turrets within enemy bases, and none from killing NPCs.

Can someone confirm this statement? Or is OP actually another fucking troll trying to FUD SWTOR?

[Ighox]

Can someone confirm this statement? Or is OP actually another fucking troll trying to FUD SWTOR?

You don't get anything from killing them, just by healing them.

[Semihage]

You don't get anything from killing them, just by healing them.

ROFLMAO.. I am suppose to believe this?

[schippie]

The statement is true atleast according to the CM http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=197991

Another thing is true that im no longer sub'ed.

[Ighox]

ROFLMAO.. I am suppose to believe this?

If you want to? I couldn't care less.

[Rolex Snob]

Lucky, my server is listed as "heavy" but its a ghost town....5 republics hiding in their base with 30 imps running around. You're lucky to get a kill every 20 minutes....

Was there for 2.5 hours and managed to kill 3 pubs total.

Where are these turrets you speak of? I'd love to farm them for a while...

[Gerion]

We’re aware that on some servers, either Republic or Empire groups have been capturing the Ilum control points, entering the enemy’s base and ‘camping’ the medcenters, preventing the opposite faction from leaving their base to recapture control points.

That has to be a joke right?

[Valeron]

Is there even one server that has a Republic majority?

[schippie]

We’re aware that on some servers, either Republic or Empire groups have been capturing the Ilum control points, entering the enemy’s base and ‘camping’ the medcenters, preventing the opposite faction from leaving their base to recapture control points.

That has to be a joke right?

No its not a joke since there first statement was that there was a " Possible " problem with Ilum pvp so..

Ah well last post before i get banned for saying stuff i should *waves* take care all and have fun with SWTOR while it lasts.