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Wow, right before Fan Festival, too. I really, REALLY, hope that they serve out the appetizers with bannings to the ones who have the balls to show up.
I would guess either humble pie or crow, and since revenge is a dish best served cold, it probably won't be heated. They may toss in some cherry muffins for good measure.
As many said, how many are banned depends on how many used this exploit and who is banned probably depends on where they exploited it.
* If a
significant staggering number of players exploited Salvage, they may not get banned. They likely would get a severe suspension and the equivalent of 2 strikes (1 more strike and they're perma-banned). As the enmity mechanics co-discoverer said, it depends on the bottom line. RMT get banned in huge numbers because while they are paying players, they drive away other players and they're also not playing the game for fun, they're treating it like pimp treats a *****, exploiting them for the money.
* If it's a small number, odds are they'll be banned.
* Who gets banned depends on if SE has the records to track which groups engaged in tripling drops.
* Nyzul drops- probably in same boat as Salvage.
* Doomvoid NM duplicators, if anybody gets banned, it will be them since their goods are sellable. People have made the if-it-affects-the-economy argument, and this would be the part of the exploit that had the biggest affect on the economy. Salvage triple-drops had a secondary/derivative effect (but still a discernable effect).
Should they be banned? Yep! Just like the Tavnazia resale people, the cherry muffin people, and the few other exploits there've been, they egregiously exploited a bug, but it will all depend on the scale. Maybe they can round them all up and make them do Salvage runs in Mordion Gaol. Or, they could have left the exploit up, but whenever it is used, it triggers a NM to spawn, the Troll Destroyer model, which would have one of his hammer moves modified to be Banhammer! where he swings it around and insta-bans everyone hit by it. That or a Sandworm, GIGO (garbage in- garbage out), that uses Doomvoid on the group, but doesn't link to any zone, just deletion.
So, has the exploit pretty much been confirmed to be doing a reverse-Voltron with the alliance? And what was up with LordWafik's comments in the BG thread about people warping from Sky to Salvage with a certain title? Was that a joke (that pretty much fell flat), or was there some other element to the exploit?
Anyone know why they also patched the 5 Assault zones + Ashu Talif? The assaults all don't involve alliances, unless it was just that the exploit existed there too and though there wasn't really much to exploit there, they just wanted to fix the whole thing.