I've sent task force reports and GM calls, but I haven't posted it in the official forum. As that requires you to tie an account in, they may be upset at the information sharing and have positive identification of who shared it. Seems like a risky move.
Anyone else is welcome to, though.
Equipment Exploit
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Equipment Exploit
Not really on the same scale as this but I pretty much outlined the step by step process of replicating a duplication glitch on there and didn't get dicked
that said im not even confident that technical details get relayed to the JP side/devs at all
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Hmm when I get home I'll ask a GM about it. Even though he seemed real laxed about it.
If they didn't log the packets (seems impractical to me from a storage point of view), the server logs could still be used to pick out unusually high HQ rates.
They do log all packets, as was evident after a lot of less known exploits were fixed and the resulting bans. Can think of one situation where server logs were almost certainly insufficient, but packets would have been. How long they log for is questionable, in the case I'm thinking of it was only a few days.
Whether they are willing/capable of adequately parsing that much data, I don't know. I don't see them trying to pick out HQ rates because they could accidentally nail lucky people who only did a few synths. I wouldn't be surprised if they just fixed it and parsed the character db to ban anyone currently wearing inappropriate gear. Leviathan.Comeatmebro said: » Whether they are willing/capable of adequately parsing that much data, I don't know. I used to think this until I wrote someone a relatively innocuous addon that ended up getting them banned. It wasn't doing anything illegitimate either. I'm certain that they do parse logs on a regular basis looking for indications of sketchy activity. I doubt that they are currently looking for spikes in crafting rates currently, but it is easily possible to do this and be relatively confident in at least some of the exploiters. Asura.Kingnobody said: » So, if anyone happens to be lucky enough to get a few HQs, that's a reportable transaction in your mind? I better stop selling Meat Chiefkabobs then..... http://www.ffxiah.com/screenshots/79183 Bismarck.Laurelli said: » Asura.Kingnobody said: » So, if anyone happens to be lucky enough to get a few HQs, that's a reportable transaction in your mind? I better stop selling Meat Chiefkabobs then..... http://www.ffxiah.com/screenshots/79183 eslim said: » ha...... SE can run a scan for craft levels exceeding the current max and finding duplicated equipment used when the player executed a synthesis, might take weeks tho- the biggest question is how nice SE handles this situation among the community of players that still p GMs are the only victims here I mean, it doesn't have to be isolated to crafting either. Someone wearing 12 of any bodypiece on a job like BLU or MNK would make for a pretty amazing DD/tank hybrid in instanced areas. I don't think parsing for crafting is the right solution, but we'll see what they do.
Please, everyone knows that you should just exploit a brew from Abyssea and use it anywhere/everywhere. Who needs to wear 12 HQ bodies when you can just brew cheat your way.
Asura.Kingnobody said: » eslim said: » ha...... SE can run a scan for craft levels exceeding the current max and finding duplicated equipment used when the player executed a synthesis, might take weeks tho- the biggest question is how nice SE handles this situation among the community of players that still p GMs are the only victims here Asura.Kingnobody said: » Please, everyone knows that you should just exploit a brew from Abyssea and use it anywhere/everywhere. Who needs to wear 12 HQ bodies when you can just brew cheat your way. Brew is honestly weaker than 12 adhemar bonnet+1(path B).
+492 HP +372 STR +396 DEX +228 AGI +180 VIT +48% triple attack +672 attack +588 evasion +708 m.eva +1224 defense +72% crit damage +36 mdb capped subtle blow/haste if the set bonus is coded in a way that it applies, would be 24% critrate on top of all that (maybe toss in some samnuha tights since store tp would be pretty valuable with so little of it)
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Do this at your own risk. As Bro stated, the fixes and hammers come slowly. When ban waves happen (regularly and periodically) it's generally for an offense (or offenses) that happened months ago. It's one of those things where the person getting canned doesn't even remember what they did to warrant the stick in the first place.
Frankly, I don't see why people risk their accounts at all - especially people actively engaged in end game. It's just not worth losing it all. I think the general perception is there are no GM's that care anymore, or that the STF has been whittled down to 2-3 anti-hygienic guys sitting in their cubicles with empty pizza boxes strewn all over the place. But someone is pushing that big red button when you least expect it.
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Leviathan.Comeatmebro said: » Brew is honestly weaker than 12 adhemar bonnet+1(path B). +492 HP +372 STR +396 DEX +228 AGI +180 VIT +48% triple attack +672 attack +588 evasion +708 m.eva +1224 defense +72% crit damage +36 mdb capped subtle blow/haste if the set bonus is coded in a way that it applies, would be 24% critrate on top of all that Not your intent, but damn that was funny that it worked out that 12x "piece of gear" was better than a brew. If turning it into a serious set, I would assume ideal would be some combination of wristbands/bonnets. A GEO doing frailty and a BLU wearing a set like that could probably clear most relevant content. Still see it as a death sentence to use it though.
edit: Moonbow belt+1 would be pretty interesting too, especially if subtle blow II doesn't cap. Could give the mob 0 tp and still pump up stats pretty high with a half dozen bodies(does subtle blow apply to being hit as well? that'd be silly on anything without regain). Leviathan.Comeatmebro said: » Brew is honestly weaker than 12 adhemar bonnet+1(path B). +492 HP +372 STR +396 DEX +228 AGI +180 VIT +48% triple attack +672 attack +588 evasion +708 m.eva +1224 defense +72% crit damage +36 mdb capped subtle blow/haste if the set bonus is coded in a way that it applies, would be 24% critrate on top of all that (maybe toss in some samnuha tights since store tp would be pretty valuable with so little of it) Source Quote: HP+9999 MP+9999 STR+999 DEX+999 AGI+999 VIT+999 INT+999 MND+999 CHR+999 Att+9999 DEF+9999 MAB+999 MDB+999 Regen+300/tic Refresh+300/tic Regain+500/tic Where you basically WS every 2 seconds....and magical WS is key... And you consider that weaker than 1 item in 12 slots.... Shame on everyone here for forgetting onca suit
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a tick takes 3 seconds, so it's a free WS(or free ftp) every 6 sec
stats are still half as high, base damage still applies, and the m.evasion is sufficient to resist everything 1 brew in omen or master trial wouldn't get you very far, and in reisenjima it's barely enough to kill WoC and not enough to kill schah the gear would last the entire time and not be that far behind defensively Leviathan.Comeatmebro said: » a tick takes 3 seconds, so it's a free WS(or free ftp) every 6 sec stats are still half as high, base damage still applies, and the m.evasion is sufficient to resist everything 1 brew in omen or master trial wouldn't get you very far, and in reisenjima it's barely enough to kill WoC and not enough to kill schah the gear would last the entire time Aside from the gear being an actual exploit that exists and can be done now, if you could take a brew out of abyssea you would only be able to take one as it's rare marked. If you want to go back and forth that's your perogative, but you couldn't get more than 1 per char into omen and running laps for high tier escha would be much slower than killing them with the gear.
Encumbrance can be resisted, and using something like 9 onca suits or 12 bodypieces would give you more m.eva than using a normal set with bolster attune/vex.. Getting pretty far into the hypothetical here, though. These guys are in so much trouble in a year and a half! I wasn't around during the second salvage bans but all I can think about is how long SE took to respond with the first bans and blinkers (which wasn't necessarily bad, unless you were botting the cruor).
Fenrir.Snaps said: » I used to think this until I wrote someone a relatively innocuous addon that ended up getting them banned. Curious as to what it did? if buffactive.great_power or player.main_job == "WHM" then Fenrir.Skarwind said: » Is it too much to ask? I just wanna wear pants on my head. Makes sense, what commoner hat would fit Goku's hair?
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Am I the only one who thought of wearing Ochain and Aegis at the same time? /pldbrain.
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Been wondering how people are doing so much dps. I actually pondered the idea they were midcasting into crit items and post midcasting into stat items giving them both bonuses. Next time someone out DD's me by 50% I'll know they be hackin da packets!
Thanks for the info, I don't feel like I need 40 more items to catch up to their dps anymore.
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