Why? We are talking about EA Games and the UO american dev team here... you should NOT be shocked at all. What's worse I'm more than certain NO one will be banned for it.. which is sad... I did the puzzle room today on 6 of my 8 accounts and I can say in the time it took me to do it.... i saw at the VERY least 12 people in there exploiting...
And yet they've known about it for about a month... some rumors indicate they've known about it since Beta. So the question is, where does inaction become creative use of game mechanics?
would that be the rooms with the colored floors? If so, no thanks, as a colorblind person, just trying to get in the room (third puzzle box) is a problem at least for me. Silence is not deafening to me, as a long time p(l)ayer, I expect this from whatever comapny is in charge. I will not use the exploit, nor do I know how to do it. Since I am down to my original account, used to have 7 accounts that I paid for other people but as they left, I closed them out, so I am not going to risk my only account.
I do not mean this be insensitive, but as a colorblind person, you must be used to having to deal with certain conventions and finding a way around them in order to function properly. Stop lights being the most obvious example. What I would say is that they do provide textual information, and you could, through trial and error, map out the tiles of that room in a manner that you could functionally complete the puzzle. I understand it wouldn't be enjoyable, necessarily, but that's part of my point...
I understand that, but I always hold faith that the DevTeam will improve in these regards. To that extent, while we could get into a long debate about what happened between ML and SA and what else was being done in/around KR since SA was supposedly being worked on/partly complete at that time, I will say simply that I think they did a hell of a job with SA, and while there are some tweaks necessary, I definitely have had a lot of faith restored in the DevTeam with regard to expansion quality and game content.
Now THATS a good idea. Peaple should do that on every shard. If that didn`t get something done about it,you could at least find some 3.0 taming SoT`s for a cool 100k eventually.
I asked them to add the tag to the ores for the same reason, I'm color blind and couldn't tell the ore colors apart either. Now if I could convince them to add the same tag to the anvil Bod rewards we'd be set...
UO is actually making headway in making UO color vision deprived friendly. They've made several changes specifically designed with the color blind in mind, some without prompting by any players. I'm hoping they keep up with this trend. One you may not know of is the Salvage Bag. It was originally slated to be a dark red, but luckily I was in the beta testing at that time and asked that they use a blue instead so the bag wouldn't be so hard to see in a backpack. I really wish I'd seen the color rooms in beta as well. I'd have made different suggestions so that we wouldn't have pink and white in the same room.
I heard from a friend that read a forum that said people were saying how glad they were that one of these exploits was resulting in an immediate perma-ban should GMs who are camping the puzzle-room (although, perhaps only on certain shards) catch you doing it.
You can cheat your way through the experimental room it's called activating the gem and killing yourself then walking to the other end with a friend to res you. Not so much cheating as creative thinking and willingness to commit suicide but still allows you to not have to run around and is an alternative for anyone without a decent connection.
I don't even know how to do the exploit so I am not defending those that do it intentionally, yet remember not everyone who plays UO reads Stratics. Some people might seriously be thinking, "oh hey this is cool I can get more then a puzzle a day". Banning for this would be a mistake IMO, unless someone is sharing the exploit in game or admitting to knowingly doing it in-game.
I don't, that is stupid, if I did not read Stratics and I figured out the exploit, I would have definitely thought, "cool I can get more puzzles." being perma-banned for that is beyond idiotic.I heard from a friend that read a forum that said people were saying how glad they were that one of these exploits was resulting in an immediate perma-ban should GMs who are camping the puzzle-room (although, perhaps only on certain shards) catch you doing it.
I hope its true
Of course, the problem with that is that (1) it causes issues for people who are not colorlind... now if it's the result of a colorblind setting mode, fine, but if say they chose neon orange for warm and chartreuse for cold, it might be questionable to the norm concepts for color associations.
And yet, somewhere in the back of your mind, you must say, "I know I'm only supposed to do this once per day." That you think it's "cool" that you can get more doesn't change the fact that you know the intent of the design.
Of course, but a perma-ban for that? You really think that is fine and cool? 24 Hour ban or a verbal warning from a GM so the person KNOWS, then you can start harsher bans. Yet, we seem to have GM's with shaky trigger fingers... if the perma-ban comment was true.
Which is interesting in itself as the only way we know what was intended is to be the DEV themselves who made it. Game mechanic allows 1 per character per day which means if you have 2 accounts you can do it 14 times per day. Now if game mechanic changed and allowed more times which it looks to be the case how are we not being the DEVs and nothing explicit being changed magicaly know that we shouldn't do it. Is it a moral code we feel yet we like when we see torture and kill enemies so our morals are all screwed up anyway.
Sounds good to me.
We know it because when you try to do it more than once, the game itself tells you that you cannot. That someone found a creative way around it does not mean that suddenly the intent is, "Oh, well, once per day except if you do this particular thing." We all know the true meaning of that situation is "There's a bug and using it is exploiting it."
The code didn't change at all. And the "it's just a creative use of game mechanics" as the excuse for exploiting just doesn't fly.
I don't honestly expect any bans, except perhaps for the worst offenders, those doing the puzzle dozens of times a day...
You could have turned the 'no recall' zone off as well.
Just logged into LA on a character in the puzzle room and the entry was sealed with stone. Said out of order. Someone who said it was not his/her home shard explained the reasons. Had to use help stuck feature to leave. They need to fix this. The char that was there specifically said that the issue was known during Beta -- not sure if he/she knew that first hand or just heard it. I was glad to have my few attempts per day for a SoT. Too bad I missed out on a taming one.
Dude, no. Just... no. The beta testers reported it. It was just never fixed.
