factions are a mess-

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Overall Faction Guild Rankings
Guild Faction Kill Points
Osaka Lover Shadowlords - Asuka 785034561
Kamikaze Gang Dan True Britannians - Asuka 394216184
NOVICE! True Britannians - Asuka 255847408
Nande Shinda!?!?!? True Britannians - Asuka 91785438
Giri Giri Boys' Minax - Asuka 85995537
ddwwwwwwwwwwwwww True Britannians - Asuka 71568915
pingatya Shadowlords - Asuka 48087006
last alliance uo Council of Mages - Asuka 45142714
Kiss ga Suki Minax - Asuka 10653829


Overall Faction Member Rankings
Member Faction Kill Points
gg True Britannians - Asuka 957294358
hh True Britannians - Asuka 785699318
ii True Britannians - Asuka 707129388
JJ True Britannians - Asuka 636416448
Igital True Britannians - Asuka 579941911
Kiku True Britannians - Asuka 575188578
Chaos True Britannians - Asuka 572980936
KK True Britannians - Asuka 572774804
LL True Britannians - Asuka 515497322
LL True Britannians - Asuka 463947592
Hit True Britannians - Asuka 418369946
k k True Britannians - Asuka 417552832
Bibi Shadowlords - Asuka 379328021
jjj True Britannians - Asuka 375797550
iii True Britannians - Asuka 338217792
hhh True Britannians - Asuka 304396016
AKUTOU Shadowlords - Asuka 289584162
ggg True Britannians - Asuka 273956412
Lim True Britannians - Asuka 268204785
rara True Britannians - Asuka 246379992

 

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http://town.uo.com/factions/

 

[Lady_Calina]

That's just ridiculous.

 

[Freelsy]

Now what im wondering is, did the system give them silver equivalent to the amount of points they gained *scratches chin*

 

[Kellgory]

Yeah, Houston, I think we have a problem. At least their not doing something toooo obvious. Hopefully this doesn't start creeping over to other shards.

 

[DevilsOwn]

uhhmmmm somebody wanna let the slow learner in on what's happened here? I posted this on the Legends forums on 11/22

linky: http://vboards.stratics.com/showthread.php?t=113721


Guild Faction Kill Points
Phoenix Burning Council of Mages - AOL Legends 3269
PvP Prodigies Council of Mages - Pacific 1453
Reign of Tyranny Minax - Chesapeake 1399
Visiofelicitaphiliacs Shadowlords - Catskills 1252
Kill @n Sight Shadowlords - Napa Valley 1184
Day Walkers Shadowlords - Lake Austin 930
Kiss ga Suki Minax - Asuka 920
The 9 - Minax- Europa 917
Funky Fresh Boyz Minax - Origin 838
Mondain's Arch Demons Minax - Lake Superior 829
WorKed n MerKed! Shadowlords - Pacific 812
X78 Minax - Formosa 800
BROTHERS N ARMS FACTION Shadowlords - AOL Legends 795
Chivalries Kingdom Demesnes Council of Mages - Sakura 782
Legends of the Golden Hero True Britannians - Formosa 771
Oceania's PK's True Britannians - Oceania 744
Providing Vast Mayhem Shadowlords - Baja 727
Crimson Tails Shadowlords - Baja 710
Keepers 0f Chaos Shadowlords - Siege Perilous 688
Gods Of Inferno- Council of Mages - Europa 685

 

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it's an exploit- something with faction trap crafters

 

[drinkbeerallday]

unfortunately, instead of focusing on fixing the problem, EA will probably just start banning people.

 

[Kellgory]

Fix the exploit and wipe all points for those guilds or people involved before everyone starts doing it.

 

[JC the Builder]

it's an exploit- something with faction trap crafters

Faction traps don't give kill points. That should not be the cause.

 

[Flutter]

You get double points for killing an opposing faction chaos vs order. You get 3X points for doing so in a faction city.
It's simple math really. Those characters with 3 character names (that you see on the main page linked above) are all faction farming characters.

Add that to the faction trap bug mentioned above and yea... millions of points over time.

 

[SixUnder]

no.

this happened over night.

one guild on a nobody shard had 3000 points.

next day...

askuka had 5 billiob between them.

wipe the shard, mass ban the guild imho.

 

[Nystul]

I'd love for someone to do the "simple math" and prove how it could be done overnight like they did. Why? Because it's not possible. You would have to factor in time for joining dummy characters, owning/holding sigils, getting into the correct towns for the points, ressing, timing out, more moving around, placing traps, etc.

When its literally let's see...

12,327,668,118 points

out of ONLY the first 20 characters...


lol right....

 

[Maplestone]

If it's an exploit of a killpoint bonus that allows you multiply skill poiints, it would grow very rapidly. If you a had a scheme where it takes a person 1 hour to double kill points, they could go from 1 to 12,327,668,118 in 33.5 hours.

 

[Nystul]

That's quite a lot of ifs :X.

Just wonder what EA will do lol.

 

[Maplestone]

Yes, it is a lot of ifs.

 

[weins201]

A few chars from on faction kill all the chars in another oppsoing guild faction say 25 chars each.

each char will get 3 points.

Now visa versa.

now all those chars donate their points to another char and 25 x 1 = 25 since they cannot donate all points until rank 10.

but that give a char that hanst been killed 25 points.

now all after they all do this on both side they go kill that one char.

Once this get to the level that the points ate great enought to make the 10% X 3 worth somthing????


Lets say the one geting killed had 3867 (not alot) that means each of the chars who have donated down to 0 would get 38x3 points = 114 x 25 = 2850

add that to the 3867 = 6717

next time arouns 67 X 3 = 201 x 25 = 5025 + 6717 = 11742

soo next time 117 X 3 = 351 x 25 = 8775 + 11742 = 20517

and so on and so forth this will grow exponetially

At one poitn a few day ago a char on assuka had 888888 some odd points

lets do the math

a char with 0 kill him in a war zone from an opsing faction

888888 x 10% = 8888.88 rounded to 8889 X 3 = 26667 now take the same 25 chars and they all donate back to a char in their guild with same point structure 26667 x 25 = 666675 + 888888 = 1,555,563

rinse and repeat

1,555,563 x 10% = 155,556 x 3 = 466668 x 25 = 11,666,700

I hope this explains it to you all.


Since you can donate point to one of the 25 each time that means two opposing guils with 25 chars in each could do this 25 time every 24 hours



i think its quit extraoridinary that they figured this out so fast.

to bad only fix will be to whipe out everyone points. and revert back to no bonuse for this event .



I will do this for the lowet on the scale above

246379992 X 10% = 24637999 x 3 = 73913997 x 25 = 1,847,849,925

 

[Tina Small]

If you add up the point totals for the top 10 characters listed in each of Asuka's factions, you get 8,146,495,035 kill points from just 40 characters. If you do the same on Yamato, you get 6,350,297,534 kill points for just 40 characters. Because only the top 10 characters for each faction are listed, the total kill points on these shards are actually higher than these numbers indicate.

Many of these "top 40" characters on each shard are not in guilds and appear to be either crafters or new characters that are probably acting as point holders.

Looking at the figures that are still up this morning, it looks like it's only Asuka and Yamato so far that have these insane numbers of kill points.

 

[SixUnder]

If you add up the point totals for the top 10 characters listed in each of Asuka's factions, you get 8,146,495,035 kill points from just 40 characters. If you do the same on Yamato, you get 6,350,297,534 kill points for just 40 characters. Because only the top 10 characters for each faction are listed, the total kill points on these shards are actually higher than these numbers indicate.

Many of these "top 40" characters on each shard are not in guilds and appear to be either crafters or new characters that are probably acting as point holders.

Looking at the figures that are still up this morning, it looks like it's only Asuka and Yamato so far that have these insane numbers of kill points.

exactly.

it is envolved with faction traps has nothing to do with honoring points. actually figured out how they did it, i sent a pm to devs. so we shall wait and see.

 

[drawn]

Faction traps don't give kill points. That should not be the cause.

on the contrary

 

[weins201]

Read my above post if you dont understand how this can be acconplished.

SIMPLE MATH

no tricks, no trap exploits, nothing fancy just MATH

 

[Tina Small]

Read my above post if you dont understand how this can be acconplished.

SIMPLE MATH

no tricks, no trap exploits, nothing fancy just MATH

Do you have any explanation for why the mushrooming numbers are not happening on other shards?

 

[Lord Kotan]

it's an exploit- something with faction trap crafters

is it an exploit for the trapper to kill an entire opposing Choas/Order faction to get mass points? thought they were supposed to get points (dunno if they do).


Question is... were alt accounts really supposed to be used as farm tools this way?

 

[JC the Builder]

on the contrary

Really? When did that go in?

 

[Flutter]

on the contrary

Really? When did that go in?

Pretty sure it's a bug we shouldn't be posting about.
Maybe not... but I'd ask a mod first.

 

[5% Luck]

My 1st impression is that people were complaining about ranks being to easy to obtain. I"think" points are distributed by order of scale meaning the more points on a shard/faction means harder to get points. This may just be a devs quick fix to the easy point problem.

 

[Arabella]

Faction traps don't give kill points. That should not be the cause.

Faction Traps are only suppose to give you silver not points JC. I placed some the other day and only received silver for them.

Wipe all points out and start all over again would be a good thing. But since the asian shards always get all the good stuff (11th anniversary items and all those other nice goodies), I don't see much happening to those shards, other then a smack on the hand. Just another reason why the Devs, should take more time and think out these events, there is always one group that takes advantage of it and then the rest of us pay.

 

[weins201]

Smalls its simple guild arnt reading what I am saying and trying it out.

 

[Tina Small]

Smalls its simple guild arnt reading what I am saying and trying it out.

I just checked and the total kill points on Asuka for the top 10 characters in each of the four factions (40 characters) is now up to 8,211,069,578 points, a gain of 64,574,543 points since yesterday morning. And on Yamato, the total kill points for the top 10 characters in each of the four factions is now up to 6,354,519,570 points, a gain of 4,222,036 points since yesterday morning.

Keep telling yourself that this is all legitimate. I really doubt that it is when you see stuff like this:

• On Asuka, only five of the top 20 individuals in SL and TB look like playable characters. All the rest are in death robes and the characters have odd names and no skills whatsoever.
• On Yamato, two of the top three characters in Minax are crafters; the top characters in SL all have names like hh, ii, jj and are in death robes and have no skills; and in TB it's the same goofy naming convention for the most part, not one of the top 10 individuals has a GMd skill and most show up in death robes.

Creating faction traps has never awarded the tinker with kill points or silver. It's been a while since I've actually placed any faction traps myself, but I'm fairly confident that at best, you only got silver in varying amounts depending on whether the trap only injured (20 silver) or outright killed (40 silver) an enemy character that had not recently run over traps you'd placed.

The Publish 56 notes (http://www.uoherald.com/news/news.php?newsid=454) make no mention of a change involving kill points being credited to the placer or the creater of a trap deed.

And yet, earlier this week someone posted in the Factions forum that there's a "glitch" involving faction traps that allows you to get your rank up within days with no hand-to-hand killing. Rank is supposed to be dependent on kill points, so I have to assume that the person who made the post about this wondrous "glitch," as he called it, was implying that kill points were being awarded in connection with using trap deeds.

I checked the faction rankings for all the shards this morning and this is what I found for kill point totals for the top character on each shard: (Note: Vet characters have at least 700 real skill points.)

Arirang 118 (vet character)
Asuka 957,294,358 (non-vet character)
Atlantic 946 (non-vet character with one GM skill)
Baja 273 (vet character)
Balhae 216 (non-vet character with 3 GM skills showing)
Catskills 522 (vet character)
Chesapeake 133 (vet character)
Drachenfels 279 (vet character)
Europa 509 (vet character)
Formosa 301 (vet character)
Great Lakes 542 (vet character)
Hokuto 483 (vet character)
Izumo 591 (vet character)
Lake Austin 1,050 (vet character)
Lake Superior 240 (non-vet character)
Legends 657 (non-vet character)
Mizuho 417 (vet character)
Mugen 101 (vet character)
Napa Valley 877 (vet character)
Oceania 442 (non-vet character with 3 GM skills showing)
Origin 129 (non-vet character with 3 GM skills showing)
Pacific 663 (non-vet character)
Sakura 200 (vet character)
Siege Perilous 213 (vet character)
Sonoma 460 (non-vet character)
Wakoku 708 (non-vet character with 3 GM skills showing)
Yamato 1,223,468,710 (vet with 3 GM crafting skills showing)

Quite a few shards had active factions before last summer and many of those folks are still around. Those individuals watched and waited as things developed leading up to Publish 56. They aren't stupid people, either. And yet, here we sit now with only TWO shards where the top character on the shard has a mind-boggling number of kill points.

I find it hard to believe that all the people who have been involved in factions over the years and all the folks who jumped into factions this summer in anticipation of Publish 56 are all that dense that they can't figure out how to vastly expand their kill point totals if all it takes is the inter-faction cooperation and "simple math" you describe. No, I am pretty confident that something hokey is or was done on Asuka and Yamato to produce this mind-blowing amounts of kill points.

 

[weins201]

go create a new account and donate all your point to one char then create another account and kill like i say and see how fast they climb.

they are simply exploiting the war zone, and opposing factin kill point bonuses.


I Spelled it out to you all.

I am sorry if oyu don't accept it.

I am also glad that you are not exploiting it, it shows some honor.

 

[^Wolfie^]

go create a new account and donate all your point to one char then create another account and kill like i say and see how fast they climb.

they are simply exploiting the war zone, and opposing factin kill point bonuses.


I Spelled it out to you all.

I am sorry if oyu don't accept it.

I am also glad that you are not exploiting it, it shows some honor.

New acct/players cannot join factions until so many days old?!?

 

[Sephy]

go create a new account and donate all your point to one char then create another account and kill like i say and see how fast they climb.

they are simply exploiting the war zone, and opposing factin kill point bonuses.


I Spelled it out to you all.

I am sorry if oyu don't accept it.

I am also glad that you are not exploiting it, it shows some honor.

ok, you go do this, then show us the results? other wise stop chatting rubbish, I know how its done, its not that hard to do, there isnt really a point in doing this. you cant be banned for it, osi are fixxing it..

so if thats the way you think its being done ( and it isnt lol ) then go do it and stop trying to talk your self up...

jeesh

 

[Tina Small]

New acct/players cannot join factions until so many days old?!?

The 15-day rule only lasted a few months, Wolfie. I believe it went away about the time they started letting you have multiple characters from the same account in the same faction on one shard. I think the replacement rule was that only one char from the account can vote and must be at least 15 days old.

 

[Tina Small]

I am also glad that you are not exploiting it, it shows some honor.

I could exploit the hell out of it with all the accounts I have, but I don't see the point.

 

[S.W.A.T]

go create a new account and donate all your point to one char then create another account and kill like i say and see how fast they climb.

they are simply exploiting the war zone, and opposing factin kill point bonuses.


I Spelled it out to you all.

I am sorry if oyu don't accept it.

I am also glad that you are not exploiting it, it shows some honor.

Actually, this is just what LOLz (Aka Vip) on Lake Austin were doing just yesterday. They went from 12 hundred to 120k points in just a few hours (Guild Points Combined)

 

[Tina Small]

The 15-day rule only lasted a few months, Wolfie. I believe it went away about the time they started letting you have multiple characters from the same account in the same faction on one shard. I think the replacement rule was that only one char from the account can vote and must be at least 15 days old.

Wolfie, I dug through the publish notes and what I stated above about the 15-day rule is inaccurate. It was a 30-day requirement, but only lasted a few months (November to May). Under current rules, there's no 30 day age requirement to be able to vote or run for election, but only one character per account per shard can vote or run in the faction elections. "Young" characters cannot be in factions. Better details are here in this post on the faction forum: http://vboards.stratics.com/showthread.php?p=999921&posted=1#post999921 .