I Did something really stupid! Help please!

[Ameroth]

Re: I Did something really stupid! Help please!

How is it stupid? It's not like anyone's going to get banned for giving themselves an LS sack.

Can't say that 100%. A glitch is a glitch and the ToS specifically states exploiting those is a No No.

[Eohmer]

Re: I Did something really stupid! Help please!

How is it stupid?

Are you refering to the mistake, or "the fix"?

[Feba]

Re: I Did something really stupid! Help please!

To sacking yourself.

And Ameroth, this is not really a glitch, nowhere near as much of a glitch as Utsusemi tanking...

[Eohmer]

Re: I Did something really stupid! Help please!

To sacking yourself.

Heh... go sack yourself! :D

[Feba]

Re: I Did something really stupid! Help please!

Those responsible for sacking the mule, have been sacked?

[Ameroth]

Re: I Did something really stupid! Help please!

And Ameroth, this is not really a glitch, nowhere near as much of a glitch as Utsusemi tanking...

So using an game ability in a different fashion than SE anticipated is worse than taking advantage of latency issues on the server. Don't get me wrong, I don't think this 'bug', 'glitch', 'fix', or whatever you wanna call it is all that big a deal, but it leans toward an exploit to a glitch, and could be a bad thing.

[Eohmer]

Re: I Did something really stupid! Help please!

Those responsible for sacking the mule, have been sacked?

[Macht]

Re: I Did something really stupid! Help please!

I doubt they'd care much about this one. It isn't completly a glitch it's just networking 'physics'. From the moment of disconnection the network will not close the session for 60 seconds, it doesn't declare the session dead for 120 seconds, and it doesn't remove the IP from it's active tables till 240 seconds pass.

So to put it short the game still see's a disconnected character for 60 seconds from the point that it detects the disconnect. About all you can do with that is do these kind of things, for glitches it's generally illegal if you get some sort of monotary gain. This one doesn't really give you any advantage, the time window to even do much with it is so short it isn't viable for any purpose. On top of that the server will still validate anything that happens to the character during that time, which is why players can come back to a dead character when they get disconnected.

[Feba]

Re: I Did something really stupid! Help please!

My point is, it might not be working exactly as SE intended, but it still falls into the "It's a feature, not a bug!" category.

[Macht]

Re: I Did something really stupid! Help please!

My point is, it might not be working exactly as SE intended, but it still falls into the "It's a feature, not a bug!" category.

lol, well yeah basically. The only way I could see someone exploiting this is if a person found a way to force another IP off the session. Then if they found a way to get the disconnected player's character to trade items, then they could take advantage.

Then it would be force disconnect, steal items, and when player gets back he won't be able to do anything to reclaim. System will say he legally traded it. That is the worst, that is also a very iffy possibility.