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Kill swapping isn't an exploit according to BW. If you read Reddit there was a post about this a fee days ago.

Kill swapping isn't an exploit according to BW. If you read Reddit there was a post about this a fee days ago.

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This is a detailed write-up and my opinions on what has recently started on my server.
I was going to reply with it to another post, but I feel this issue deserves it's own Topic.
The reason WHY I'm including detailed directions: Unless every server is threatened by this blatant abuse.. I don't feel EA and BW will actually fix the problem.


Yesterday on my server they started kill swapping.
Each side would go to the southern republic res point.
They will then each stack up and take turns killing each other with aoes.

You have to wait 3 minutes between each death to get credit.
Since there are more imperials they get the objective bonus valor whereas the pubs get more kills.

The funny thing is the amount of exploiting going on.
See when you die and release, if you type /stuck you are automatically teleported back to the place where you died.

Now there are people who got 7+ ranks yesterday - completely circumventing the work that goes into earning the rank Battlemaster and the rewards for said work.

The excuse to start this little Valor farm was the weekly (Which I can completely understand - it sucks and Ilum as a whole is horribly implemented)
But now it has turned into a daily event which I feel is going to destroy PvP on my server.

The reasons why I believe this is harmful:
First, it's going to kill player retention.
It's like using a cheat code and beating a game. If there is no longer any goal to strive for, what do you think is going to keep pvpers in a game?
They will do dailies and that's probably it.

Second, this is going to hurt WZ participation.
Already today out of the 5 Warzones I've joined, 3 ended after 2 minutes due to lack of members.
The only 2 that did pan out were compromised of premades I believe. Before today this would happen maybe once every 2 days of steady WZ grinding. Coincidence?
Why que up if you can get almost a Thousand Valor per minute?

Third, it is just plain exploitation of a game mechanic.
If nothing else using /stuck to teleport to your last location is abusing a bug.


Now do I think people should be banned for this?
No.
That would be effing stupid.
Banning people for taking a shortcut from the tedious pvp grind would be a horrible business move. They would just quit and find a game with better pvp.

What needs to happen is actually FIX ILUM!

There have been some Great ideas on how to do this. There's no need to give a detailed outline of what I think Ilum should be. However, what it should NOT be is kill trading or Objective Trading. The ONLY excuse to go to this zone is a champion or battlemaster bag.
That issue needs to be addressed.

But this.
What we have right now.
This is going to completely destroy any pvp community you have left on this game. Which I'm going to guess is about 1/4th to 1/3rd of your playerbase.

Just watch guys. The moment you start seeing organized swaps on your server - watch the difference in your pvp experience.

they should just blow up ilum, nothing good has come out of that planet except exploits

objective trading before patch
spawn farming after patch
kill trading after patch
lvl 15 bots farming chests all day



just blow up ilum until their 'world best' pvp team can figure out how to make it work, and put extra WZ daily quests to replace the ilum ones