The Rakghoul Plague Outbreak Event - Best Ending ever!

It can take weeks to figure out how to fix a bug like this, and it likely wasn't possible given the short duration of the event. There is no such thing as a PvP event in non PvP areas of a PvE server. You don't seem to get it, but the whole point of a PvE server is that you can't be forced to PvP when you don't want to.

And you are wrong. Getting infected with the plague didn't flag you. It only flagged you if you were infected when someone of the opposing faction died from the plague in your immediate vicinity. Players on a PvE server who don't PvP don't spend much time standing near players of the opposing faction and thus would not have encountered this bug.

Which side do you play for ? I'm curious how badily you got ran over. During the course of the week our server had everything from camps, cooperation, backstabbing and griefers. I handled it all, got screwed sometimes and was on top some times. But I enjoyed it all, I think that's something you guys complaining and trying to get innocent players in trouble lack. Shrug it off, laugh and then go have cookies and milk. It's really calming

I'm sure those republic players you killed were dark side alligned because us light siders don't do those kinds of heinous acts. Traitors always do pay a price in the end.

It's a glitch. Bioware's own description of a PVE server reads thus:

Player vs. Environment (PvE) - In Star Wars™: The Old Republic™, Player vs. Environment servers serve as the "default." On these servers, you have the option to role-play as your character, and player- vs.- player fights must be agreed to by both sides.

If one side is being flagged and forced to engage in PVP against their will it isn't working as intended per that description.

Also, being infected doesn't flag you. Being infected by a member of the opposite faction does flag you. The reason many people didn't know that is they hadn't stood next to someone from the opposite faction when they exploded and learned the hard way. I don't see why that's difficult to believe. I think perhaps you play on a PVP server and don't understand the problem at hand. That's why you mistakenly believe that simply being infected flags you for PVP when it does not.

This is what your not getting. You had a quest to infect others, so infecting others is clearly ok. If your infected it flags you for pvp, this was not removed during the many many downtimes. So, not a bug. Lastly 2k or free vaccine makes you immune. Just let the rage go or come to the dark side.

You clearly don't understand the concept of a PvE server. I wasn't personally affected by this because I knew of the bug. I was flagged PvP by my choice for most of the night. But I play on a PvE server, and I understand that many people who play on a PvE server don't want to PvP. If they didn't toggle their PvP flag, it was not their fault. On a PvE server, you have to agree to PvP. When you go into PvP areas, you get a big warning and a 10 second countdown that you will be flagged if you don't turn back. Flagging someone against their will goes against the very concept of a PvE server. Word eventually got out on the general chat, but not before quite a few people were flagged against their will. Again, this isn't a new concept. This kind of thing can get you banned in an MMO.

So sitting in a circle around the pvp vendor waiting to explode is beneficial because you get samples? right and I'm santa clause. It would be much easier to stand by the pvp vendor on the fleet to get dna samples and get infected.

Because having gear on different sides really matters now considering you can just mail stuff back and forth between imp and pub side. As a matter of fact their is no reason to use pub or neutral auction houses anymore. Just mail pub stuff to imp side sell on the imp auction house. Gear is now mutual. Stupid Argument. I bought hundreds of rakghoul samples on the imp side and transferred them to my pub characters because our economy is weak on pub side. I now have 14 green/black crystals 2 pets and 6/8 infected companions(thanks imps).

Irrelevant. The purpose of a PvE server is precisely that a player cannot be forced into a PvP conflict without his explicit consent. Without actively trying to become PvP flagged, a player on a PvE server should be immune to all PvP. On a PvE server, PvP immuity is the default, and should not be dependent on the player having to take active steps to keep that immunity. Therefore, any action that flags such a player for PvP against his will is qualified as an exploit.

The "If it was a glitch it would have been fixed" argument does not stand. The matter
1) might not have been trivial to fix
2) only affected a part of the population(PvE servers)
3) was only temporary anyway, so not worth the resources needed to fix it.

That does not make the exploit legit however.

Amatuers on your server. We had a bounty hunter using prob scan to wipe stealth and lots and lots of aoe. Glad you got your crystal(s)

I did too!! This is the very reason I find the complainers hard to believe.

Your calling it a glitch, was it labeled a glitch by bw ? Or fixed by them ? No..??? Yeah you and the others are wrong.