The Rakghoul Plague Outbreak Event - Best Ending ever!

"To keep the Service a compliant, fun, fair and safe gaming environment for everyone, you may not engage in any of the following behavior:

17. Exploit any bug in the Service to gain unfair advantage in the game and/or communicate the existence of any such bug (either directly or through the public posting) to any other user of the Service."

We aren't allowed to share the existance of exploits, because it would educate others who might decide to try it out before it's fixed. Bioware telling us about it before they roll out a fix would have the same effect (or possibly a greater one, as it would be an official, attention-grabbing post), and thus be something they would avoid doing.

It's not that it would make people do it, it's that it would spread the knowledge of it, essentially enabling more exploiters.

I will try one last time because I really want you to get this even though I am increasingly coming to believe that you lack the capacity to understand.

Your whole thing about force storm causing this....that actually was happening a couple months ago. Bioware fixed it after a while, but it did take a while to fix because those kinds of technical issues can be difficult to resolve. The people who exploited that glitch (and probably claimed the whole time that it wasn't a glitch or else Bioware would have fixed it already exactly as you are doing now) eventually had their accounts banned because they know they aren't supposed to circumvent the rules of a PVE server that specify someone must agree to PVP by flagging themselves.

This glitch is obviously a recurrence of the glitch that was causing aoe abilities to unintentionally flag. This is new code and we know it never got tested b/c the event was a surprise.

They didn't fix it because it would have taken too much effort to fix given the short duration of the event and they didn't mention it because they don't advertise exploits because they don't want to inform people on how they can break the rules.

As far as your claim that the smart money is on you...have you noticed that you are pretty much the only person in this thread that isn't comprehending this? Do you think that maybe...just maybe everyone else is understanding this very basic and very simple idea that anytime you force someone to PVP on a PVE server you are breaking the rules.

This "theme" of pvp isn't present. It's not a matter of it being difficult to detect....it simply isn't present. I participated in the event every single day. I did the dailies where people of both factions were trying to complete their objectives and I even killed a world boss. Guess how many of those objectives required any measure of pvp? Zero...not one. Do you know how many times I got flagged for PVP in all of that? It happened once. I was standing at the vendor the first day and someone happened to explode on me.

That isn't a theme dude. That is a glitch.

Well said. I agree with this completely, and... I can't stop laughing when people ambush me while PVP-flagged (I play on a PVE server since I like to choose when to be in danger) get owned, then combat-stealth away to try to escape. Overall however I loved that it was getting people to (purposefully) flag for PVP with so many areas imps/repubs were crossing paths... I got some great spontaneous fights in and had fun with it.

I said pvp based, meaning involving pvp. I didn't say it was an event made only for pvpers, I never made that claim. It was an event that involved pvp and the proof of it is the expertise gem, the ffa pvp area and daily quest location. Where is the pve area end boss ? Oh we didn't get one.

Thank you for pointing this out. It was sadly not the case with a couple of hours left before server down that we could get enough people to guard the vendor (unlike the case in some previous posts, when our Pub side retook the vendor from the Imps camping it, we did things like.....dance with our companions rather than attempt to grief the Imps coming to peacefully use the vendor. Because slaughtering unsuspecting people or lowbies is just.....not much fun). They should have put two vendors near the quest dropboxes. Level 50's camping the 20-somethings (and the lone level 50's) that were doing the quests on faction imbalanced servers where we could rarely field opposing forces just made the event more of a trial than a fun thing to do. And I did get everything I wanted with the exception of using my last 20 DNA for an additional companion lockbox. Just found it rather sad that the Imperials on our server (they did this all week, but not in Ops numbers, so we could counter it) found it necessary to deny Pubs the chance to use the vendor on a time-limited event ending in a very brief period. Doesn't prove anything but how childish they were. I had Imps apologizing in general chat and whisper to my small imperial who tried to make it in time with my DNA samples when it became clear begging and pleading would have no result. Pity a few jerks have to spoil things in general for people at the last hour. And here's hoping the vendor, when it comes back, is placed in multiple faction neutral locations. Piss poor design choice unless they wanted to encourage griefing.

Hi, you enjoy griefing, that's obvious. The Internet allows you to behave like that. I don't mind what happens on a PVP server but what you did there just highlights massive flaws of the implementation of PVP flagging on PVE servers.

post something on THIS EVENT! Otherwise your spamming the same nonsense. If events don't challenge players in different ways then they'll all be boring and not worth doing. Do you guys seriously see no merit in banding together and defeating the enemy blocking your path ? I love it when players come together and do that, this was engineered to do that. Again post something they've said about this event, if you were right, then why havent they ? According to you it's clearly against tos, right ? why havent they confirmed it ? Big surprise.

heh, Thanks for that. I needed the laugh.

There were three world bosses for this event. Two were in PvE areas. Choosing to go after the one in the PvP area was voluntary. Those who didn't want to PvP weren't required to go into the PvP area. Again, the basic premise of a PvE server.

There are lots of quest objectives on lots of planets in areas accessible by both factions. That does not mean Bioware intends players on a PvE server should be forced to PvP when they want to go those areas.

I am truly amazed at the aggressiveness with which some people avoid understanding things. It's as if they think being unable to grasp a concept is something to be proud of.

Wow....I mean just....wow!