Quote Originally Posted by Felwynn View Post
1. Legit

2. Going to totally disagree with you here. I'll stop short of calling it a full out exploit that you should get banned for (but it is still an exploit), but those buffs specifically have a range of dates in which they are supposed to be active. Making use of them after those dates is clearly not intended by Evony. This is a thing people are using to exploit because they are making alts and giving them the buffs and then pulling them out 1 by 1 to store troops for free. If you were meant to still be using milk and cookies in July, the terms of milk and cookies would not have said they expired on Jan 4 or whatever the exact date was. This is incredibly bad programming on Evony's part, but it's clearly unintended and doing it would technically meet the definition of an exploit.

3. Exploit but very minor one, but it is an exploit because it allows you to do the equivalent of capping a npc without actually using troops to do it. It's minor because you still have to go through the process of sending the troops to the new city, but to me it's pretty clear the Evony did not intend for people to get around the 24 hour cooldown by having a friend atp it for you and then let you cap it right away. Fact is that you aren't supposed to be able to atp a city and be able to attack from it within a couple hours, so it would also qualify as an exploit.
in regards to the adv porting there are several game mechanics that can be used to ad port a city there and have it full with troops instantly after taking it.
It is important to note that if the adv cooldown was enforced after a city was captured then it would become a serious trap city. For example an adv port city is placed in a nest of reds then it is attacked by the reds - it is potentially likely that a red flag strong hero is then trapped in that city when captured and that hero is then stuck in that city for 24hrs. In that same time an alliance could then go all out to capture that city back and kill off the trapped hero.