Prestige should be reset to 0.
There should be a penalty, but less severe. Remove extra Prestige and maybe a little more.
Only remove the Prestige gained through exploiting.
No penalty at all. Leave all the Prestige they gained.
From what I have read it appears that the determination of who was "cheating" was not made by the review of attack reports but by some arbitrary decision about what was to much prestige gain in a period of time. Which has nothing to do with whether the exploit was used and if so was used to any significant extent. To make that determination, attack reports should have been reviewed and a determination that the exploit was used x amount of times within a specific time period. Warnings should have been given and then punishments should have been levied for repeat offenders. From my understandign from affected players no Evony rep had any specific knowledge about their so called abuse other then saying you jumped from rank such and such to such and such.
What appear to have been done is that any player that jumped ranking more then was acceptable to the game devs was penalized without any review or warning. As others have stated, no rule book was given, so if the game allows it then it's fair. If a player finds it worthwhile to sacrifice 2K warrior several times a day instead of raiding NPC's then it's his effort, time and resources.
I work in the IT industry and if I treated my end users as has been done here then I'd be penalized by my superiors.
Karsh
Yes, but by gaining prestige by exploiting the "cheat" they got extra gold through solving quests earlier than those who didn't. Taking the prestige away from them hasn't actually resolved that problem, so they are still have not really be punished.
If you had actually read my post, then you would have realised that. Instead of which, you, as a **** witted moron, have launched in with an opinion, without even actually checking out the opposing arguments. This makes you the dumbest ****er on the forum. You don't understand how the game works, you don't really understand what the issues are, yet you launch in with a half formed opinion. I expect to be buying a burger from you some time soon. I'll have some fries with that burger lol
all of you that voted to keep my prestige in any amount are poor players and probably worse people
this game is a joke as are all of you haters
you have no clue what was going thru my mind as i was running prestige raids and you have no clue as to the penalty of having zero prestige as an alliance host
heres an idea post a rule book you lazy @$#%
follow quests you said
well quest said get over 500k prestige not how
made perfect sense to me that as ruler of my world i could pay for prestige w/ lives and gold
now for that im a cheat and i can no longer help protect or feed my alliance
its been a few days now and i kept hoping i would feel better about this but you weak players and good for nothing / do nothing mods quite literaly make me sick
forget the mods and devos i hope the CFO and accountants of evony notice the hundreds of dollars per month that they will no longer get from me, thats right you can track my prestige so now go track the money i spent playing your weak, free game and take note that it ends here
Last edited by J.Cool; 06-24-2009 at 07:23 PM.
Usually by the time I read through 28 pages of arguments... the thread begins to feel more like this....
Meh.. brain.. hurting...
So your saying that when someone finds an exploit for a OS and uses it to take advantage of the OS on multiple platforms that he is not responsible for his own actions?
If I got this right than what you're saying is that since he spent time and his own resources to produce the troops to use as suicide dummy's to gain prestige just to be on the top prestige ranks that he should not lose his prestige?
It's wrote very clear in the ingame rules
"Exploiting
Deliberately abusing a bug for profit or to benefit yourself, or intentionally concealing a bug is strictly prohibited."
The players should have considered this by clearly thinking of what exactly they were doing and contacted a staff member to clear up the issue and make sure what they were doing wasn't againt the rules.
What you should do is check the forums that have a handful of guides which tell you exactly what and how to do things. Curiosity might be human nature but it still applies to having curiosity to ask a staff member if its wrong to do such things with the prestige. Also have you ever heard the line "Curiosity Killed The Cat"?
Nothings perfect no software is fool proof or bug free. People will find bugs/exploits/glitches and they will abuse them, if actions not taken people will be more welcome to doing so. No one reported the exploit so they stood their ground and took advantage of it. How could the Evony Team correct something if their not aware of players abusing it.
Once again it was stated to not exploit in the game rules. It CLEARLY stated that and I have clearly posted in 2 threads stating what the term exploit means in computer terminology.
Funny that you see exactly what's being charged to your paypal before you even click the submit/accept/purchase button to finalize your purchase.
No one reported it, exploits were wrote against the rules and no brought it to the teams attention so there for no users were told that it was. Even though the simple point of doing it was to get massive prestige to get on the ranking board. Also people actually like punishments that are dealt with correctly. Im glad they were punished as if they weren't people would constantly try and look for loopholes to exploit things to take advantage of such things without the fear of a punishment because they could play the card that the previous players were never punished.
Actually a 3 year old can't even say his name correctly let alone dream of comprehending this. If the team was not smart we would not be on this forum let alone this domain. Please keep direct insults to yourself. Also no their not trying to cover up anything obviously the game is still in beta and no one reported the issue they tryed to hide it under the rug and use it to their advantage. Changes will always be made to such things which are unfair to others for a more balanced game.
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Clearly someone just likes mixing words around. Good job Bro. Haha
Chris, just to make sure... you're saying you spent real money on evony? And you still had your prestige reduced to 0? That's pretty interesting then... Sephi allegedly spent money on the game also, and there's no other way than exploiting to explain his prestige jumps... yet he's been untouched... Maybe we have to spend over $500 or something...
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