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Obviously, if the admin find it easier to just shrub people than own up to their own mistakes. The help files on the homeport crap don't state anything about "using it as a last ditch effort" ...
Homeport (Seafaring) Known: Yes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Syntax: INVOKE HOMEPORT Details: This powerful seaspell will return your vessel to the harbour that it last departed. Once cast, the spell will summon a powerful storm to transport you great distances.
Where in that does it say "ONLY USE THIS IN EMERGENCIES!!" Where does it say, "DON'T USE THIS IN A PORT!!"
Logic has nothing to do with it.. And still no answer as to why the others that did this same thing haven't come to the same fate.
I mean, it's all pretty clear. I'm not even going to acknowledge your conspiracy theory nonsense that you're spewing in some vain home to attempt to reflect the blame you've been given and are trying to hand off. That is not how adults take responsibility, that is how children function.
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Is there any part of this that sounds like it's not suspicious or questionable?
Anyhow, I think you are kind of forgetting the "flavour" of the risk which is right under that paragraph in AB HOMEPORT. Something you didn't have to go back and read. You just read it yourself to post it.
"Be warned, using the Homeport ability will come at a great cost,
If this was meant to be anytime, any situation quick travel, it likely wouldn't have "great cost" and "be warned" attached to it. Hermit and Universe in tarot, Raido rune, etherchannel, piercing the vale all lack the contextual indications that it is not meant to be something used regularly and freely at low cost to the user.
From reading the help scroll, I don't think there's any way to know that homeport's intended purpose did not include travel. I'm not defending the trading bug, I'm saying that homeport being used as a fast way to get home from Suliel (given that it will cost you 10k plus a trip near Zaphar to consecrate) seems like a reasonable use of the ability.
Im not sure it was intended for you to use it several times a day or an hour.
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If you want to get from Suliel to Tasur in a minute, there is an old Achaean saying: If you want convenience, there's an expensive artefact for that. It was called Chenubian Wings. Considering they very recently stopped allowing for outer island exits (Jan. 2017), I'd say it wasn't too much of a stretch to see the intent wasn't to allow you to bypass great distances and a time sink. Reducing a trip that can be more an hour of playtime to a moment, and a trip to Cyrene for a new pre-consecrated figurehead doesn't fall under "great cost."
I don't sail though. I just think some of this (like expecting awareness of an old announce) is a stretch. It sounds like they only shrubbed people who used the bugs to make ridiculous amounts of gold though. If that's the case, the ability to make such an unreasonable amount of gold compared to other activities was the giveaway, moreso than whether each individual bug "seemed okay" on its own.
Immediately when I read homeport for the first time, I knew it was for emergencies, like having to take a dog to the vet. It's so obvious that it wasn't for fast travel, that the thought it wasn't for fast travel never even crossed my mind.
The idea that it's for non-emergency fast-travel use, or even worse: "hey i can get a bunch figureheads and bounce across the map to complete dozens of ship trades, having to consecrate a new batch maybe once a day, and this is totally intended" is blowing my mind.
I get the generation gap between old gamers and kids these days, but I mean... come on.
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Tecton-Today at 6:17 PM
That's exactly what I meant.
Gold exploits are kind of super obvious. When you can do something to outproduce other standard methods over time by a factor of 10 or more, you haven't discovered that one weird trick that makes other players hate you for being successful. You've discovered an exploit.
This holds true for quests, mobs, seafaring, mining, it doesn't matter. In any event, this is probably going to take awhile to sort out. That the high-rolling exploiters probably made gifts of what they bought is only going to make matters worse, honestly, and show how far reaching this actually is.
I'm gonna represent pro bono publico. Can I get a petition to suspend remainder of sentence hearing for my guy? I'm sure we can get some character witnesses. He's clearly amenable to correction, and to my knowledge doesn't have a history of prior violations or negative rulings. He may even be willing to be a witness against his co-defendants.