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Naming and Cheating/Exploiting Policy Update

Discussion in 'Announcements' started by Berek, Aug 18, 2016.

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  1. Brass Knuckles

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    Yea the frusterating thing is mine violates both famous and pledge title, possible religious depending on how you are vewing ruin I guess.
     
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    What if you are actually famous?
     
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    Well, if you were say Dee Snider IRL, wouldn't you want to keep that fact private?
     
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    good question! Would I? Hrm... Just stay away from capt howdy!
     
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    What if my real name is Lee Long Dong or that infamous Vietnamese name we shall not type?
     
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    What if I am long duck dong off of "Sixteen Candles"?
     
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    Can we get your guidlines on a "healthy community" please?
     
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    @Berek :Is doing explorations on terrain (like climbing the Ardoris aquaduct) considered as an exploit ?
    I am talking about cases when there are no in-game barriers (e.g. Invisible walls), just miscalculation / assumptions of in-game physics by the map designer.
    Would getting safe vantage point for ranged attack by using climbable locations considered an exploit (e.g. designer apparently intended close combat, found safe ranged attack spot) ?
     
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    Are you referring to PvE combat here ? In that case, it is considered a bug.

    The game should not allow you to incur damage on a creature who cannot attack back. You should in fact end up continuously doing "0" damage until you get down off the perch.


    Using that position repeatedly and not reporting it would indeed be considered an exploit under the "Working around gameplay" portion I would expect. :)
     
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    Those are exploits. Bannable? Maybe not. But ones that would get fixed. Seen far too many cases exactly like this in too many games over the past 17 years. Depending on what you would get out of repeatedly doing said exploit, it MAY be bannable. Especially if it became wide spread usage and rewards for zero risk was way up there.
     
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    Not on R32. You can get on rocks and kill wolves with arrows. I thought "wow ! they removed that ridiculous immunity against proper tactics!" (there's more proper way to address this issue than introducing immunity).
     
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    Then my information is out-of-date. Thanks for the update. :)

    EDIT : I just checked the QA server, and they have corrected that circumstance back to what I originally stated. You should not be able to incur damage while on an unreachable perch in future releases.
     
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    Darn I really wanted the name John Pope Lenon Walmart. :)
     
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    Oh bummer. They should be doing proper way (introduce special hate points that cause various bad-stuffs, instead of immunity).
     
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    will there be a list of things we can say or do in the game? Or a list of what is forbidden. Can we get a list of names that we can and cannot use? I would hate to get charged 25 bucks to rename a toon if it was wrong according to portalariums rules, which are vague right now.
     
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    If you're Dee Snider, you are probably at that point in your life where you welcome anyone who knows who the hell you are.
     
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    If is a cowards word, declare, or stfu lol.
     
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    Does this apply to Vendor names?
     
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    +1
     
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    Agree with what? I asked a question and expressed nothing to indicate whether I was for or against Vendor names being advertisements.
     
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