To skill or not to skill, that is the question!

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These days alot of noise is being made about the inconvenience of new players skilling up at the revive terminals. The basic insinuation is that it is wrong to do; that basically these players are cheating. I'm not certain they are.

The benefits of being involved in a beta test classically include submission of bugs and the use of "sideways" thought patterns. Using these thought patterns to their logical conclusion ultimately ends up in breaking traditional rulesets, gaining advantage in ways that were not intended. This is indeed what is happening here. New players are gaining alot of skill points at the revive terminals. How much? In the neighborhood of 180 points of evade per night, at early levels! Yes it is unintended by the game.... but is it cheating, or is it simply illustrating a potentially large problem exists with the game before public release?

Think about that. Then think about this:

I wrote this not to justify cheating or abusing the system. I wrote this to give a picture of my girlfriends dead avatar some kind of story so that I could post it in an interesting way. After all, its an interesting picture!

Now get your panties out of that bunch they just got in and say "Damn Magyar. You caught me being all uptight. I need to go get a beer and watch some television before I have an aneurysm."

Take care. :p

 

To say I didnt want to have a discussion like this would be a lie. I wanted to present it in a semi lighthearted way though to avoid any sort of crazy talk. You know. The crazy talk that tends to happen on forums when people have beliefs instead of points of view.

To be honest, the players are not hindering the game play of others. They arent luring these mobs to the TPs. The mobs spawn there and swarm anything that shows up. I teleport into places like Ajolite and Serpentine fully armored, not because players are there exploiting, but because they might not be. Then all the mobs are immediately on me, instead of being distracted by another target!!! My higher level of evade mitigates the damage mobs like Boars and Monkeys can do to me. New players however are not so lucky. Theyll keep dying there whether people are skilling or not. I have to perform rescues at places like the aforementioned Ajolite for lower end soc members there almost daily, and most of the time it turns out they are the only people there, having died while exploring elsewhere in the area.

I actually decided one day to test this skill thing out for myself. Narfis right about the skill gains. This type of thing is only good for noobs, even at level 18 evade I didnt see a single gain in almost 1/2 hour of monitored testing. What I did note was that nobody else was at the teleporter, and all I needed to do to start the process was take my armor off and wait.

In our quest for a villain it seems we are blaming the player who gets caught in the system, rather than the system itself. Spawns simply shouldnt be happening so close to teleporters/revives.

 

Alot of people seem to be using this particular bug.