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I exploited the System

Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 5:24 pm
by jesder
That topic should get some attention ...

Ok .. lastnight I was harvesting and had to log out for a bit .. When I logged back in I started harvesting again .. After about 5 pulls I notice that I was not getting ANY of the mats. They should have been added to the stack that was in my inventory, but the qty was never increasing. I contacted a GM who told me they have seen bag stacks since the patch and I needed to get rid of the stack before I could get more mats of that type. Now I was in the middle of nowhere and had no crafting tools on me and it would have taken some time to run to town to store the mats for later use.

Then it hit me ... Anyone remember my "why the vendor system cannot go live" post? Well .. it just so happens there was a hawker in the area. I sold the bugged stack to the hawker with 5000 dapper sell price (if someone wanted to by a q100 mat for 5k .. No problem there). This removed the bad stack from my inventory and once I got back to town I could just buy the stack back at no cost! Yay for a workaround!


Moral of the story ... Sometimes not getting what you want is good. While I do not think that the 100 free storage spaces is something that should have made it live, it did come in handy in this case .. and since Nevrax ignored me, They must think it is OK to use the vendors as temp storage ..

So any harvester who doesnt want to drag a packer around, just locate any NPC you can sell too nearby and never have to run to town to unload mats again :P

Re: I exploited the System

Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 5:26 pm
by keriann
basically you can obtain a number of unlimited money like this?.. or just stack stuff?

Re: I exploited the System

Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 5:30 pm
by jesder
keriann wrote:basically you can obtain a number of unlimited money like this?.. or just stack stuff?
If there was a way to get unlimited Dapper .. I would not post it .. ever .. and I would bug the hell out of Nevrax till it was fixed. Also I would never use such a thing


You can put up to 100 items for sale in the vendor system. At any time you can buy the items back by paying the Dapper received when you listed the items and lose no dapper. You figure it out :)

Re: I exploited the System

Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 5:34 pm
by lazarus
Now all we need is a way to make the hawkers follow us about :-)

As a sidenote, I had a strange thing happen today while foraging. I collected a full stack of a mat, then when I continued pulling the same mat I realised a second stack had not started. I wondered if I had miscounted, so I pulled another 6 to check, and oddly enough when I opened my inventory and clicked 'take all' on the forage window, a second stack of 48 mats appeared in my bag.

For some strange reason the other 42 mats were invisible until I picked up mats with my bag open.

Re: I exploited the System

Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 5:35 pm
by keriann
sincerely at the state of the current patch it is, if I'd find a way to make everyone who wishes it invulnerable, or if I would find a way to CHEAT in any other way i would spread the word far and wide. I'm being pretty fed up with the current system of patch 1. at the 4th day of torture my enragement is turning into... revenge.

Re: I exploited the System

Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 5:37 pm
by jesder
lazarus wrote: For some strange reason the other 42 mats were invisible until I picked up mats with my bag open.
Weird ... sounds like the Spa crystal bug with mats.. but I havent had a problem with sap cyrstals ...

I never did get the 50ish mats I lost due to the bug :(

Re: I exploited the System

Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 5:39 pm
by jesder
keriann wrote:at the 4th day of torture my enragement is turning into... revenge.
This is more about a possible workaround to a bug than revenge .. well I am upset about the lost mats .. and that the vendor system is horrid rightnow .. Maybe they knew it was too buggy to charge people to list items ?

Re: I exploited the System

Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 5:42 pm
by keriann
actually my desire of revenge is for all the monster situation that doens't let me play anymore.... and because finally today I managed to harvest something and it turned out as invisible materials.. and I STILL am unable to retrive it (I sold the 4 choiche big shell.. the other 15 didn't appeared.. I rebought.. didn't appear.. I don't know what to do.) if I can't even harvest (because I can't craft with invisible materials so I cannot empty the bag) the game is TWICE pointless.

Re: I exploited the System

Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 6:28 pm
by taria
keriann wrote:actually my desire of revenge is for all the monster situation that doens't let me play anymore.... and because finally today I managed to harvest something and it turned out as invisible materials.. and I STILL am unable to retrive it (I sold the 4 choiche big shell.. the other 15 didn't appeared.. I rebought.. didn't appear.. I don't know what to do.) if I can't even harvest (because I can't craft with invisible materials so I cannot empty the bag) the game is TWICE pointless.
After you sell the 4 choice big shell, don't buy them back...you will need to harvest again but this time you will get mats.

Re: I exploited the System

Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 8:41 pm
by syneris
I had the same issue harvesting last night. I was stripmining amber in zora for xp so i didnt really care about losing the q50 mats. Anyway, once i noticed (a long time after it happened i'm sure) i wasnt getting mats i put them on my packer in the stables 20m away. Got more mats since they started appearing again than decided to sell them. When i went to retrieve the ones on the packer i couldnt get them all. I got a bulk limit message but i still had 100 free bulk and 26 mats is only 13 bulk. Relogged and it was normal again so i guess all that invisible bulk went down the drain. Not like anyone is buying my basic/fine/choice jungle amber even when it's priced below store mat cost