Yes, its plausible that some farmed the public dungeon and either thought the second skill-point was an visual bug only or they did not get it the last time. Worse if you do it once and has not done the dungeon since forever.ProbablePaul wrote: »Accidental suspensions are a great reason to keep initial punishment as suspensions rather than bans, as some people have suggested. Although, I don't know what really goes wrong to cause it... I would think that the people who were banned have some correlating data, like tons of skill points gained in a short period of time. Accidents do happen, though.
ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »Last week, there was an exploit reported on PC that allowed you to repeatedly gain skill points from a single location. We have since fixed this issue as of our most recent incremental patch, but accounts had not yet been actioned… until now. This afternoon, we’ll be suspending close to 300 PC accounts that were found exploiting this issue. In addition to a 3-day suspension, affected accounts will have all skill points reset to their original state before this exploit occurred.
We encourage everyone to review the Terms of Service and Code of Conduct. If you’re unsure if you’ve found an exploit in ESO, please reach out to a staff member or contact Support.
Bouldercleave wrote: »It sounds like a group boss in one of the public dungeons was bugged giving you a skill point every time you killed him. At least that is what I can decipher from the cryptic posts.
I think is would be easy to determine if a player got more than 1 skill point at a certain place.
necronomniconb14_ESO wrote: »There will be some karma if they hit the wrong nerd up for just playing the game and their own consistent incompetence once they figure out exactly what they were 'punished' for. I bet anybody that even got 1 extra point and had no idea it happened was also hit.
lordrichter wrote: »necronomniconb14_ESO wrote: »There will be some karma if they hit the wrong nerd up for just playing the game and their own consistent incompetence once they figure out exactly what they were 'punished' for. I bet anybody that even got 1 extra point and had no idea it happened was also hit.
You made me wonder something. We know that ZOS, probably Bethesda Softworks, and maybe people in other studios, all play the game on a regular basis. They may even have personal accounts that they use. I wonder how many of them got accidentally tagged in this and whether they were forgiven, or the fact that they "exploited" added to their employment records.
lordrichter wrote: »necronomniconb14_ESO wrote: »There will be some karma if they hit the wrong nerd up for just playing the game and their own consistent incompetence once they figure out exactly what they were 'punished' for. I bet anybody that even got 1 extra point and had no idea it happened was also hit.
You made me wonder something. We know that ZOS, probably Bethesda Softworks, and maybe people in other studios, all play the game on a regular basis. They may even have personal accounts that they use. I wonder how many of them got accidentally tagged in this and whether they were forgiven, or the fact that they "exploited" added to their employment records.
Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »lordrichter wrote: »necronomniconb14_ESO wrote: »There will be some karma if they hit the wrong nerd up for just playing the game and their own consistent incompetence once they figure out exactly what they were 'punished' for. I bet anybody that even got 1 extra point and had no idea it happened was also hit.
You made me wonder something. We know that ZOS, probably Bethesda Softworks, and maybe people in other studios, all play the game on a regular basis. They may even have personal accounts that they use. I wonder how many of them got accidentally tagged in this and whether they were forgiven, or the fact that they "exploited" added to their employment records.
Highly unlikely. Most of the players that got the hammer probably camped and got more than a few skill points from this. While there may have been a Zos employee on their personal account that got more than one SP out of this they are not so stupid to think that they could keep getting more and more SP from this and not report it.
Anyone who thinks a bulk of those banned had no idea they were getting skill points each time and did not notice are fairly delusional about this.
necronomniconb14_ESO wrote: »Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »lordrichter wrote: »necronomniconb14_ESO wrote: »There will be some karma if they hit the wrong nerd up for just playing the game and their own consistent incompetence once they figure out exactly what they were 'punished' for. I bet anybody that even got 1 extra point and had no idea it happened was also hit.
You made me wonder something. We know that ZOS, probably Bethesda Softworks, and maybe people in other studios, all play the game on a regular basis. They may even have personal accounts that they use. I wonder how many of them got accidentally tagged in this and whether they were forgiven, or the fact that they "exploited" added to their employment records.
Highly unlikely. Most of the players that got the hammer probably camped and got more than a few skill points from this. While there may have been a Zos employee on their personal account that got more than one SP out of this they are not so stupid to think that they could keep getting more and more SP from this and not report it.
Anyone who thinks a bulk of those banned had no idea they were getting skill points each time and did not notice are fairly delusional about this.
I recognize you as a zyngamax shill, so I'm not pointing this out to you I'm pointing it out to the oblivious... there were some who posted even on the first page that this hit them or a friend of theirs who didn't even realize WTF had happened to them and what it was over. Over just a point or two. It already happened, blanket bans (except to developers' personal accounts of course) because devs are too incompetent to code a game properly let alone police it properly.
This guy I believe is part of damage control and shilling for zos. I have kept an eye on him, and he's seemed to be doing it on occasion. I'm tired of giving this company chances when now they're just plain lazy and harming innocent people on top of being greedy. I muted the shill, since I was eating when I had to see it post. We need more than 12 ignore slots, but when I saw the forum was full of shills during the morrowind and patch frustration phase I realized why they don't want us being able to ignore too many other posters. It's worth ignoring that one though, even after having taken it off of ignore at one point to put a more annoying one on there simply because I'd like to keep my breakfast down.
Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »lordrichter wrote: »necronomniconb14_ESO wrote: »There will be some karma if they hit the wrong nerd up for just playing the game and their own consistent incompetence once they figure out exactly what they were 'punished' for. I bet anybody that even got 1 extra point and had no idea it happened was also hit.
You made me wonder something. We know that ZOS, probably Bethesda Softworks, and maybe people in other studios, all play the game on a regular basis. They may even have personal accounts that they use. I wonder how many of them got accidentally tagged in this and whether they were forgiven, or the fact that they "exploited" added to their employment records.
Highly unlikely. Most of the players that got the hammer probably camped and got more than a few skill points from this. While there may have been a Zos employee on their personal account that got more than one SP out of this they are not so stupid to think that they could keep getting more and more SP from this and not report it.
Anyone who thinks a bulk of those banned had no idea they were getting skill points each time and did not notice are fairly delusional about this.
Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »lordrichter wrote: »necronomniconb14_ESO wrote: »There will be some karma if they hit the wrong nerd up for just playing the game and their own consistent incompetence once they figure out exactly what they were 'punished' for. I bet anybody that even got 1 extra point and had no idea it happened was also hit.
You made me wonder something. We know that ZOS, probably Bethesda Softworks, and maybe people in other studios, all play the game on a regular basis. They may even have personal accounts that they use. I wonder how many of them got accidentally tagged in this and whether they were forgiven, or the fact that they "exploited" added to their employment records.
Highly unlikely. Most of the players that got the hammer probably camped and got more than a few skill points from this. While there may have been a Zos employee on their personal account that got more than one SP out of this they are not so stupid to think that they could keep getting more and more SP from this and not report it.
Anyone who thinks a bulk of those banned had no idea they were getting skill points each time and did not notice are fairly delusional about this.
Actually there was a tread made week ago by a guy who got baned for leveling new toon by going trough zones and collecting skyshards. He told he didnt want to grind lvl, so he decided to skyshard hunt and lvl at the same time. After a while he got hit by a ban. He was realtively new i think and didnt know wth is going on. He came here and made a tread which was removed faster then i could comment on it, guessing ZoS didnt want ppl to see what happened to this poor guy. Now im positive that this guys problem is related to ban spree ZoS is on for skyshard exploiters(first time i hear about it), ofc ZoS can never do things properly and ppl(atleast one) got baned for skyshard hunting legit way.
lordrichter wrote: »Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »lordrichter wrote: »necronomniconb14_ESO wrote: »There will be some karma if they hit the wrong nerd up for just playing the game and their own consistent incompetence once they figure out exactly what they were 'punished' for. I bet anybody that even got 1 extra point and had no idea it happened was also hit.
You made me wonder something. We know that ZOS, probably Bethesda Softworks, and maybe people in other studios, all play the game on a regular basis. They may even have personal accounts that they use. I wonder how many of them got accidentally tagged in this and whether they were forgiven, or the fact that they "exploited" added to their employment records.
Highly unlikely. Most of the players that got the hammer probably camped and got more than a few skill points from this. While there may have been a Zos employee on their personal account that got more than one SP out of this they are not so stupid to think that they could keep getting more and more SP from this and not report it.
Anyone who thinks a bulk of those banned had no idea they were getting skill points each time and did not notice are fairly delusional about this.
Actually there was a tread made week ago by a guy who got baned for leveling new toon by going trough zones and collecting skyshards. He told he didnt want to grind lvl, so he decided to skyshard hunt and lvl at the same time. After a while he got hit by a ban. He was realtively new i think and didnt know wth is going on. He came here and made a tread which was removed faster then i could comment on it, guessing ZoS didnt want ppl to see what happened to this poor guy. Now im positive that this guys problem is related to ban spree ZoS is on for skyshard exploiters(first time i hear about it), ofc ZoS can never do things properly and ppl(atleast one) got baned for skyshard hunting legit way.
There was a Skyshard exploit?
Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »lordrichter wrote: »necronomniconb14_ESO wrote: »There will be some karma if they hit the wrong nerd up for just playing the game and their own consistent incompetence once they figure out exactly what they were 'punished' for. I bet anybody that even got 1 extra point and had no idea it happened was also hit.
You made me wonder something. We know that ZOS, probably Bethesda Softworks, and maybe people in other studios, all play the game on a regular basis. They may even have personal accounts that they use. I wonder how many of them got accidentally tagged in this and whether they were forgiven, or the fact that they "exploited" added to their employment records.
Highly unlikely. Most of the players that got the hammer probably camped and got more than a few skill points from this. While there may have been a Zos employee on their personal account that got more than one SP out of this they are not so stupid to think that they could keep getting more and more SP from this and not report it.
Anyone who thinks a bulk of those banned had no idea they were getting skill points each time and did not notice are fairly delusional about this.
Actually there was a tread made week ago by a guy who got baned for leveling new toon by going trough zones and collecting skyshards. He told he didnt want to grind lvl, so he decided to skyshard hunt and lvl at the same time. After a while he got hit by a ban. He was realtively new i think and didnt know wth is going on. He came here and made a tread which was removed faster then i could comment on it, guessing ZoS didnt want ppl to see what happened to this poor guy. Now im positive that this guys problem is related to ban spree ZoS is on for skyshard exploiters(first time i hear about it), ofc ZoS can never do things properly and ppl(atleast one) got baned for skyshard hunting legit way.
3 days vacay for an exploit? That's it? I sometimes don't log in for a week, if I ever got a ban I wouldn't even know I did something wrong lol.
lordrichter wrote: »Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »lordrichter wrote: »necronomniconb14_ESO wrote: »There will be some karma if they hit the wrong nerd up for just playing the game and their own consistent incompetence once they figure out exactly what they were 'punished' for. I bet anybody that even got 1 extra point and had no idea it happened was also hit.
You made me wonder something. We know that ZOS, probably Bethesda Softworks, and maybe people in other studios, all play the game on a regular basis. They may even have personal accounts that they use. I wonder how many of them got accidentally tagged in this and whether they were forgiven, or the fact that they "exploited" added to their employment records.
Highly unlikely. Most of the players that got the hammer probably camped and got more than a few skill points from this. While there may have been a Zos employee on their personal account that got more than one SP out of this they are not so stupid to think that they could keep getting more and more SP from this and not report it.
Anyone who thinks a bulk of those banned had no idea they were getting skill points each time and did not notice are fairly delusional about this.
Actually there was a tread made week ago by a guy who got baned for leveling new toon by going trough zones and collecting skyshards. He told he didnt want to grind lvl, so he decided to skyshard hunt and lvl at the same time. After a while he got hit by a ban. He was realtively new i think and didnt know wth is going on. He came here and made a tread which was removed faster then i could comment on it, guessing ZoS didnt want ppl to see what happened to this poor guy. Now im positive that this guys problem is related to ban spree ZoS is on for skyshard exploiters(first time i hear about it), ofc ZoS can never do things properly and ppl(atleast one) got baned for skyshard hunting legit way.
There was a Skyshard exploit?
No a player who legit gained skill points by finding skyshards got caught up in the exploit ban or so it is said.
lordrichter wrote: »Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »lordrichter wrote: »necronomniconb14_ESO wrote: »There will be some karma if they hit the wrong nerd up for just playing the game and their own consistent incompetence once they figure out exactly what they were 'punished' for. I bet anybody that even got 1 extra point and had no idea it happened was also hit.
You made me wonder something. We know that ZOS, probably Bethesda Softworks, and maybe people in other studios, all play the game on a regular basis. They may even have personal accounts that they use. I wonder how many of them got accidentally tagged in this and whether they were forgiven, or the fact that they "exploited" added to their employment records.
Highly unlikely. Most of the players that got the hammer probably camped and got more than a few skill points from this. While there may have been a Zos employee on their personal account that got more than one SP out of this they are not so stupid to think that they could keep getting more and more SP from this and not report it.
Anyone who thinks a bulk of those banned had no idea they were getting skill points each time and did not notice are fairly delusional about this.
Actually there was a tread made week ago by a guy who got baned for leveling new toon by going trough zones and collecting skyshards. He told he didnt want to grind lvl, so he decided to skyshard hunt and lvl at the same time. After a while he got hit by a ban. He was realtively new i think and didnt know wth is going on. He came here and made a tread which was removed faster then i could comment on it, guessing ZoS didnt want ppl to see what happened to this poor guy. Now im positive that this guys problem is related to ban spree ZoS is on for skyshard exploiters(first time i hear about it), ofc ZoS can never do things properly and ppl(atleast one) got baned for skyshard hunting legit way.
There was a Skyshard exploit?
No a player who legit gained skill points by finding skyshards got caught up in the exploit ban or so it is said.
Malamar1229 wrote: »So lemme get this straight...anyone down there farming the boss for the new gear drops likely got banned then.....
lolsauce
JR_Returns wrote: »There are some really interesting comments in this post and yes I too think 3 days isn't worth the effort, they should start with a month and work up.
However what I want to know is once ZOS have been informed of an exploit and not bothered to fix it, how long does it remain an exploit.
For example: ZOS told of exploit, 3 months later and still not fixed, does it now become a game feature?
This was a specific lightning staff bug. The splash damage of a lightning heavy is supposed to do X% of the single target damage done. However, the bugged calculation took the single target damage done, and then increased it by the seemingly applicable CP stars, so that the AoE damage was greater than X% of the single target damage. The single target damage was already increased by the CP stars, and the AoE wasn't supposed to be increased *again* (e.g., EE would end up being applied twice for the AoE damage). It was fixed for the Morrowind patch (see patch notes).Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »
Will punishments be worse if any of these people were repeat offenders?
As I feel whilst this issue was reversible the fact we often see suspensions only leads people to promote exploiting, cash out before the suspension, take a suspension and enjoy the rewards still.
As I have posted many times in other threads about exploiting I feel ZOS would do well to adopt a strike system (if not already) to make sure first time offended who may not know better learn, but repeat offenders are eventually removed from the game.
No. Just No.
Repeat offenders should not be removed from the game. As long as it is game expirienced-related the punishments should stay ingame related and not account related.
Suspending someone from the game permanently is never to take in action just because someone abusing a bug in game. Permanently bans are reserved for Bots and system hacks ONLY.
ericprydz82ub17_ESO wrote: »I feel for those that got caught up in this by either doing the right thing and reporting it if you saw it or those that just didn't realize it happened.
Me being on console, now has me concerned since we have the same patch that PC had so the "exploit" is active atm. Has ZOS came out and mentioned which public dungeon it is from so we can now avoid it and not make the mistake others made? I just power leveled a Warden and wouldn't mind acquiring some extra skill points to finish out the build but I really don't want to get caught up in any of this BS that is happening.
If you can't learn from a mistake you just made not 2 weeks ago, even though the opportunity is right in front of you, there is no hope for future development in this game with a trusting player base.
ericprydz82ub17_ESO wrote: »I feel for those that got caught up in this by either doing the right thing and reporting it if you saw it or those that just didn't realize it happened.
Me being on console, now has me concerned since we have the same patch that PC had so the "exploit" is active atm. Has ZOS came out and mentioned which public dungeon it is from so we can now avoid it and not make the mistake others made? I just power leveled a Warden and wouldn't mind acquiring some extra skill points to finish out the build but I really don't want to get caught up in any of this BS that is happening.
If you can't learn from a mistake you just made not 2 weeks ago, even though the opportunity is right in front of you, there is no hope for future development in this game with a trusting player base.