Current event is being exploited, big time.

crowfl56

I do realize this thread is going to get blasted, by whom, the exploiters.
This event is being exploited by certain people, no names, but I would limited boxes per account per a 24 hr cycle.

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jedtb16_ESO

how is it being exploited?

TequilaFire

Something in the air this morning and it smells.

nathan_bri

Can you elaborate on what you mean by exploit?

gaimers

They are limited to 50 I believe?
My girlfriend realised 2 days ago how sad it is to have reached the daily cap.

redspecter23

Are you using the word exploiting in the proper way? Are they actually breaking the game doing something unintended or are you just unhappy with the amount of boxes people with multiple toons can get legitimately?

zaria

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Exploited how?
Its legitimate gameplay to farm cyrodil town dailies on multiple characters.

kiLLahweSPe

What do you mean by exploit? The fact you are too lazy to do the daily quest limit on every toon? Or the fact that some people have 15 toons? I dont understand.

MrWesleyPipes

how?

Teeba_Shei

The "exploit" is the cap is per character for the dailies. You can just swap characters and do another 50.

Spoilers: Not really an exploit.

TaranWanderer

You mean creating more toons (because you can buy them) and leveling them to do crafting is abuse??

Pangnirtung

Grinding is exploiting?

If I choose to play 12 hours a day and do all possible dailies on all my toons why punish me?

No difference than putting in overtime and work and getting paid for it while those who go home early don't get the extra pay.

Chilly-McFreeze

Are you implying that some playerd with 14 chars that can no-life through the event are exploiting by putting „too much“ time into this

Or

Are you aware of a bug that grants more boxes than intended?

If it’s the second, send a bug report or pm some staff member here.
If it’s the first, you can take your salt and shove it elsewhere.

smacky

I too would like to know, how exactly the event is being exploited?

I mean if you are going to try and call people out for using an exploit, you obviously want it stopped. If you don;t say what that exploit is, and you know about it, then you are breaching the ToS yourself.

So please, tell us what this exploit is?

nathan_bri

There is a limit on boxes per accounts. It’s 50 boxes per character on up to 15 characters.

VaranisArano

The boxes are already limited, sort of. You can do a max of 50 dailies per character per day. Not counting the first day, where you could do writs and dailies ahead of time, turn them in that day and get boxes and still do your dailies for that day - which isn't a new thing at all and ZOS was well aware of that from the previous anniversary event.

So I'm not sure what exploit you are talking about - though I do hope you've turned in a report to ZOS about it - but there is a limit of dailies per account per 24 hours. Theoretical max is 750 boxes (but I can't imagine trying to do that - I'd go crazy just trying to do that many dailies on 15 characters).

kiLLahweSPe

VaranisArano wrote: »

The boxes are already limited, sort of. You can do a max of 50 dailies per character per day. Not counting the first day, where you could do writs and dailies ahead of time, turn them in that day and get boxes and still do your dailies for that day - which isn't a new thing at all and ZOS was well aware of that from the previous anniversary event.

So I'm not sure what exploit you are talking about - though I do hope you've turned in a report to ZOS about it - but there is a limit of dailies per account per 24 hours. Theoretical max is 750 boxes (but I can't imagine trying to do that - I'd go crazy just trying to do that many dailies on 15 characters).

I dont think a day has enough hours to consider 50 dailys on 15 toons.

Nihility42

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You haven't stated how people are exploiting. If you think there is unintended behavior that qualifies as an exploit, report it to the devs.

Taranthula

So I guess you are thinking of those people with max number of characters who are all maxed out, doing the dailies.

In what way is that exploiting? They are playing the game as is, and noone has kept you from doing that as well.

Or do you mean those who groups up and then take turns to share the dailies? This is, for what I know, working as intended, and you see this happen every day, even before the event started.

Koolio

I generally get 150 boxes a day. 250 weekends easy.

Chickenstein

I think most of the people here would just like to understand what you are talking about exactly. Perhaps there is something we miss, really.

JinMori

I think you don't realize the definition of exploiting, here for you:

make use of (a situation) in a way considered unfair or underhand.

It's not unfair, because everyone can do it, this was intended, so it cannot be an exploit, you are just salty because you are not making as much money as players with multiple characters, but those player put in the effort that you probably didn't, which is making various characters.

Exploit would be something like this: during the early stages of legion, there was a bug in the game that allowed to get enormous amounts of ap, because of a raid quest, this was not intended in the game, since it was obviously a bug, and the quest did not reset after completing it, meaning that those players had access to enormous amounts of resources.

This is an exploit. Not what you "described".

DieAlteHexe

Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit, I'm an exploiter because I have alts and do the dailies on them? Have I got the right of it?

DebianPrime

Gee, I am only getting about 15 boxes a day total. Why? simple, I don't have the time, (or motivation, really) to sit there and grind out 50 dailies on even a single toon, let alone 3 or 4.

Do I want more boxes, sure, but... see above. (besides, my wife would probably smother me in my sleep if I put 12+ hours a day into this game for the next 2 weeks)

But for those that DO grind out 50 dailies on multiple toons, jeez folks, take a break, go outside, and get some air.... But they're not exploiting...

yiasemi

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Asardes

You can't beat the cap on daily quests (50) because it takes into account not only previously completed daily repeatable quests, but also the ones already in your journal. Probably the fastest combo would be the crafting writs (6) and 4 Cyrodiil settlements, and a few from the 5th as those have 10 simple quests each. But even that would take 2-3 hours, provided you can land them in quick succession and the map is wholly controlled by your alliance so you can use the transitus to cut travel times in between. Even if you have the time and the patience to do that on multiple characters, in multiple days, it is simply exhausting. I ended up capping only once on a character and it felt horrible doing all those things. I don't know how you can "exploit" that, but the process is thoroughly unpleasant. I've decided to scale back to only doing the writs on 10 chars for 60 boxes a day, but I hardly consider that "exploiting" since it is fully legit, and I also worked hard to level those to 50 at some point.

Turelus

Unless someone has found a way to circumvent the dailies cap or duplicate boxes it can't be exploited to my knowledge.

It might be possible to exploit some of the quests to do them faster, but I've not heard of anything.

Eyesinthedrk

I watched a guy animation canceling his boxes

...reported.

DirkRavenclaw

I do Daillies on 7 Toons, yeah that are 42 Boxes throught Crafting alone, if i get more then 2 to 3 Motifes in the process, i have to sacrife something to RNG. Most is Worms, Alchemy Mats, the odd Temper, Transmute Chrystals. Im not complaining, everything helps and i dont call it exploiting, i call it really hard work and determination, if i get Bonuses out of it and keep my Sanity, now that it is extended for one week (yeah?) Im happy Just enjoy youreself, i also have phases where i just go fishing for Hours, listening to Fantasy Music

VaranisArano

@crowfl56

If you don't want to share the exploit, obviously, because posting an exploit on the forums is a loveley way to get a bunch of people in trouble with the devs, have you reported it to Support?

Alternatively, you could mention the devs and get their attention here so you could pass along your info privately.

I'll link @ZOS_GinaBruno and maybe others can chime in with devs who deal with exploits? I'm sure we can all agree that if there is an exploit with the event, it needs to be dealt with quickly.

Teeba_Shei

This thread should be locked. If there is actually an exploit OP should just report it.