Underground Port Exploit Moving Scroll back?

darvaria

ZOS please check game logs 6:30 pm cst Grey Host Friday August 5, 2022 EP Scroll Chim went from Fare to High Rock The scroll went back out the gate. I understand DC players were NOT happy about this and voiced this in zone chat. The scroll then returned to Fare, instantly. As some, like me, remember when that was common. Please keep this in check. I knew a player that used to do this. I heard they got banned a few weeks ago. But someone said, they were back on a "burner account", whatever that is.

Check game logs at this time.

Cheers,

Darv

darvaria

I didn't report because I did not get a player name. Someone else in EP zone chat said this player had been mailing out reward boxes? Just check please.

pcar944

you can't report the player for that either, it was a bug

I dont' remember the player's name either, but I was there when it happened, and the player was surprised and called it out in zone themselves

geonsocal

we had a scroll incident on each server on our platform (playstation)...one where our (DC) scroll got stuck at blue road keep, lasted a couple of weeks...

second where the scroll seemingly bounced around while on the move from AD grabbing it from an EP owned keep (BRK), something happened with the scroll and it ended up back at a keep (KC) the covenant had recently captured...i wasn't with the scroll to see what it looked like in person though...who knows? maybe because the keep (BRK) was no longer owned by the alliance which had planted it there - it went somewhere else, for some reason, while it was on the move...

acastanza_ESO

geonsocal wrote: »

we had a scroll incident on each server on our platform (playstation)...one where our (DC) scroll got stuck at blue road keep, lasted a couple of weeks...

second where the scroll seemingly bounced around while on the move from AD grabbing it from an EP owned keep (BRK), something happened with the scroll and it ended up back at a keep (KC) the covenant had recently captured...i wasn't with the scroll to see what it looked like in person though...who knows? maybe because the keep (BRK) was no longer owned by the alliance which had planted it there - it went somewhere else, for some reason, while it was on the move...

While a scroll is on the move there is a timer. If that timer runs out while the scroll is on the move the scroll tries to return to the keep it was last at. However, if that keep is no longer controlled by the faction that had the scroll there, the scroll will instead attempt to return to a random home keep controlled by that faction that doesn't already have a scroll at it. (If the scroll is dropped during this process and the timer runs out the same thing happens, however, if there is no eligible keep for the scroll to return to it'll just sit there on the ground). Or at least, that's what is supposed to happen, there are probably a bunch of weird edge cases where different behavior could occur.

darvaria

pcar944 wrote: »

you can't report the player for that either, it was a bug

I dont' remember the player's name either, but I was there when it happened, and the player was surprised and called it out in zone themselves

Oh okay. Well someone was in a guild with DC players and said DC didn't like the incident. Guess it was just a game error.

geonsocal

acastanza_ESO wrote: »

geonsocal wrote: »

we had a scroll incident on each server on our platform (playstation)...one where our (DC) scroll got stuck at blue road keep, lasted a couple of weeks...

second where the scroll seemingly bounced around while on the move from AD grabbing it from an EP owned keep (BRK), something happened with the scroll and it ended up back at a keep (KC) the covenant had recently captured...i wasn't with the scroll to see what it looked like in person though...who knows? maybe because the keep (BRK) was no longer owned by the alliance which had planted it there - it went somewhere else, for some reason, while it was on the move...

While a scroll is on the move there is a timer. If that timer runs out while the scroll is on the move the scroll tries to return to the keep it was last at. However, if that keep is no longer controlled by the faction that had the scroll there, the scroll will instead attempt to return to a random home keep controlled by that faction that doesn't already have a scroll at it. (If the scroll is dropped during this process and the timer runs out the same thing happens, however, if there is no eligible keep for the scroll to return to it'll just sit there on the ground). Or at least, that's what is supposed to happen, there are probably a bunch of weird edge cases where different behavior could occur.

oh my goodness - how in the world did you ever figure all of that out...holy cow, that's a lot of stuff going on...

thank you

biminirwb17_ESO

I saw this incident, I was in Fare when the player appeared thru the floor by the scroll, picked it up and disappeared. The player then moved to the DC base in a few seconds, he then ran the scroll out to drop it in the lava, it then respawned at Fare after the usual time.

This was not a bug; it was an exploit and has happened before.