Happening Right Now! Exploit, Reappearing Jute!

The_Lady_Yin

@ZOS_GinaBruno

As of right now, I've been watching a player picking a spawn of Jute over and over again for about five minutes straight. As soon as they pick it, it disappears and reappears. I don't know how, but something somewhere is being messed with.

cubansyrusb16_ESO

/bug in game .... really though jute is worth nothing that person is wasting their time, it also gives practically no exp if they were to use it to craft.

The_Lady_Yin

It's not natural spawn rates.

Ragnar_Lodbrok

Just bug report it. Do you have to make some uproar in the forums like the world is ending?

SirAndy

It's a new exploit by the bot farmers.
They found a way to speed up the spawn rates of resource nodes ...


PS: @ZOS Having any (and i mean *any*) client side game decisions was hands down the worst mistake you made in this game. Every decision has to be made by the server taking your characters abilities and the environment into account. There should never ever ever ever be any decision made by the client. Ever. Every multiplayer game i have ever worked on worked that way. This is a huge fail on your side.

Chirru

Well...the disappearance often is due to someone in an alternate instance harvesting. Where two instances overlap the same harvesting nodes can be taken from either instance.

However, usually it takes some time for the node to re-spawn. Continuous re-spawn than would mean it is a bug...or someone is hacking the game-script. I hope you reported this as an exploit.

The_Lady_Yin

I have. Reported the player doing it, as well. I'd been watching it respawn within a second or two of being picked.

Ragnar_Lodbrok

The_Lady_Yin wrote: »

I have. Reported the player doing it, as well. I'd been watching it respawn within a second or two of being picked.

So you reported an innocent player?

The_Lady_Yin

No. It was not an innocent player. Some level 4 in nothing but soul shriven stuff standing there, not doing anything but picking up Jute for 10 minutes with the name dward is not an innocent player.

wrlifeboil

Have people lost that much confidence in the integrity of the game at this point that everyone automatically thinks something like this must be an exploit?

This seems more like a re-spawn bug than an exploit but putting the word "exploit" in the title of the post is a cheap and easy way to get some attention I suppose.

Jute is next to worthless anyway.

Gwarok

I look it as being a blessing from Zenithar, Kynareth, and The Nine Divines for giving us a profitable harvesting season.

"I am but a simple farmer" -Rags'nar Lodes-Broke

lioslinn

it`s completely ridiculous. There are 3 people within 10 feet of each other doing this. The jutes reappear every single second. They are clearly bots because if you manage to interrupt one (by being very lucky and harvesting one) they wait until the harvest box closes and start again. Most are in rags yes. I can see how hackers could figure out the harvest pattern and force all of them to appear in the same spots constantly. Or yes it's different instances.

You know, you people downplaying it just sound suspicious 'bah its nothing it's actually a player sitting at his keyboard for hours spamming two keys.....' even if it was, it's still clearly a cheat because resources are clearly not supposed to appear that fast. Are you actually saying it's ok.. its just jute who cares?? *boggles*

Well I reported all 3 with details and screenshots.

update: they are clearly bots because I saw all 3 teleport around and was even able to make them disapear, who knows what that does..

Laerian

They have one or more bots in every node so the jute respawn cycle is almost instant. Btw, not all bots have asdfgas names so people BE careful and don't report normal players.

Yesterday I reported like 10 in my way to discover the Mournhold Wayshrine. Some got killed by Archers or Betty netchs AoEs while I was catching them with the "F" key

I remember one that respawned there and started to run in circles, apparently the bot script got broken lol.

If I were you, I would not take advantage of node respawn due to bots, so report them and get out of there.

Coming soon: node respawn times slightly (when it is a nerf, slightly means +50% or more; cut by half, etc.) increased.

Eris

The_Lady_Yin wrote: »

@ZOS_GinaBruno

As of right now, I've been watching a player picking a spawn of Jute over and over again for about five minutes straight. As soon as they pick it, it disappears and reappears. I don't know how, but something somewhere is being messed with.

What is also happening right now is that the EU server is coming down for maintenance and a patch, followed by the NA server. While I don't know cause the patch notes aren't up yet, it is possible that this is one of the things they are addressing. If not certainly by the 1.1 patch.

lioslinn

thanks Eris, I really hope it gets adressed. If you manage to loot one and keep the harvest window open a minute or so (effectively blocking the node) the bots eventually poof and reappear at the next node and start again. I've seen up to 3 on the same jute, about 15 in the same area. I reported a few but the zone chat was full of gold phishers so I got tired and left heh

Audigy

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/89332/patch-notes-v1-0-6#latest

The patch notes