Craziest exploit in the game right now

Why sell loot from exploits though?

Just on principle. People cheese the game all the time but if it's worth bringing up I wouldn't consider it clean loot.

I don't like any of the cheesing stuff in this game but this one got a thread so that's just my opinion.

@sweetsandman said in Craziest exploit in the game right now:

@wolfmanbush said in Craziest exploit in the game right now:

Why sell loot from exploits though?

We've literally seen people get insta-yeeted for selling loot-duped stuff. Rare fish being the most wild example.

I personally wouldn't take the risk, but at the same time it's probably easy to go back and prove it wasn't you that actually DID the loot duping....but still not worth the risk and inconvenience if there was an action taken in your account.

Between mixed messaging, a history of it sliding more than it didn't, and people looking to influencers in the community as their source of "yay or nay" there really isn't much concern in the community about cheesing/exploiting.

One of the recent videos or posts (mighta been state of play) made it seem like people are exploiting less because they fear consequences more, could not be further from the truth lol. From pve to combat it's all over the place. Unfortunately a lot of people have been dismissing the pve exploits with the "it doesn't hurt you" excuse to cheese the game.

People love to lecture about it or report it when on the seas but they often engage in it themselves in one way or another. Or just contribute to dismissing it when their friends do it.

If people aren't scared to do all these launch/board exploits all day long and other combat exploits, they definitely aren't worried about pve exploits.

@itz-majman said in Craziest exploit in the game right now:

@wolfmanbush

Because someone will sell it, I don't expect to keep it. Even requested to get it removed, I don't need any of the gold/doubloons but I rather get it gone from the server than someone else gets it aka the exploiters that was doing it.
This isn't a basic cheese, cheesing the game is re-rolling voyages to avoid sailing around. This is a dupe-exploit that makes you skip hours upon hours of actual grinding, which in my eyes is every different.

The fact people can also stack cursed-cannonballs and then hop into HG to destroy people is a huge issue too, since HG is plagued with other problems already.

To me this is like saying "I robbed the robber so that a robber doesn't keep it".

That ain't robin hood stuff, that's just robbin'

@itz-majman said in Craziest exploit in the game right now:

@wolfmanbush

If a 8-man crew keeps coming at you over and over again, eventually they will win and get the stuff back. What do you suggest I should do at that point?

Me selling it and hopefully making rare delete it after is the best way of solving it.

Just because people aren't worried about it doesn't mean nothing will happen.

Try to do what is right by the environment and things work out alright, get too greedy and dip into exploiting and extremely cheesy stuff and that'll often catch up to people eventually, in one way or another.

It's a game, none of us are heroes by sailing around in a game. Whether you report it or not is entirely up to you but there really isn't much of a reason to get involved beyond that. It's not a situation where someone is in danger or something that serious.

Things get muddy when you involve yourself in some shady activity. Never really worth it when there isn't immediate danger and when you really can't do much beyond just being a part of the situation.

@itz-majman said in Craziest exploit in the game right now:

@wolfmanbush

You didn't answer the question at all.

If I can stop someone from "cheating" the game, then I happily do it. Doesn't make me a hero but I can at least stop them that once and then report it and hopefully something will come out of it.
Better than standing on the side, letting it happen like you suggested. It's a PvPvE game after all and interacting with other crews is part of that.

I wanna strive to make the game more enjoyable for others if possible. If everyone had your mindset then issues like these would never get patched or surface to begin with.

Season 13. Exploits everywhere. I avoided BB comms until season 14 after the major exploits were patched.

The exploits got patched and I didn't touch any dirty loot or get involved in any of the exploits of that season.

Season 11. I didn't go anywhere near the sea fort and other raid exploits, didn't sell any dirty loot. Stuff got patched.

Athena shipwreck exploits. I didn't touch, steal or sell any of that loot. Got patched.

It gets patched because of the reports and then the time it takes for them to figure out how they are going to approach it, not from people taking actions into their own hands while in the game.

Any responsible support system is gonna tell you to report it and keep yourself safe. In this situation it would mean not adding items from exploits to your account. Even when the intent is good. They could remove it from the accounts of the ones doing it just as easily as they can yours.

@itz-majman said in Craziest exploit in the game right now:

@wolfmanbush

If a 8-man crew keeps coming at you over and over again, eventually they will win and get the stuff back. What do you suggest I should do at that point?

Me selling it and hopefully making rare delete it after is the best way of solving it.

Red Sea

@xdragonman15558 said in Craziest exploit in the game right now:

@itz-majman said in Craziest exploit in the game right now:

@wolfmanbush

If a 8-man crew keeps coming at you over and over again, eventually they will win and get the stuff back. What do you suggest I should do at that point?

Me selling it and hopefully making rare delete it after is the best way of solving it.

Red Sea

Patched and even before the patch, people could still get it if they really wanted to.

Only real way to do it would be to let it sink somewhere and defend for 10 minutes. Outside of the areas that people use for siren song spawns.

Possible but pretty pointless. Either the people get rolled back or they get away with it. Spending a bunch of time messing with exploiters just slows things down until they move along. They have the strats to just make up for any "losses".

People that are not bound by a shared code or concern don't lose ego/spite battles. There is always spin to act like they did but they don't, they don't view the environment the same way. They only lose to consequences and even that is rare. Always best to move along rather than drag it on.

@sweetsandman said in Craziest exploit in the game right now:

I personally wouldn't take the risk, but at the same time it's probably easy to go back and prove it wasn't you that actually DID the loot duping....but still not worth the risk and inconvenience if there was an action taken in your account.

That's why I record all my game play.