Greetings and Salutations to one and all!
So there has been quite the major upheaval due to the bug concerning the “extra increase” of drops.
I have been cruising the forums and reading alot of the topics. If you exploited the bug knowingly or not, lets face it most people having items from that right now did know about it and went to exploit, regardless of them saying yes or no, what criminal exposes their own misconduct just so they can get penalized huh…thats what i thought.
Also towards everyone that “missed out on this” myself included. Stop acting like the most high of high’s MOST of us are crying because we missed out, and we see that the people who exploited the bug still get to keep 1 unit of whatever they farmed spread out over all the items they might have farmed, be it battle bracelets, cubes, monster gems etc. Those aforementioned are all rare to extremely rare drops.
To be very honest and in my own opinion I have no idea why IMC decides to strip away all those items minus 1 of each distinct item acquired in said time. On top of those “free” items they get, because lets face it the bug pretty much handed them over with almost every kill, they will also get the SAME compensation as everyone else who did not exploit the bug * be it for lack of knowing or actually not wanting to exploit *
So in my honest Opinion, I feel like IMC is either encouraging the act of exploiting or at the Very least kicking everyone that did not exploit for whatever reason a Huge kick in nuts * excluding of female genitalia due to use of the proverbial saying not due to sexism ok.*
On to why I think IMC is letting exploiters retain 1 of each item farmed. Since we have a kill based increase of loot dropping system, I feel IMC thinks that well players were still killing the mobs during all this time and the items would drop sooner or later due to mobs being killed. So we can safely assume that perhaps * lets take battle bracelet as the example * 1 or 2 max maybe 3 battle bracelets would have dropped in a day of normal farming. We can also safely assume that in the case of more than 1 being dropped it could have ended up with the same person making it so that he would have 2 or more.
Here comes the kicker though, during this bug exploit probably more than 10, 20, 30 or more different people have acquired said items due to them only having to kill a few mobs to get them. So this does infact not even remotely resemble the amount of battle bracelets that could have possibly have been acquired in said playing time that have been able to now due to this bug.
Pardon me for this very long post but I feel this is a issue that does deeply cut into Tree of Savior and also into its player base since battle bracelets are required to make one of the most coveted items in the game currently the end game Sissel bracelet or Gladiator band depending on your preference * no one has to kid themselves cause it truly is the best in slot *
So on to the last part, what Should IMC do?
Here are a few of my own humble suggestions,
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Remove all the items farmed and do not leave a single one.
because now the amount of players that will have a battle bracelet vastly surpasses what could have been farmed in said time. -
Permanently increase the drop rates of battle bracelets/add them to more mobs around the world map, to deflate it’s value and thus decrease the amount of benefit the people who exploited this bug will get from said bug * good suggestion in my opinion *
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1 Free battle bracelet for everyone that does not already have 1 from exploiting this bug, simple and plain forward you level the playing field and treat everyone equally as everyone should be treated since you know we are all equals…right? * My personal favorite suggestion, since everyone will benefit see this like a event *
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Punish the exploiters even harder, aka Hit them where it hurts and hit them hard. You simply let them have that 1 battle bracelet and make it unusable and indisposable much like a expired Necklace of whatever it was called, I forgot the name.
- this one is very harsh but in my honest opinion exploiting a bug is like criminal behavior, since you knowingly try to advance your riches/game progress that should not be possible in a normal functioning game, much like robbing a bank to increase your riches which is not acceptable in our world either. This suggestion is my least favorite, but will also be the most effective if used now and when dealing with any further exploits*
Well many people might post negative comments here and thats all good, just remember if you are one of those people who will benefit from this exploit knowingly you will probably not be ok with everyone having a battle bracelet unless you only farmed cubes or gems and now also get a free battle bracelet. If you are the 0.1% that did get a rare or very rare item not knowing about this bug then you would not have any problem with everyone having this very rare item.
Wow that was quite the journey guys, again pardon me for the huge essay written here but I felt it was necessary due to the scale of this problem pretty much the same as the cube exploit was in which all items were indeed removed not leaving a single one.
One final note - I used battle bracelets in my post because I feel like that is what most people (including myself) are salty about with this whole exploit. They are the hardest to acquire due to the low population of mobs that drop them their extremely low drop rate and to top it off often times crowded by bots as well.
Yes the cubes are low drop rate but as far as I know and I actually do not really know since i am not lvl 300+ to farm them they only give 1 material at random? Of which you need more than 1 to craft your weapon.
Monster gems are the same as most good monster gems have quite a decent population of mobs.
Thanks for taking the time to read my thoughts on this scandal that has been dropped on in my Opinion fun albeit not perfect game, right after we got a decent population again.
tl;dr - Exploiters get to have their cake and eat it, read the whole post if you want to post of a significant comment
