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Massive object duplication
NineDots
Member Posts: 26
How often would you say that massive object duplication happens in MMORPG ?
What is the best way to deal with it ? Server wipe or else?
According to a player on Darkfall Unholy Wars, a massive object duplication has been going on for several months now.
DFUW is a full open world PVP full loot game. So, being able to duplicate objects is pretty bad and game breaking.
Aventurine is trying to deal with it by banning a few players here and there, see:
http://www.unholybanhammer.com/BH/
However, I am not sure this will really be good enough to make the DFUW players think they have solved the issue.
See: http://shadowsyndicate.net/images/thejoshin.png
What do you think?
Comments
I would be as pre-emptive as possible and put measures in to detect item duplications.
With that said, I would do what Aventurine is doing, lock down the market, find the exploit and patch while banning people that have been using the exploit. A wipe is never the right solution in my opinion, don't punish the honest players.
There was a huge dupe going on in the beta phases of that game. I remember seeing just about everybody go offline, then pop back on again every few minutes. It was reported by EVERYONE as a bug. Apparently, AV never got around to fixing their stuff - imagine that.
And as far as "massive" item duplication, wouldn't that require a "massive" amount of players in the game?
Again I say wtb DF2010.