Skoodge wrote on Sep 29^th, 2015 at 9:19am:


Better than the seething hive of rabid feminism that we have in the west, I'd reckon.

and Brother Beaver tells it like it is on one headshot:

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/465924-Old-Mabar-stuff?p=5696092&viewf...

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Glad I got three "exclusive" +5 tomes back in the days through TR & LR by using this "expolit"? or bug? Ineptness? Wasn't even duping, but running thier fucking lagfest way too many times.

DDOcrackhead wrote on Sep 29^th, 2015 at 2:10pm:


DIAF

Humble Pie wrote on Sep 28^th, 2015 at 1:31am:


We could tell you didn't dupe them. We could tell by how very little you had.

Revaulting wrote on Sep 29^th, 2015 at 7:56pm:


RV - pls don't poke holes in their veil of suspension of disbelief.
We've exposed their real motive, the rest is just sugar coating a turdball.


And every other ingredient (challenges, Winter crap, Cove, Cannith & Raid crafting, etc) that pre-existed Dupapalooza 4 (or was it 5 or 6...)?

Just those confounded Mabar ingredients are the root of all evil because they were tradeable and produced in qtys and you could get a +5 tome (gasp, with the Turdbine introduced power creep, those tomes aren't that great anymore, but they don't play so they wouldn't realize that).  Luckily all those other mats aren't tradeable or were produced in large qtys.

As someone else pointed out, people who duped probably got everything they wanted.  Simply make the old Mabar mats BTA and problem solved - all those "filthy dupers" can't pass them on and innocent players are unaffected.  I'd suggest BTA as all players do need to move them amongst toons on the same account.

OMG - how hard was that to solve the problem AND not frack over your existing player base????

PS - They can change the names automatically, so why not the bind status?
PSS - The acquired items are BTC so there is no way the duped mats can be monetised, so by their own admission only a very small number of players will derive any benefit from duped mats, so who cares?

What will happen when people dupe them too?

Sim-Sala-Bim wrote on Sep 30^th, 2015 at 6:03am:


As has happened before, it will make all their punitive efforts futile and pointless.

Duping will be back one day.

Sim-Sala-Bim wrote on Sep 30^th, 2015 at 9:38am:


FTFY

OldCoaly wrote on Sep 30^th, 2015 at 6:49am:

Yeah, they can do it, and they can also give 3 months notice to give people time to shuffle their gear. Nobody is mistaking them when events aren't running, it was a "heat of the moment" problem.

It would be easy to get a working fix out there that didn't screw innocent players, but then they wouldn't be able to laugh at our pain and feel smugly superior and powerful, so it won't happen.

Flav wrote on Sep 30^th, 2015 at 1:48pm:


You are in error.




The old ones did become bound.

Whether it was intended or not, under Slapnuts Soledad's changes, almost all items changed had their binding status automatically changed.

Prior to his dicking around with the code, players were usually given a choice to use the stone of change for the new version while doing nothing kept the old item. Ex. old epic items kept the old augment slots.