OK here goes. I clearly need to be more active to reinstate some civility on the forums. You are VERY fortunate that Echo and Bob are more patient than I am.
First off - I should help clarify this for you. Your offence should probably be described more directly as an an 'exploit' rather than simply a 'bug'.
If you were just sat in the shrine, or hiding from a monster/player and didn't realise it was bugged, then we would understand.
The fact that you used this effect in order to train/fight without fear of getting hurt is an entirely different thing. Regardless of whether or not you knew the shrine was bugged this is called an EXPLOIT. It's no different from using a town boundary (invul exploit) or objects/scenery (pathing exploit) to train.
An exploit is using an ingame mechanic for a feature that it was not intended - in this case to remain invulnerable while fighting in PvP (punished via jail) and in PvE to train necro skill (punished by skill removal).
This is illegal in any and all true MMOs. If any other games / shards allow exploits to be used then that is their problem. You KNEW when you were able to train without taking damage from monsters that you were doing something wrong. The only reason you are denying knowledge of it is because you got
caught.
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17. Cheating and Exploiting will not be tolerated. There is a ZERO tolerance for these actions and you will be banned or jailed. Report any bug or exploit you find IMMEDIATLY to broadband via the message boards PM feature.
TECHNICALLY under those rules GM Bob could have banned you for repeat offences. You should consider it lucky he chose to be lenient and just take skill points.
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Blood Ripper, you how have a weeks forum suspension starting from now. I have sent a copy of this message to you as a PM to read upon your return.
Your crimes:
- Persistant use of insulting / inflammatory behaviour towards other players
- Persistant use of insulting / inflammatory behaviour towards staff including a GM (in this case, an Admin/Developer)
- Accusing a member of staff of abusing powers / cheating without any proof (this has been discussed on the forums recently)
- Persistant failure to heed forum warnings from a senior member of staff (GM Echo)
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I hope that you take the time to reflect on your actions and that you do not continue this when the suspension is lifted. If you choose to:
- create additional accounts to spam the forums
- continue debating when your ban is lifted
You run a very real risk of having the ban made permament.
This thread is now locked.