Bugs are bugs, and are illegal no matter what.
The fact that certain people know how to exploit these bugs to use them at will makes no difference.
The fact that they are considered "harmless" in that they don't let you pvp people, makes no difference.
It still does the three things that all bugs do:
1. Not everyone can do it, so it's automatically unfair. And no, don't just use the excuse that you can tell them, or that everyone will learn how to do it. That's not how you balance a game. People shouldn't have to learn glitches to play a game.
2. It unbalances the game. Maybe it won't kill people, but it does make their lives harder. People who want to get ahead and look a little different, or who want to decorate to impress, should not have to abuse a bug to do so. Likewise, the amount of rare colored items/unique items in the game is limited for a reason, so that people who focus on collecting have something to do, and so that accomplishments such as quests or gm skills that grant special items mean something.
3. It is a trust issue. This argument is always the weakest, but when it comes down to it, there is always a fight on staff vs players on any game because whether a bug does anything useful isn't the point, the point is that players don't always know how and why things are balanced the way it is, and so they should never exploit any bugs. If a player is going to exploit one bug they think is harmless, they may exploit another one that they also think is harmless, while both bugs may have a very real affect on the game to the hinderance of other players.
Do the items grant uber pvp skillz?
No
Do they still ruin the game for other players?
Yes
Also, the other argument against bugs like this, that isn't based in logic, is that they make the shard look ugly and like every other shard out there with 15,000,000 colors.
I know that the current carpentry bug isn't that bad since it sticks to a very small subset of colors, same w/ the blacksmithing and tinkering bugs, but again, even if they didn't, players would still think they are harmless.
Harmless != not helping you kill other players.
It sounds to me like you're just complaining that you can't use a bug that makes your life easier and makes you feel special.
Well too bad.
If you want special colors, work to be in events and quests, they are rewards there sometimes. Or work to get rich and trade them from some other players.
You shouldn't be able to use any bug you want just because you want to and you feel you are "justified" by getting easily what other players work for. Obsidian has always been a low special color shard, and that's because special colors actually has significance and means the person worked a little to get something. Not just abused a bug in character creation.
For the Too long/don't read crowd:
1. Not everyone does it, so it's not fair.
2. It's unbalanced. it doesn't have to be pvp to affect game balance
3. If staff have to mistrust players and assume they use bugs they think are "harmless", it makes their lives harder, because most players don't know what bugs are harmless. This bug is not harmless.
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