Punishment For Mod Exploiters?

3Cheers4Tyranny · May 23, 2017 12:13AM

If so, I request not to be ba- well would you look at that? It's time to go, um, I wasn't exploiting anything!

10m credits for selling mods

Mitchell_13 · May 23, 2017 12:15AM

Haha what?

Brianpatrickmcgee · May 23, 2017 12:19AM

There was about a 45 minute window where the mod upgrade feature was not subtracting credits for upgrades. People were upgrading every mod they had for free, and selling the ones with stats that they didn't need, resulting in crazy amounts of credits and high power mods.

LordStyling · May 23, 2017 12:20AM

3Cheers4Tyranny wrote: »

If so, I request not to be ba- well would you look at that? It's time to go, um, I wasn't exploiting anything!
10m credits for selling mods

wow.

lol

xanderxman · May 23, 2017 12:20AM

How fast will they address this issue? Oh wait, they quietly fixed it.

nskowyra · May 23, 2017 12:21AM

Upgraded mods sell for more. . . I did not know that

Mod shop time

ABNRAS · May 23, 2017 12:21AM

Nutes revenge. Lol

HorishBathens · May 23, 2017 12:21AM

Probably by letting you keep the credits you earned by selling them, but subtracting the total amount they would have cost to upgrade.

xanderxman · May 23, 2017 12:23AM

Well that sure happened quickly. Hahaha

Kozispoon · May 23, 2017 12:24AM

Hiya!
We're currently reviewing this situation and will post any updates when applicable. Thanks!

Insufferable_camper · May 23, 2017 12:31AM

I figured it was working as intended.

Bjorne_Fellhanded · May 23, 2017 12:33AM

Ain't it always? Lol

Insufferable_camper · May 23, 2017 12:36AM

Wives and financial advisers all across the land are hoping for a lot of game bans.

nskowyra · May 23, 2017 12:38AM

I wonder what the chain of events are that have to happen in order for a bug like this to make it live

MayAddy622 · May 23, 2017 12:39AM

I started upgrading as usual, then realized that it didn't take any credits. Who wouldn't continue on? Zader was working as intended right? So we're these jawa in aat too right?

Finding something not working right is what gamers do, it's not a hack, and just the same exploit as those soloing with zader. . .

If punishment is what ea is looking for, consistency would have to be the key. Is that the policy?

It's fixed, move along, these aren't the droids your looking for.

anonidude · May 23, 2017 12:43AM

Oh wow that's just great.

So those who knew it was a bug and didn't take advantage - because you know it's the right thing to do - are now at the mercy of those that did upgrade all their mods, cherry picked the best onto their arena gw and raid sqauds and sold the rest for mega profit.

How is that fair? What a fiasco

Bjorne_Fellhanded · May 23, 2017 12:45AM

WAI baby

Demagol · May 23, 2017 12:46AM

I will be honest, I "exploited" expecting a rollback which I've seen in many games just to see what the stats were. I've spent no energy, bought anything, sold mods or moved mods around because I was just expecting the rollback. If they ban me I will be really upset, I would be more than willing to let them roll back my account or take all the mods I upgraded away as opposed to lose my account in which I have spent a decent amount of money on... I guess we will see.

scuba · May 23, 2017 12:52AM

People pay attention to credits when leveling mods? I never do.

Kissycat · May 23, 2017 12:52AM

They suspended people in the past for taking advantage of rancor raid rewards exploit.

https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/49835/raid-reward-exploit-discussion#latest

And banned people for the Vader achievement exploit. Don't take advantage of exploits.

JJBagger · May 23, 2017 12:53AM

scuba wrote: »

People pay attention to credits when leveling mods? I never do.

I'm the same scuba

3Cheers4Tyranny · May 23, 2017 12:54AM

Kissycat wrote: »

They suspended people in the past for taking advantage of rancor raid rewards exploit.

https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/49835/raid-reward-exploit-discussion#latest

And banned people for the Vader achievement exploit. Don't take advantage of exploits.

I thought they didn't ban Vader exploiters but made the stats on 6-star and 7-star the same for a bit?

Waterdog01 · May 23, 2017 12:55AM

I say ban everyone that upgraded more than 3 mods today! Surely they were all cheating!

nskowyra · May 23, 2017 12:55AM

Supercat wrote: »

GuyfromSyracuse wrote: »

#snakeslivesmatter

+1

They didn't ban me when they screwed GW. I did 3 in as many minutes

What happened to gw

Zipped · May 23, 2017 12:57AM

Most fun I've had in ... Well... Months ... Couldn't care less if they punished me.

Better to ask forgiveness than permission.

Bulldog1205 · May 23, 2017 1:20AM

scuba wrote: »

People pay attention to credits when leveling mods? I never do.

If you upgraded 10 or 20 mods you wouldn't notice that you had and extra 5-10 million? Or when do you upgrade that many mods at once anyways? If you only did a few you will get away with it, but if you did this dozens of times you obviously cheated.

theBOBofBobs · May 23, 2017 1:25AM

Anyone who exploited this knew exactly what they were doing. At the very least it should either be reverted or their credit balance should reflect the actual cost of the upgrades even if it puts them in the negative.

Kissycat · May 23, 2017 1:30AM

3Cheers4Tyranny wrote: »

Kissycat wrote: »

They suspended people in the past for taking advantage of rancor raid rewards exploit.

https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/49835/raid-reward-exploit-discussion#latest

And banned people for the Vader achievement exploit. Don't take advantage of exploits.

I thought they didn't ban Vader exploiters but made the stats on 6-star and 7-star the same for a bit?

If I remember correctly, they were first banned. Then sent to a 'cheaters shard' where it was full of people who did the same thing. Then, once everyone had access to 7* Vader, allowed back into general population. When this happened, the max you could get Vader was 5-6*.

HeresJohnmy · May 23, 2017 1:33AM

How long was the exploit open?
I don't see where anyone received any unfair advantage. The result of this is a credit heist reward. Nothing game breaking.

nskowyra · May 23, 2017 1:35AM

HeresJohnmy wrote: »

How long was the exploit open?
I don't see where anyone received any unfair advantage. The result of this is a credit heist reward. Nothing game breaking.

~1hr

Bulldog1205 · May 23, 2017 1:36AM

HeresJohnmy wrote: »

How long was the exploit open?
I don't see where anyone received any unfair advantage. The result of this is a credit heist reward. Nothing game breaking.

I'm not naming name, but There were people getting 30 million+ credits. That's pretty significant.

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