April 17 Emergency Maintenance Discussion

[Dowzer]

Apparently Japanese players learned how to dupe the T4 VNM pop item for Yilbegan, using Portafurnaces to dupe Black Abyssite.

It's funny how SE never fixed the Salvage/Sandworm/other duping, instead they gave a warning to players. After players continued to dupe items, SE banned them.

This time around they actually fixed the problem immediately. They didn't ban anyone, not even a slap on the wrist.

Do you think this is another case of SE favoring JP players?

A version update of FINAL FANTASY XI was performed at the following time.
[Date & Time]
Apr. 17, 2010 at 6:30 (PDT)

[Affected Services]
FINAL FANTASY XI

[Important Update Details]
- Temporarily suspended the ability to use the Portafurnace.

We have confirmed an issue which involves the use of the Portafurnace. As a temporary measure, we will be suspending the ability to use the Portafurnace.

We plan on enabling the use of the Portafurnace once the issue is addressed.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.

If you can read Japanese, here's a screenshot illustrating how they did it:

Spoiler:

 

[Suriou]

oh! it's so clear now on how they did it!

JpButton

 

[Raesvelg]

Hard to say. Might just be because they caught it relatively quickly.

Also important to note that the Salvage bans were not immediate. Took a while before SE brought down the banhammer.

 

[Zaltana]

Well the only reason SE even found out about the salvage dupes is cause the playerbase foolishly bragged about it. It was so wide spread by then, they had to make sure they found as many players that took advantage of it as possible. I think that's the reason the salvage bans took as long as they did. Do they know how long this exploit was used?

 

[Dowzer]

They don't know, it can't be very long since VNM is a new system.

Regardless of how long it took, I was under the impression SE permabans dupers without warning. In Salvage, they perma banned players who manipulated the alliance to dupe items and suspended players who only received a few items. Although in some cases, they mixed up these punishments which caused even more drama among the players involved.

Maybe they technically weren't duping at all. I believe they were creating Black Abyssite by using the Portafurnace and then traveling through a Cavernous Maw, which would be an exploit rather than duping.

It's still shady. The rings Yilbegan can drop are the best in the game. If players were obtaining Jailer of Love pop items through an exploit, I imagine harsh action would be taken very quickly.

 

[Mattaru]

Man, um, if I had done Synergy more I'd be able to explain better, but there does not seem to be much in common with each of those episodes besides something with the portafurnace, then entering the maw and literally obtaining the item when he/she zones.

It does not look like a dupe though...

The first picture it looks like instructions for the portafurnace or something, the second one the person is making gold nuggets, third one I would understand better if I knew shit about synergy.