odishy wrote: » I left Vyra because the toxicity due to exploitation was impacting my view of the game. Lyneth is infinitely better. I know everyone is hoping that bans fix Vyra, but the culture of that server is already set. Going to be really tough to clean that mess up as certain behaviors have been normalized.
onewingedangelo1 wrote: » How do you know the quality of gear they have? Last I checked that information isn't accessible to us.
nanfoodle wrote: » You can also tell by the graphics of the armor and weapons.
DiddyOil wrote: » As someone from barcode i can ensure you we have blue enchanted gear, We declared two wars before steven posted about the 6 hour window, and then followed that since. We never went to carphin to abuse but rather minos in the desert and tropics. Yes we will push you off the raptors and we needed tailor shirts and other shirts to craft gear. We have degens who stayed on for the first 40 hours and that's how we hit 25 in 3 days. A lot of us are true testers and took time off from work. I'm sorry we where more committed to the grind and im sorry your 15 man company cant fight. We are excepting mergers. The rebranding from verdant to barcode was not to avoid intrepid but rather a 3 guild merger so than verdant 69 would have crafters and gathers rather than just pvp. This game encourages open world pvp and in the words of steven if now is not a good place for you to play come back when its all done and we will accept you. I look forward to the 2 day rest and you seeing none of us banned because we did no wrong.
Highborn wrote: » Would be nice. On EU Sol Deus exploited their hearts out but they're a pvp only guild so they didn't the the above stuff afaik, however they do the fishing or woodcutting comps from time to time.
Its_Me wrote: » DiddyOil wrote: » As someone from barcode i can ensure you we have blue enchanted gear, We declared two wars before steven posted about the 6 hour window, and then followed that since. We never went to carphin to abuse but rather minos in the desert and tropics. Yes we will push you off the raptors and we needed tailor shirts and other shirts to craft gear. We have degens who stayed on for the first 40 hours and that's how we hit 25 in 3 days. A lot of us are true testers and took time off from work. I'm sorry we where more committed to the grind and im sorry your 15 man company cant fight. We are excepting mergers. The rebranding from verdant to barcode was not to avoid intrepid but rather a 3 guild merger so than verdant 69 would have crafters and gathers rather than just pvp. This game encourages open world pvp and in the words of steven if now is not a good place for you to play come back when its all done and we will accept you. I look forward to the 2 day rest and you seeing none of us banned because we did no wrong. So you were verdant during the exploit and a quick change to another guild immediately after? Verdant, the guild where someone posted the screenshot in Discord showing what appeared to be back to back war win trading? [/qu Just because two wars ended at the same time did not mean it was for exploitive meanings, If we are farming forge, raptors, stallions, a boss. We might have to dec on 2 guilds in order to fight over it. Its not for exploitive gain from the wars its for control of the Obj. Like i said we are excited to see yall after servers come back up so you will see we did not exploit. But by than you will change the story to "steven went easy on them"
Adelissa wrote: » For context, I run a small guild called Heathen Lords with around 30 dedicated members. Recently, a guild named Barcode (formerly Verdant 69) declared war on us. This happened while we were camping raptors to gather some before the larger zergs could take control of them. Barcode/Verdant has a reputation for exploiting mechanics, both on Vyra and previously on Castus, and their actions are making the game nearly unplayable for us. During the war, they’ve occupied all high-level grinding zones and can kill us in towns without consequence. While we’d normally engage in PvP, they’re all equipped with epic and heroic crafted gear, fully enchanted. They obtained this gear by exploiting the guild war rewards system early on, using those rewards to run caravans non-stop after reaching level 25. They achieved level 25 within the first two days by abusing the Carphin and Gravepeak exploits, then used their resources to buy out the player-run marketplaces. The war type they declared was a fishing war, a cheaper alternative to standard guild wars, simply to avoid corruption penalties when killing us and looting any raptors we might have had. Fishing wars, as currently implemented, function identically to normal guild wars but at a fraction of the cost, making them an easy tool for abuse. Barcode is a rebranding of Verdant, likely to cover up their exploitative history. I sincerely hope Intrepid can track this kind of behavior even after guilds disband and rebrand, as leaving it unchecked encourages further abuse and undermines the integrity of the game. Intrepid please read this and understand what exploiting means to the average player who doesn't engage in exploiting and take appropriate action on their accounts. Exploiters will not stop with a simple slap on the wrist that comes with character deletion and gear deletion. There are numerous ways for them to pass on materials to alts in their guild or lower level crafters that didn't engage in the exploits. This behavior needs to be met with bans or it wont be enough.
Adelissa wrote: » Barcode/Verdant has a reputation for exploiting mechanics, both on Vyra and previously on Castus, and their actions are making the game nearly unplayable for us.
