How is "recharging" items not an exploit?

[Danth]

Originally Posted by renordw [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I see, so do the devs officially support recharging items? If so, I can't even imagine what kind of exploit would be frowned upon.

As others have said, recharging is indeed supported here and could be removed any time if developers so wished, as it was on Red. It's regarded as a feature, not an exploit. Exploits that have resulted in disciplinary action include dupe bugs and pushing monsters into the geometry in such a manner that they couldn't attack the player(s). Some classic exploits, such as the Overthere-Skyfire zone line fear pathing glitch, were never reproduced on P1999. In the long run, the distinction between feature and exploit lies solely at the discretion of the server staff.

Watching the big guilds host their recharge sessions is quite amusing: It looks like nothing quite so much as a bread line.

Danth

[Lojik]

It actually took a good bit of work just to implement recharging, they won't take it out

[JackFlash]

Originally Posted by lurk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Recharging was nerfed in Luclin mostly due to using rez staff to skip clearing VT. It's clearly an exploit but wasn't widely known about until Luclin.

Rez staff also used to fein drag a rez class to the PoM portal in ToV.....

[Signal]

No one is recharging a rez staff here. Too expensive.

[Pokesan]

because staff doesn't consider it an exploit

duh?

[Izmael]

It takes platinum out of the system which is a Good Thing.

[Sodors Finest Poster]

Originally Posted by Izmael [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It takes platinum out of the system which is a Good Thing.

Imagine if the tens of thousands of plat were not spent every week by "top end" guilds. P99 platinum would have the same value as Sodor bucks.

[maskedmelon]

It is an important pp sink and is classic, but yes, there is no way to rationalize it as anything but an exploit.

[Lojik]

Honestly, I feel like eq devs leaving out [an intended] ability to recharge a lot of items was silly, and the "exploit" filled a void of a game feature that probably should have been more prevalent.

[fadetree]

Well, the point of this server is not to present a 'corrected' version of the game, but rather a 'correct' version of the game as it was in the day, which means explicitly reproducing stuff that people considered broken/exploits. It's not perfect and they do have a few variances but in general that's the idea.