12-02-2004, 03:32 PM
Magicbag,Dec 1 2004, 02:26 PM Wrote:During the latest server wackiness, the servers have rolled back because of bad lag. When these occur, it seems experience and location are rolled back, but items, quests, and talent points are not. This leads to situations (though hardly predictable for exploit purposes) where items (even uniques!) can be aquired multiple times through quest rewards, characters who level and then are rolled back retain their talent points, leading to extras (and possible unfair long-term advantage).
I can see how the item problem would happen, although it's a very minor issue, unless one could predict with some certainty that a server rollback is going to happen -- or can figure out a way to force a server rollback. However, the talent issue would be a *huge* concern, which makes me wonder -- are you sure it happens? One gets one and only one talent point each level, so it's easy to spot when someone has too many talent points. I would be amazed if the game didn't have a sanity check to make sure that a person had the correct number of talent points that they should have when they level. If this bug really is in place, make sure to submit some strongly worded /bug's. This is something that should be fixed right away and luckily should be very easy to fix.