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Few things:

1) It involves leves hence on the pay roll
2) going payroll 2 to pay roll 3 = gaining 90k gil
3) Going payroll 3 to payroll 4 = gaining 900k gil

Being as he gained 3 levels and 90k between payroll 2 and 3, he would have had to have gained 1.6million exp, thus gaining levels 20-35, not 20-23.

Then again from 23-34 he gained 900k gil, which would require enough exp to level 3 crafters 1-50 and only gained 11 levels.

They are using leves, but this HAS to be a memory editor/exploit involved to modify the gil/exp reward, otherwise the exp would line up better. Which would also explain how they got all those levels from basically 1 hand in since it takes longer than a minute to run back grand another and hand it in.

This also means this another form of gil duping/hacking so watch out for trying to reproduce this as it is 100000% garunteed to get you banned, and your gil removed.

Edited, Oct 7th 2013 1:20pm by dustinfoley

Hmm, I don't know if that should make me feel better or worse... I'd almost want it to be an in-client hack because correction of it would be relatively easy, just put a check on the server to ensure the reported % of EXP gain is not over what can possibly be done. An exploit of the leve turn-ins sounds... somehow worse.

Im guessing another round of ol' gil confiscation incoming

I love this idea. It would just be hilarious.

And preceded, then followed, by the wastes of space that cackle at the misery of others who get screwed despite following the rules.

I remember making a suggestion in a thread once, but if they did a barter and trade economy system it'll end RMT.. be cause there's no in game money. Say you want a stack of something at an NPC trader. The game could read your inventory and select something of equal worth to give as payment. Or tell you to go collect something that the NPC wants. Kinda like a quest.

Same can be done for player to player transactions.. list something in the market boards you have and select what you want for it.

RMTs don't exist because in-game currency exists. RMTs exist because there are objectives in this game that require time and effort to obtain, and RMTs offer a way to achieve those objectives with real money instead of time and effort. You can't get rid of RMT without getting rid of objectives that require time and effort.

10 SoJ! GoGO!

Could make something of a 'Scared Straight' program out of it too. Send griefers and wrist slap offenders to that server for a day or two as punishment.

"This could happen to you!"

That doesn't sound like "Scared straight" so much as "pure bliss" for them.... hundreds of targets that never blacklist them. It's spambot heaven.

It'd be difficult to imagine that SE doesn't know about it. They may not know what to do about it right now though.

And the longer it goes on, the worse that sentence gets.

I assume you felt used from the people who 'warped in', but the spawn location of the unspoiled are very exact and I don't find it strange that there are already people lying in wait in that location (and sometimes if you notice some of them don't start gathering). I spent good 2 hours on Sunday logging/mining cluster on the side while fishing to 50 and I can tell there are pretty much only 3 or so spots for logging and 3 for mining that spawn at the exact in-game hour. That and saving GP to use +2 per gather skill instead of Toil can net you 15 x of Spruce Log per spawn, and if you are quick you can get it quick enough you can get all 3 spots you can get 45 Log an in-game day. I know there are a lot of teleport bots but a normal dedicated player can still get a lot of those 'rare' material.

If you look at XIV App it has an alert function that will alert you if you input the in-game time (I assume) and you can guess pretty much those waiting people are probably multi-boxers who put alert on so they don't miss out their next gathering chance.

Edited, Oct 7th 2013 11:31pm by Khornette

I remember disciplesoftheland does.

Just in case someone doesn't know, you can have Truth of the Forest/Mountain on on any DoL. Fishing for lvl 50 in Coerthas and I got >200 clusters in that time span.

Edited, Oct 7th 2013 11:39pm by Khornette