In other games you would be banned for revealing an exploit to the public.
Sounds totally backwards to me. Exploits should be as revealed as widely as possible so there is as much incentive as possible to fix them.
People keep seeming to forget the above bolded point. The whole "Wipe so everyone starts off on the same foot" angle is inherently flawed. There will always be players that are further along than others. What happens when a group of people buy the game on Jan 16, 2015 (one month from launch)? Should the game be wiped again so everyone starts out the same?
If anything, I'd argue that NOT wiping would lead to a better launch experience. Give the galaxy a little time to get "warmed up" and populated, so to speak.
I disagree. There is a fundamental difference between the pre-release and post-release phases and I am of the opinion that prerelease assets should not be carried over to the full release.
So UR bragging u cheated or exploited a bug. I would rather do it the hard and fun way, EARN IT!
We are testing the game.
Everyone should be exploiting the snot out of everything they find and otherwise trying to break the game. It's how problems come to be known and thus can be fixed.
Because he did not keep it to himself.
He should have posted a step by step guide.
Guarantee it gets fixed faster when 50% of players are in Anaconda.
Wiping everyone would prove amateur at best.
Maybe after the test phase is over and the game has a full release.
Some have 4-5 missions on the same NPC with a combined payout of nearly a million.
Not really an exploit (unless it's the same faction giving multiple missions for the same thing), nor even the fastest non-exploitative way to make a million credits.
If you can do something to make money by any means that doesnt involve altering the game code or network traffic then it isnt "cheating".
Bug exploits are most certainly cheating. Not all, nor even most, cheating needs to involve hacking.
.... and will make a wipe that bit more likely.
I've both desire and have been planning on a general wipe after Gamma.
Few things are more offensive than games that allow distinct tangible benefits to carry over from test phases. The inevitable backer rewards are bad enough.
Anything that allows anyone to accrue 50 million in 24 hours is utterly and completely broken no matter how you look at it. It defeats the entire point of progression. You'd have literally every ship and upgrade in existence within a week.
It takes about a billion credits to fully deck out an Anaconda.