Dicksharpe wrote:I think the player should be rewarded with weekly reward and gold (4 million I think) but I don't think his overall score should have been allowed to stand as it destroyed the games integrity, in my opinion.
I personally have no problem if a player gets 4 million something...i am playing against players with all the cards of the stronger faction already...so one more wont make any difference...
BUT...in general terms this is not so clear. Any exploit...EVEN IF THE PLAYER HAS NO FAULT...cannot usually be accepted as it tilts the game somewhere...usually it is not just one player and if a group of players that gains any "unwarranted" advantage will both annoy those that didn't and incentive all those that want to progress faster (no matter what)...
Considering my opening phrase above...if it were MANY MORE players, then i would have an issue...BIG ONE. As playing PVP would become much much harder...and as you say...there is always the "image" that the game conveys...
In simple terms...humanity is what it is...and IF players think an exploit will be allowed to stand they will LOOK FOR ONE and JUMP ON ONE ON EVERY OPPORTUNITY...
Games usually rollback "big" exploits...all games that i know of...and including some earlier on this game...
By the way...in THIS CASE i dont even know if it was deliberate, bug or whatever...and AGAIN...i dont really care...(player in question was always correct in games, no issue so far)
10.000 Lemmings can't be wrong...