BruceWayneDK wrote: Now they are asking coalitions to sign a letter to the support team asking for a fix of the issue. We aren’t signing it out of the spirit of ‘dirty hands having no clean stake in fixing the issue’. You used the exploit for whatever reason and are now feigning an outcry to have it closed. The fix is needed. But be aware that they knew of this exploit along with already using a method to take advantage of it. We sat silent and watched. We posted a forum thread about the exploit and took note of the responses along with who made them. If this post offends your sensibilities and you feel the need to attack me or my peeps, save it as we won’t engage in any back and forth over this issue. BruceWayneDK
BruceWayneDK wrote: I then demonstrated what was happening using a dummy coalition. Afterwards, I started screen grabbing each coalition’s points throughout events. Low and behold, many of the top coalitions were using this tactic to bolster their points and keep the lower coalitions out of top 10.
BruceWayneDK wrote: Don’t reach out to us and ask for proof or evidence. BruceWayneDK
BruceWayneDK wrote: We were quickly sited as having used the exploit to Point Boost. One of our best scorers recently had an issue mid event that required a sub. In belief of doing the right thing, we had player A spend all their charges in DE while player B spent all of their charges in their coalition. We then moved player B over (with no charges) and their combined points were less than the maximum achievable by one player. We understand the advantage of allowing rosters to stay open during an event. That is where the system as is helps. But this was not how it was used by others. This is still not what we want to see in the game.
BruceWayneDK wrote: DE wants the rosters to either lock completely until completion of the event OR we want the player’s points to leave when they leave a team mid event.
paralistalon wrote: Holy drama Batman! All I got from this thread is that there is a clear exploit to boost your team's points, so finishing Top 10 in an event right now is pretty hard unless you have a huge coalition that you can draw upon to execute the exploit effectively. I'm having a hard time seeing why this is such a big deal.
BruceWayneDK wrote: You see, we were #2 and ahead by over 200 pts from 3rd place. Magically, within a matter of 45 minutes, there was a 400 point swing that knocked us down to 3rd place. A swing that was mathematically impossible due to the timing of the event and the capacity for valid charges to be burned.
BruceWayneDK wrote: Dear D3Go/Hibernum, Many of the leaders of the top coalitions in your Magic the Gathering: Puzzle Quest game came together to discuss the possible exploit of a loophole in your coalition event scoring system. Coalitions can currently use the points of extra members that swap in and out of the coalition during events towards their total event score. As a community, we feel that this breaks the spirit of the competition as the main determinant to winning will become the number of people that can be coerced into giving away their points rather than team excellence. We have collectively agreed to refrain from these tactics because we care about the integrity of the game. Even though we represent a substantial portion of the top players, we cannot ensure that the loophole will not be abused, and at best our efforts will only delay the inevitable arms race should this issue remain unresolved. It is our expectation that closing this loophole is a high priority for you as rampant abuse will undermine the coalition competition aspect of the game that is the primary draw for many of the top spenders in the game. The current system if not abused does have it’s positive side. It provides flexibility to coalitions in case individuals unexpectedly can’t play and need to be replaced after the event starts. We understand the sensitive nature of spreading this kind of information, so we have chosen to not draw attention to it on the forums, but please understand that this is a very important and immediate concern to the most vocal of your customers. What we want is an assurance that this loophole will be closed, and a planned timeframe for doing so. Signed
Fiddler wrote: The best way to address any bugs or exploits found in the game is to raise a support ticket. This forum is for players, not developers. If you can demonstrate a problem or provide evidence an exploit is in use support will pass it to the development group.
Skiglass6 wrote: I understand the concept of the exploit. The easiest fix is that the coalition score should be the ribbons that the current members have. No exploit for that. This is a D3 issue. But most importantly is your use of "mathematically impossible". I will assume since your team was up 200 ribbons that the event was giving more than 1 ribbon per battle. So lets use NOP so there are no secondary objectives. 20 members x 5 battles (1 regen) X 5 ribbons = 500 ribbons. 45 mins/5 battles = 9min/battle. Definitely doable. Maybe need to provide more details for me to believe your mathematical impossibility. I am not saying that they or anybody else out there are not using the exploit. If there is and exploit out there, someone is probably using it. One might say that you are currently using it to prove your point, since you are #1 in current event.