Beware the dungeon police!

#1 - Aug. 24, 2014, 12:18 p.m.
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I haven’t sold any dungeon paths in ages as to be honest I get bored while waiting for groups to fill and having to get 3 people to placehold for me to keep the trolls at bay doesn’t really entertain me either.
Although I’ve been placeholding for a friend lately and all of a sudden there’s people joining his groups to check his instances for boss skips and whatnot, he’s always selling legit instances obviously however I find it very interesting and certainly a worthwhile initiative to keep those filthy exploiters from profitting more than they already have from weaknesses in map and dungeon progression design.
There was actually one guy that joined his group and said “I’m arah polizei and your instance is okay!” and then left, I laughed at the time but then realised that if this initiative becomes more widespread we can probably make people think twice before putting up LFGs of exploited instances.
I’ve only seen this happen in Arah so far, though I always boot exploiters selling AC P1 whenever I bother checking the LFG tool for the dungeon and it’s obviously the one that suffers from these issues the most I don’t even bother checking for the waypoint in the Archive as any thief or class other than elementalist in the dungeon’s current design selling ac p1 has either exploited or kicked party members to sell the path so my conscience is clear.
I wonder what you guys think about this development.

#9 - Aug. 24, 2014, 5:54 p.m.
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If you report them, we will come.

#16 - Aug. 24, 2014, 6:43 p.m.
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Yes, I meant report the players exploting the dungeons (in-game report is fine, not a bug report).

:) Sorry for confusion!

#22 - Aug. 24, 2014, 6:59 p.m.
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Ok, let me clarify

“Skips” generally require abuse of terrain to accomplish. An example of this would be “breaking out” of the map in order to bypass content. Doing such would be quantified as exploitation, using an exploit and profiting (“selling” runs) would be quantified as selling an exploit.

I am not talking about running past monsters, or using creative use of leashing/pathing.

Without going into punishment or policy, we are going to be ramping up on GM coverage in dungeons. If you believe that someone is exploiting, please do report them in-game.

#39 - Aug. 24, 2014, 8:35 p.m.
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This thread is getting seriously off topic here and is delving into a much different topic. Closing it before it derails any further.

We have absolutely no problem if you solo a dungeon, or even if you like to explore. However when this becomes a tactic to complete content quicker, or tarnishing other’s play experience by doing so (by “selling” exploited runs), then we have a problem.

Edited for Clarification