Age of Conan

Originally posted by templarga

There is no way someone is level 80. This is going to be a rough estimate but I think remotely accurate:

Game came up at 4:00EDT on Saturday, May 17th. It was up for approximate 22 hours then it went down for maintenance at 2:00pm EDT on May 18th. It was down I believe until 5:00PM May 18th and then was taken down again today around 4:00EDT; thats another 23 hours (if math doesn't fail me).

Thats a total of ~45 hours play time. That would mean they got a level every 33 minutes (roughly).

Okay, since I was in open beta, I can tell you that (and I think its well-known) that its a quest based game. It takes hours, even knowing what you are doing, to get through Tortage!

Considering that levels probably increase exponentially in required experience its naturally going to take longer and longer to get each level. Also the TIME to do the quests will increase as well.

In other words, it is humanly impossible even if they played 24 hours a day.

Its clearly an exploit. Also, remember its a PVP server so with ganking and such it would take longer to level.

Its easy for Funcom to see if they exploited. First, take the AVERAGE level of players on the server and then those who are much higher, take their quest log and see if they exploited. And to repeat the same quest over and over and over again is clearly an exploit.

With that said, Funcom will come down on them very hard and I expect them to even make a post about it and inform the community of the consequences.

Im not saying they aren't exploiting because I know they are but I just wanted to point out to the fact that these guys are ahead of everyone on the leveling curve, there isn't anyone to gank them on a pvp server.

Plus it's not that bad as most people think, you can level on a pvp server about as fast as on a PvE server, unless you are tagged with a guild that is on a lot of people's KoS list.

i hope funcom will come down hard on these lamers . every one of them should be  banned . if funcom cant see that these guys have used explotes to lvl then there no hope for this game . this will put a lot of people off if they read these forums.

Originally posted by Arkane_A

http://www.ebonlore.org/dkp/listmembers.php?o=6.0&filter=none

5 level 80's for them already, exploiting for sure. For those who want to say it isn't true, their level had been confirmed in game before they took the servers down.

Best thing to do is just wait for the new PVP servers and everyone switch there, then these idiots will have nothing to kill but themselves. 

Thats what i'd do.

If u want to PVP, wait for a new PVP server to open.  It will be free of most of these exploiters. 

lot of people are using exploits not just those guys Funcom can't really do much rather than patch it up and bans some of obvious players. But the smart guilds there are gonna keep quiet about the ones they find out. There are plenty of 50s from what i heard in Set.

If there are level 50s out there from not even 3 full days of gaming , then I dare say funcom is going to have a rough time keeping playing interest after a few months. If it is true that a guild actually has a built a village already that is a serious design issue.

That means within a month average players reach 80. Figure another month of pvp sieges, i just can't say this bode well for game longevity.

Unless they have an expansion ready to spring out in three months (and I doubt it), this game might have a life like a dying star. A burst of brillant gameplay followed by a black hole...

(edited out)

The ganking was never horrible in UO.  When u died you could easily rez safely from a healer away from where you died.  I never had a problem with it.

That being said, UO PVP was the best ever and nothing today or in the future will ever match it, never.

I am personally okay with people getting to 80 quickly. As long as they have lots of endgame content, I'll be happy. But if Siege Battles are anything like Guildwars Guild Battles, then I'll never get tired of Siege Battles :)

You guys ever try using the search function? No one in Ebonlore is 80.  The highest they have is mid-high 50's.  If you have the critical thinking skills of an 8th grader you will realize all the "80's" are IC.  they are having a guild competition to 80 and the IC are not included so they set their DKP level to 80 to take themselves out of it.  Wow, I've never seen such obvious slander with absolutely no proof.

I don't believe you can get banned for exploiting since it is not using any third world programs.  The definition of exploiting is "use or manipulate to one's advantage".  If Funcom decides to ban their account, legal issues will take place.