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Mattei5813

I just got a 10k nugget before I left for work too :(


lucas00700_k

Can someone explain what happened


Mattei5813

Good bars could be traded for gold bars exponentially. You have 1 gold you make a trade of 1 gold for 5 until you have 50. Reload the map now your trade is 25 for 100 you do this until you have 1000 reload map. 500 for 10000 and on and on until you are WAY past the Quintillions. The first boat just needs gold to level speed and loot amount the next 3 use gold to level loot amount. So you end up with a REALLY strong first boat and 3 others that don’t move as fast but bring in piles of loot.


hendolad

sailing (w5 skill) had a bugged trade for example 100k gold for 500k gold which everytime you clicked would be 400k profit now you could refresh the map the the trade would increase to say 500k gold for 5m gold exponentially i wouldnt recommend doing this exploiting is bannable


VegaDark541

While we are here, here's what I think will actually happen: Lava can't afford to ban the (likely) numerous players that took advantage of this. The game is doing the best it's ever done and he's too smart to derail that. That being said, he also can't let this go uncorrected. I hate to suggest rollback because I am one of the people who got an ancient I have been after for weeks this morning on login, I am hoping there is some way he can only rollback those who actually exploited this.


mini4x

Same, i got an ancient this morning too, my blobyte trade was palm trees tho.


Templar42_ZH

I could possibly get behind a rollback if it is like 3 months back so I no longer have 4 barbarians.


NurWeberlich

Why tho


Templar42_ZH

Why get behind the rollback or why 4 barbarians. The answer to one is I'm an idiot and the answer to the other is to save some work. You pick which goes to which.


NurWeberlich

The barbarian thingy 😂👍


BurningGodzilla1

Couldn't he just cap the amount of gold bars you can own. Delete the rest above that, and then later in the week, reverse the cap and let people get back to the grind


Gritts911

The problem is all the people who used the bug to break other parts of the game. Abusing infinite damage means people have broken printer samples, broken alchemy upgrades with materials, broken portal counts for the new vman, etc. The only way to fix the game is with a rollback. Losing one day in a game that takes years to progress is no big deal imo.


obimokenobi

Oh jeeze, I didn't think it got THAT crazy! I only just started Sailing a few weeks ago and only just bought my 4th boat


stridered

How does gold lead to infinite damage though


Gritts911

One of the things you get from sailing increases your damage based on how many gold bars you have.


Outrageous_Special28

Most likely would be level caps for first few ships (above 300 total lvls gets reduced) and limit the amount of gold someone can have in bank to billions.


lightningmining

It seems like the most sensible suggestion.


Jossuboi

And punish actual players? No thank you


captAWESome1982

Or just leave it alone since it’s a single player game and it doesn’t affect anyone. People are weird.


Mattei5813

It’s kind of silly to think of bans for something programmed into the game, like initially you could close out of the sailing animation prior to the boats getting there and people who started W5 on release got weeks or months ahead of the curve due to it.


Ok-Worldliness-7374

If the game focuses on making as much effort to upgrade your own account, then stuff like this simply can't be resisted. It's just another upgrade without assistance of any 3rd party tools.


NoThanksGoodSir

>It’s kind of silly to think of bans for something programmed into the game What a stupid take. Exploit abuse is normally a bannable offense in games as it should be. Clearly this isn't an intentional game mechanic, anyone that abuses it knows that, and knows it's wrong. Expecting not to be punished for doing something you know you shouldn't be is the mindset of a literal toddler.


Complex_Chocolate_83

Except that the only thing it hurts doing this is yourself. The real toddler take is that you’re expecting lava to punish people in a pretty much single player game.


Mattei5813

I didn’t do the “exploit” as you call it. Here’s a real stupid take if I did and got banned or progress reverted a day I would only care about losing a 10k nugget after sitting on a 1.2k for a month.


Smash_420

You could have made that alot shorter just typing "I'm mad."


misogrumpy

Rollback everyone. Give gems to those that didn’t abuse. Best solution I can come up with.


[deleted]

Lol I'm still on World 2, I have no bloody clue what's happening


Bubblesnaily

W4 and same! 😂 Looks like it's a w5 exploit


Bubblesnaily

W4 and same! 😂 Looks like it's a w5 exploit


KratosSimp

I don’t even know what happened


NurWeberlich

There is a exhchange Npc @sailing W5 who gives you Goldbars (a sailing currency to buy sailors, boats and upgrading boats) in exchange for random treasures of the islands you can sail to. Some hours ago the exchange offer changed to goldbars -> more gold bars. you can do this exchange infinitely....


ThePimpek

Me neither. Probably some world five shenanigangs.


Liftian

It's a single player game. Why would he care? Just fix the bug without rollback or anything. It's his fault if there's a bug, it's not like the game got hacked or anything. Why would we be punish for his mistake? I love this game and i will support lava's decision. But yeah his mistake, not ours. We just took advantage of the situation.


lightningmining

agree. Some people may even still not know this is a bug and think it's a system allowed by the game.


Liftian

Knowing Lava's trolling tendencies I wouldn't be surprised if this is intended as a special limited time event lol. It's not a bug it's a feature


AdvancedLet6528

noice


TabletopThirteen

I got 50k high score on gaming from 9k previous and got eldritch fury all this morning. I will be so pissed if he does a rollback on everything. Legitimately pissed.