Gold Piece
June 27 2005 10:24 PM EDT
Well here goes, actually it is quite simple and don't doubt many people no about it.Well here is what happened,my character "Gemstone" wasn't working for anymore after I messed around with it's strategy, so I decided to use my storage character "Money truck".Now money truck is low mpr, ok ok well he's low in everything of course.I fooling around and was going to transfer money over to Money Truck to Gemstone.That's when the BA price for Money Truck caught my attention.The price was 43, yet the price per BA for Gemstone was 167.I thought to myself I could mabey use the money from gemstone to buy BA on Money Truck for a cheaper price.So I transfer Gemstone's money over to Money Truck and bought 25 BA to test my theory.Well it worked and in my opinion players should not be able to do this considering it is of course taking advantage of the game.So I would ask this bug/exploit be fixed, because this causes a big difference.
Gold Piece
June 27 2005 10:29 PM EDT
sorry if that post was too long, I was nervous and didn't think about splitting it into 2 or so paragraphs.
Undertow
June 27 2005 10:46 PM EDT
That's very strange. Your case is unique, actually.
Usually the cost to buy BA is based on your highest MPR character.
For example, my highest character is Undertow. However I haven't used Undertow for.... well... weeks?
My cost to buy BA when I stopped using Undertow was 257 CB$. I've used Death and he's risen through the ranks, and now my cost to buy ba is STILL 257$.
So, like I said, that's weird, and I think it might be just you.
Gold Piece
June 27 2005 11:02 PM EDT
I wonder if it can be fixed.I mean I don't want to be viewed as a cheater.
csraven
June 27 2005 11:23 PM EDT
im pretty sure if a "bug" is there then Jon will fix it... dont worry, telling us this goes to at least you have the honor to report "bugs", even if their in your favor...
Undertow
June 27 2005 11:23 PM EDT
You won't. Just don't exploit it.
Gold Piece
June 27 2005 11:43 PM EDT
ok I'm not getting it, now both of my characters BA cost is 43.Yet yesterday the price for Gemstone was 167 and I don't know what Money Truck's was.Am I missing something,because I have a feeling I am.
a 1k MPR character shouldn't cost 167
LumpBot
June 27 2005 11:59 PM EDT
I am going to guess you either unlearned you stats or fired minions because gemstone doesn't have any PR to increase BA costs
Gold Piece
June 28 2005 12:05 AM EDT
nvm about this topic, I have figured out what was wrong
[T]Vestax
June 28 2005 2:22 AM EDT
Actually after you readjust BA price with the current NUB rate a 1k character could easily be paying $167 per BA.
As far as I can tell though, this stroy could still be true. I get 8 BA refresh with my top char, but when I use my low char a number of times AND have low char currently selected dring BA refresh, I get 10 BA instead of 8. I thought I could use this to my advantage by using a fraction of BA then wait for my BA to get to 160 at 10 per 10 minutes.
This of course does not work out though, since the game keeps track of your character usage and after the second refresh the rate started to drop again. Hence it became just better to use all my BA on the top character if that is the character I wanted to raise up.
However, this does seem a bit abusive if it is allowed with BA buying as well. Maybe it doesn't matter cause LazyGamer said nevermind (without explaination) or maybe it's something that was intentionally put into the game but needs to be fixed.
IIRC, BA price use to be based upon the 'active' character. Maybe this is a remnant of the old system?
AdminG Beee
June 28 2005 5:08 AM EDT
Look at the last couple of posts from the 26th
on this thread.
Jon fixed a problem found regarding the BA purchase price and characters owned by the same user.
This thread is closed to new posts.
However, you are welcome to reference it
from a new thread; link this with the html
<a href="/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001Ou2">Possible bug/Exploit</a>