Any Word About The Alien Res Exploit?
MMZ_Torak
Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 3770Members
Has it been nullified? Is it actually something that can be reproduced intentionally or is it a game glitch? If it is intentionally reproduceable, can you tell who is doing it in game or only from server logs? I read the 1.04 changelog and did a search for it here and didn't come up with much.
In case you haven't noticed this in action, it gives aliens massive amount of res instantly. For example:
I was playing on Tanith the other day. I was a skulk and we started in Fusion Reactor. By the time I had made it to the dual resource area I had max res. I went gorge and immeadately had max res again.
In case you haven't noticed this in action, it gives aliens massive amount of res instantly. For example:
I was playing on Tanith the other day. I was a skulk and we started in Fusion Reactor. By the time I had made it to the dual resource area I had max res. I went gorge and immeadately had max res again.
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It was probably mid-end game
there is a bug in the game that will allow aliens to have alot of res however
since nobody else has commented on it, i dont want to say too much about how it works etc either..
i havn't tested 1.04 to see if its stil there tho
in 1.03 there was a way to use the leave-team and give gorge rps cheat with out being caught , if u bound a button to readyroom;jointeam2 when u had died then u never looked as tho u where in the rr
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In 1.03, all aliens joining during the first n seconds would get 10 rp; I am not sure how large n was, but it's around a minute at most IIRC. Joining midgame wouldn't give you any free rp.
We were midway through a game and a guy joined the game as an alien under the name cssucks. He immediately started complaining about the aliens using a resource exploit because he got all these resources immediately upon joining. Well the game had been going for some time and the aliens were stuck at one hive so obviously those resources came from the resource pool. We said as much to him and then finished the game.
Next game. I joined aliens and we were in sewers (ns-caged) as I joined I noticed that this cssucks guy was already gestating to gorge and had obviously chosen to do so the instant he joined the game. He had made a few comments in the previous game so I was a little suspicious of him and fully expected to see him dump a bunch of sensory chambers or something so I followed him. He walked around to vent through shipping tunnel, closed the door and dropped a defense tower behind it. Then he went down and built the resource tower then he walked into the hive and dropped the other resource tower and started the hive (which I actually didn't notice immediately) all in the space of about hmm... 30-45 seconds.
At that point I thought it was odd but had answered a call by one of the skulks to help out at marine base(and i hadn't actually seen him drop the second resource and hive, i just found out afterwords). On my way I noticed I had 33 resources so after I attacked the marines I went to drop a tower. As soon as I did I got all my resources back. Thats when I noticed the second hive was half done already. At this point the game has been going for MAYBE a minute or two and we already almost have our second hive plus a crapload of resource towers (plus I noticed another gorge dropping a ton of OC's and Dc's in sewer vest.)
I don't know how it works but it is a definite exploit. Before I could get him banned Cssucks left and we all f4'd and restarted. Well what do you know? He had come back with a different wonid and different name and jumped into the command chair, recylced the entire base and dropped like 3 or 4 command chairs. We knew it was him because he said "I'm back! <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->"
Anyhow. the exploit exists and can really ruin a game. If it is as someone mentioned something caused by hundreds of trips back and forth to the readyroom then I guess we are either going to have to remove the resources completely when you leave the game as was suggestd in the early 1.04 update or find another solution to prevent this sort of abuse.
btw his second wonid was 3120497 the first one i have as well but somebody else told me it and I'd hate it to be in error.
As for the name of the variable, you'll have to look it up yourself. I think it's under the create game->advanced menu though, if you want a place to start.
- According to the final changelog, <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> - Aliens lose all their points when they leave the team, and the team doesn't get them either (this will be revisited in v1.1) <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
- The join-F4 exploit appears to be likely, but won't ever create as much cashflow as the old 'leave-rein' exploit due to its short nature.
- The alien resource system will be overhauled in 1.1.
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