Severestormsteve1 I agree completely. Most people have run one of these bugged missions at some point, or even several. When going through the server's logs, I made sure I only even looked at missions where there could be no question that something was wrong. Imagine, for example, running around a 180 raider mission after every single one had vanished, picking up the last 150 crates without ever encountering any resistance. In those cases, the player knows something is up.
So I had narrowed down the list to only look at the missions where the player 100% had to know something was wrong. I then only looked at players who had ran a certain number of those. To error on the side of caution, there were players who ran at least 1 of those "they know it's bugged" missions per day, and I didn't bother taking away any of their points. Players who ran many missions, where they had to know they were bugged, then got listed in order of how many points they actually earned from those missions. There was a clear line where people above it were abusing the bug, and those below probably were not. The top 3 on that list gained 90 million XP, 80 million XP, and 48 million XP. After that people were in the 100 thousand and under ranges. That's a very clear line between those 3 people and everyone else. It was people who knew what they were doing, had discovered a bug they could exploit, and then taking full advantage of it.
Those 3 people were the only ones who had XP and food taken away from them, and I only deducted what they had "earned" over the past 25 days. I feel I was more than fair, especially since those 3 people undoubtedly benefited from that bug for more than the past 25 days.
I do understand what you're saying though, and I try to ever avoid punishing people based on game bugs. I had to make an exception with this though, since a few guys were able to use it to climb way out ahead of everyone else. I should also point out that they were all HC guys who participate in fort battles. It isn't fair to let them use the bug exploit to rise above the other players who they regularly battle.
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