Hi all,
In this latest update, we have fixed the following issues...
- The Guild Chat notification now dissappears if you are no longer in a guild.
- Guild members who have been inactive for more than 7 days are no longer viable targets in Guild Conflicts (unless they are already involved in the conflict).
- The way relic bonuses are applied has been adjusted so that bonuses from skills are now applied before the relic bonus is applied.
~ The Fallen Sword Team
However, last night we had a conflict initiated against us by a Top 70 GvG guild; they are not, to my knowledge, an RP farming guild, and certainly are not a solo guild. It was a 1v1 conflict, and we knew who the hitter was because one of the guys getting hit logged on later. However, he had only 24 hits made against him, and we have a player in our guild who is 9 days inactive No other targets were available in the attacking player's range. Therefore, we had no choice to but to assume our inactive was being hit; when we tossed a deflect on the inactive player, the hits noticeably slowed down. Towards the end of the conflict, I was actually online and noticed that more than 1 hit per two minutes was occuring, so there is no question that our inactive was being targeted.
Following is a conversation I had in game with the diplomat from that guild. Names removed for privacy purposes.
17:01 19/Jan/2010 To xxxxx: Need to discuss the actions of one of your guild members last night, if you're willing. I'm trying to ascertain if [attacker] is aware that you're not supposed to be able to hit players more than 7 days inactive in a conflict - as in, not supposed to be able to because the game isn't supposed to allow it, not as in there are 'rules' our guild likes to follow.
17:08 19/Jan/2010 [ Report Message ] xxxxx says: I think I'm the wrong one to talk too, sound more to me that if your not able to hit them because the cows put that into function yet you are able to hit them something is broke. We have the same issues and have pruned out a lot of inactive due to that problem. I would submit a ticket to the cows on this issue, and I can't believe we are the only ones that have hit an inactive.
17:19 19/Jan/2010 [ Report Message ] xxxxx says: You can talk to [my founder] but there will be no punishment or reprimand that I can hand out. That to me is like saying don't hit people in crystal gear, if they are going to wear it off line that's their own fault. The GvG stuff in my opinion has gotten out of hand and if anyone is exploiting the cows rules it's the - 5 people guilds which are a far greater threat than hitting an inactive.
17:24 19/Jan/2010 To xxxxx: Again, I don't see this as the same as hitting crystalline - this is not a rule my guild wants to make, it *is not* supposed to be possible to hit players more than 7 days inactive; it's taking advantage of a coding failure to do something that isn't supposed to even be possible. Thank you for your time.
17:26 19/Jan/2010 [ Report Message ] xxxxx says: Then it is the cows issue only they can fix. Submit a ticket and hopefully they will fix it.
17:26 19/Jan/2010 To xxxxx: You're right, they're the ones that need to fix it, but let me get this straight - until they fix it, you have no problems with your guildmates exploiting that bug?
17:28 19/Jan/2010 [ Report Message ] xxxxx says: Until the hole is plugged for all I have no issue at all with it.
I'll let that conversation speak for itself.

