Don’t wanna know what the exploit is, I play the game to be rewarded for working at obtaining stuff, not for cheating my way to god mode.
I saw the announcement on facebook and someone made the exagerated suggestion of gifting those who never exploited with 10 legendaries and 1,000,000 ISO for being good players.
But that got me thinking, why not do something similar in spirit if nothing else? Send everyone a thank you gift of a legendary or something if they didn’t indulge in the exploit. Sure, continue to punish the cheaters, the hackers and so on but good behaviour should also be rewarded. Possitive reinforcement and all that.
This is something that happens on this scale rarely and it could only help morale and general good will to the company to be given a pat on the head for playing nicely with the other children and not biting or hitting.
As both a psychological researcher and behavioural psychologist I concur that reward is a far better method of behavioural modification and control than punishment it has been proven hundreds of times in research. In short I agree with the poster - I think handing out one solitary reward to all those who did not exploit the system would be both a nice gesture and a reminder that cheaters should not prosper.
Also, I would hate to think that folks who were exploiting, might have done better than others who didn’t in PVE or PVP and prevented them from getting hero points or a needed cover.
Sadly I think that would always be in the realm of supposition.
I mean, I imagine it’s possible to find out which PvPs/PvEs they entered after comitting an exploit (since they can roll back to the time before exploitation began) and adjust the rewards accordingly but that is a LOT of work that rewards players with maybe a cover here or there and some ISO/HP maybe? LOTS of work for a small player reward that would take away from development time they could be using for something more constructive.
A single issue “Thanks for not being a cheating meanie head” reward would be much easier to impliment.
We’ve calculated the average amount of prize winnings missed by the non-cheating userbase and decided to offer everyone the average amount. Please enjoy your prizes
the 1 hp would not be any better. all hp costs in the game are factors of 5 and 10, meaning your hp pile always ends in nice neat 5 or 0 numbers. ending in 1s and 6s would drive many mad
