The first exploitation of this zone and some players took maximum advantage of the opportunity to farm up large amounts of Valor points. 506462
Game Zone actually previously predicted this would happen:
When the patch first went live, our very own Andrew Clouther wrote in his initial impressions that the new system would fail due to server imbalance – predicting the faction with more players would crush, camp, and “make the other factions’ life hell””.
And sure enough, that is exactly what happened with this patch.
As GameZone reports:
In some cases, people were rumored to get as many as 20 Valor levels in about 4 hours of fully exploiting the glitch. As you can imagine, this caused quite a bit of controversy from the SWTOR player-base.
Game designer Gabe Amatangelo posted on the official forums that BIoWare has found the “issue preventing this from happening under server load” and published a patch to fix it. In addition to fixing the exploit, BioWare reduced the population cap on Ilum to improve performance.
That’s all well and good but what about the players who exploited this glitch and farmed Valor? Some players are promising to cancel their s if BioWare does not issue a rollback on the Valor. While it’s not certain exactly what BioWare will do about it yet, we do know that they plan to do something about it.
Community manager Joveth Gonzalez did say, “We’re definitely aware of individuals who took extreme advantage of this situation and we will be carefully evaluating and taking action as necessary.”””
Read more at GameZone.
UPDATE: Just as we told you we would keep you updated on the situation, there has now been an official statement from BioWare on the Ilum PvP Issues which you will find on the community news page.
Jeff Hickman, Executive Producer – Live Services, reports:
We have made the decision not to enact a mass ‘rollback’ of Valor points for all give us precise details on where players were, what they were doing and what rewards they gained.
We take any sort of situation where one group of players gains an unexpected or unintended advantage over other players very seriously and will act to ensure that all players can have a fair and fun game experience.
So there you have it, folks. There will not be a mass Valor rollback but they will be taking action on those who were involved:
The amount of Valor granted from these actions in accordance with the severity of the issue.
