majmalphunktion wrote on Oct 8^th, 2013 at 10:18pm:



Sadly the problem was there long before this Saturday....
( I'm almost certain it's been there since U19 )

It just became very obvious on Sarlona on Saturday ( or Friday ), and then it spread like a wildfire and the exploit got posted here and to many other places ( guild boards ).

As for getting things ruined, I got my night ruined. I received a phone call at 2AM for a broken router somewhere in the North of France and had to manage it's replacement... Took me 2 hours to get things organized.

majmalphunktion wrote on Oct 8^th, 2013 at 10:18pm:


The guest who shared the exploit with everyone here did us all a favor. If it was kept as fight club Turbine would be able to ban the select group who were dupping the stuff. Since info got widespread and everyone was cheating they can't ban everyone without the risk of sinking the ship.

And the exploit didn't hurt the game as the doompatrol says it did. It gave what most people really wanted tbh by reducing the stupid grind. A lot of people got better gear and items and are happy to keep on playing the game. Seriously the droprates on scales, items, ingredients and epic stuff is pathetic. And the epic stuff is underpowered now. Whats the point of keeping it that hard to get anyways?

My thanks to the guest who shared and cared. You saved ours and Turbine's bacon with your poll. Time for Turbine to listen to what their playerbase wants and give us more quality content and less grinding.

Seriously - it didn't even take someone posting the exploit itself to figure out how to do it. All you really needed to do was extrapolate from a bug report about things disappearing from the stack and work from there. I was shocked at how easy it was, and I can easily imagine people doing it accidentally via a typo (people who tended to keep stacks of ingredients/collectibles in their banks, at least.)

majmalphunktion wrote on Oct 8^th, 2013 at 10:18pm:


Nobody intended to ruin your day off, and I hope that this weekend's excitement (which Glin has not smoothed out) didn't ruin another attempted day off.

MajMal, can we please have Rowan back?

majmalphunktion wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 9:48am:


Serious question, Majmal, from Quality Manager to Quality Manager:

How do you handle it, when you are having a lot of stress, you stop a moment for thinking and realize that the actual problem is totally abstract and nothing to do with real life?

I am in Fruit and Vegetables, so usually we have "real Problems" (pesticides, rotten products...), but 90% of the time it is bullshit about some number that is wrong in some excel sheet that is anyway bullshit and good for nothing.

That is exactly how I deal with it. No one dies if quality is not met.I can only recommend and show data, and then live with whatever decision is made. There is personal pride and whatnot, but at the end of the day it is swords and boards, and elves and dwarves.

The stress for the most part is not about bugs per se, it is usually about personal interactions, decisions made , communication between departments and stuff like that. The same stressors would be at any office job in a management position.

majmalphunktion wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 10:44am:


Being married to an OR nurse, we have vastly different definitions of "bad day at work". Tends to put things in perspective for me.

Dr_tank2vich wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 11:12am:


Yep, that'll do it.  After working in an ICU for 9 months, you define 'bad days' differently.

"Well, I ain't been shot at, defecated on, assaulted, or almost set on fire today.  Woohoo!"

majmalphunktion wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 9:48am:

Welcome back.

majmalphunktion wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 9:48am:

Cost isn't the problem, the very transition of heroic hearts to a new mechanic is unneeded.

majmalphunktion wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 9:48am:

Please share?  I'm genuinely curious to see into the mind of madness.

majmalphunktion wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 9:48am:

Order a crowbar, from Dead-On, The Annhilator, and beat this into every persons head there.  While not always true, breaking the past to make the future is a REALLY bad idea.

majmalphunktion wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 10:44am:


So do you tell people you work for Turbine, or do you just say you're QA for a software product without going into detail?

Meursault wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 12:16pm:

Just because we know why they made the Delorean by no means does it indicate it was a good idea.

Just because we know why Turbine does something, doesn't mean it will make sense or be good for the game.