[GI] Seprom Glitch

So as a returning player I began noticing a lot of players were constantly hitting their maximum values. I later found out that this was down to the fact that players had abused a seprom glitch that was discovered some time ago. The fact that this makes it close to impossible for new players to compete is frustrating.

What's stopping BigPoint from reducing everyones values back to 0? If some people have put seprom on legit, give them a warning of a week before the wipe to ensure that this is completed fairly.

 

All the players who have used the glitch have already been banned, suspended, or cleared of their installed Seprom. The remaining players have it on through legitimate means. Personally, I rarely play, but I log on every day/every other day to sell/install Promerium/Seprom. Currently, I have over 4 million installed in lasers, 700 thousand in rockets, and well over 100 thousand minutes on speed and shield generators. Pretty sure I had over 10 million on lasers before the Vortex of Terror event.

But the players you meet have it done through legitimate means. Anyone who has abused the glitch (more than 1x repition) have been addressed properly.

 

I play every day and my Sep count is going up simply by reducing the amount of NPC's I shoot. I don't currently have any NPC missions to complete and only a few PVP ones left. I still need roughly 2 bil EP to level up (and start the lvl 22 npc missions) so will be able to save Sep up for a while yet.
I don't care about rank I worked out I'd have to do 30 or 40 Hades per week plus other gates for the next few months just to get from basic captain to basic major and would need at least 4 or 5 years to get to General. I have 8.8 million rank points - General is currently 1.7 billion. I'm not prepared to commit that sort of time, effort, cost, to a game with less than 2 years life span.
Plus, since the merges we have soooo many Generals, Legacy Generals etc, rank has become pointless. I was in a group the other night popping bases, out of the 8 in the group i was the only one without at least one star - Rank in its current form is meaningless.

I don't know what level you are or what level your sep lab is but if you want to save sep, stop shooting npcs and save it for pvp.
Get your sep lab to at least lvl 18 (mine is now 19), shoot minimal npc's and your sep will add up.

 

What's your source of this? I can only remember one official announcement of actions being done for one "bug" that could be abused to get Seprom, but even that had objectionable effect*. There has been countless "bugs" for getting silly amounts of Seprom, and as far as I'm aware they generally have not been touched(other than the bugs being fixed).

*Due to people passing it on via cargo, also making even bystanders become apart of it and at least I don't remember if anything came after that. (other than taking care of the accounts that did the exploit)

 

There you have it, that's the one. There is nothing else that can nor needs to be done.

 

Ok so in your place I would not be so sure about that. I personaly know alot of people who still have millions of seprom in their ships ... just on lasers. There were screenshots of people with 1 bil seprom on lasers. Sorry to say that but almost no one got banned I didn't use it cus i was not active during that period. And i regret not beeing.(to be 100% honest if i could i would too use it to be able to shoot without thinking it would end. Too bad it is over so now i don't shoot as much npc to save up seprom for fights.) And thouse people where reported so many times and nothing. And if some one has more than 180 mil on lasers he used a bug 100% why? Huh well the game has been around 11 years if you had max skylab the first week or so you would have gained 18 mil seprom for 11 years (that is if you had never put seprom on rockets or generators just on lasers ans if you have never shot 1 laser 1 time while with seprom ).
You are 100% wrong people still play still have their seprom and it is unfair for the new guys. They should set every one to 0 and one / two weeks is more than enought for you to spend most of your seprom. And if they would do such a thing it should be before the new maps and seprom in assembly ... or atleast put a cap of 10 mil on lasers ...and every one above that would lose it ...

 

Well, sucks. Suck it up, big boy. Players who have absolutely abused the system have been banned. As for those with billions, perhaps Photoshop. Even if everyone's Seprom amounts were reset, we will still have people like you complaining once again in a few weeks because you do not know how to adequately use ammo.

 

So you really believe a guy that is active every day and still has 220 million sep got it without using one of the many past exploits?
NB; I've seen his screenshots.

 

ahahahahah hey wake up! what you are saying is untrue, i know a lot of player that have BILLION of sprom in their laser.
most of UFE that were playing when there was that bug have billion or milion of seprom.
almost everyone that you see botting aliens have used this seprom bug.

the truth is that BP cannot ban them because otherwise this game will die, and in my opinion is unfair to ban samone that used a bug caused by BP lack of competence.

 

Hello FearMeix,

Thank you all for assisting the user with their concern. As stated in the Official announcement;
Permanently Banned 595 Accounts
Removed 14.5 Trillion Seprom
Removed 94 Trillion Credits
Removed 3.25 Trillion Promerium

The users were dealt with.

Closing as answered/prevent flaming.