Quote Originally Posted by Angelas View Post
At first I felt like it was an exploit but thats a tricky term when it comes to what actually happened.

To best explain what I mean I will use this example, 5 years ago in FFXI there was a situation where you could have one scroll of the spell Holy and when you sold it to an NPC you got the gil but the item didnt leave your inventory, that to me is an exploit, something that was happening that wasnt supposed to happen. A game design that was flawed and the players were using it to make endless amounts of money.

This really isnt an exploit, basically you were trading in flame seals and spending them with the values created by SE. You were getting the correct amount of items and selling them to npcs for the correct value they were intended to be sold by. So there really was no exploit, it was more an oversight since the system was working properly in all cases. I dont care what they call it, it was their system and it was working as intended so I dont see how that was an exploit really.

It would be totally different if they were getting extra voidstones by tricking the system or something encoded in the NPC sales system wasnt working properly but that wasnt the case.

An exploit? Sorry I dont think so. (Also I didnt know what they were doing until 1 hour before SE went in and changed the drop rate for the clusters). I didnt get a chance to benefit from this situation so I dont have a dog in the fight, just calling it like I see it.
I was under the impression that the exploit was people who would kill atmos, warp to town, turn in cluster, warp back, kill atmos again. Giving a gaurenteed 12k per 18+24 plus all the extra crystals you got (leading some ppl to get 20k+ per session).