Toon Duplication?

[Maxcrafter]

On Siren, yesterday around early evening EST, Limsa (of course) there was an odd looking set of PCs.. one Level 2 name 'x', the others a pair of Level 90s sharing name 'x ii' - ok. The pairs names were identical.. but you could not search for them using the Friend tool, even though they were standing right in front of you, even with a dozen spelling variations to see about alphanumeric display artifacts. The pair of same-names also appeared to operate and move independently, and were, per examine, DoW and DoM, respectively.

It seemed a bit scary until I thought about it a bit. Their names could be what we end up seeing if strange and wonderful alphanumeric characters were used to spell them, knowing those odd, like early Greek or Roman, say, vowels, would show as identical in present day English.. I really don't know what the game's character resolution or translating capability is when oddball funny-looking 'a with a fishtail' is printed as regular 'a;' for example. If that is what it was, it seems harmless enough visually, but if someone has discovered a means of duplicating toons including their inventory, that I suspect is a catastrophic exploit. I'm not yet certain it wasn't just my setup or an artifact of alphanumeric rendering, so if anyone else has seen it.. say so, so we can maybe figure out if it IS really scary.

da Shootah

[Thorio]

The only toons I know are tiny.

[Kes13a]

they are called bots.

they wont differ much because they are mass made, not duplicated. one RMT ring uses 'server name' - II through VIII for their retainer names, I suspect they do the same for their bot farmers as well.

it is not duplication.

[Misplaced_Marbles]

they are called bots.

they wont differ much because they are mass made, not duplicated. one RMT ring uses 'server name' - II through VIII for their retainer names, I suspect they do the same for their bot farmers as well.

it is not duplication.

Well, technically, you could call it dublication, since it's samey looking character(s) doing the exact same thing they've been doing for years.

da Shootah

Anyway, this happen every time they do that disingenuous "action taken against in-game RMT & other illicit activities" thing. Some got hit, people using them replace them and proceed to use them until SE does another round of nothing for brownie points.

Also, according to your join date, you've been playing for a while already. How could you have possibly missed this until now? They're not hiding since they don't need to, so it should be almost impossible to miss them. Were you living in your personal house for all this time or something?

Edit: and since your account name was a red flag, i felt like cheking your character and possible free company. Turns out it would be excatly like i expected. "Asshats" indeed...