As requested, moving to the appropriate thread.
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Originally Posted by relentlessflame
As for reverting his parameters as a balance issue... the parameters he has are valid (within acceptable parameters), just that he didn't earn them within the ALO game.
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Then they are acceptable parameters that wasn't working as it's supposed to be. Still within game balance issue methinks. Happens all the time with a lot of games in history.
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Originally Posted by relentlessflame
All that to say, despite how he got to this point (through this cheat/exploit), I think at this point there isn't really any reason for Cardinal Jr. to think he's destroying game balance. Because he's probably one of the only people who've tried this, the current people running the game aren't necessarily aware of the need to patch the vulnerability.
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A bug is a bug even if it isn't widely known. A lot of games have a patch fix up and running almost immediately after release nowadays. And an ideal debugging is to fix the bug before it gets too widely known anyways. And again, even if it isn't a bug, a lot of games also fix previously perfectly working skills to balance the game out as the players find ways to min-max everything.
So, I think it has to be coded in beforehand, even if it wasn't a complete code. Maybe not in the ALO game itself, but deep in the very engine of it, such that even Cardinal does not consider it a bug or an issue (or simply out of its reach).