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Kefkai

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Sunday, November 18th 2012, 9:35am

Quoted from "camagic;577598"

I would agree that it is a bug in the system if it only happened once, or repeatedly.

The reason not to believe it is a bug in the system:

Player 1 tried to get herald in a siege and could not. Tried with a second player and could not get it still. Took a third player, gaining another 1000 merits, to get it.

The next siege player 1(same from above) could get herald.

Next siege player 1 (saa) could get herald.

Next siege player 1(saa) could not get herald again, traded off merits, and 2nd player could.

Both times herald was not intially working the opposing team obvisiously just got it as they were making a push under fearless.

edit: (for clarification)
I believe it is a glitch in rom, but that it is only happening sometimes indicates there is an external factor triggering/using it, thus an exploit. Much akin to the old, old warden buffs of hoto/poto/ponc having a graphic animation that caused other players to crash out.


Really I've heard some paranoid things on this forum, but this has to be one of the most paranoid things I've ever heard.

Problem is more than likely the player than anything else, is the player collecting the merits outside of the general area where the crystal is? The crystal has a certain radius to it where you receive herald and clicking it while you're in range won't fix it. That's why I always collect outside of the throne room at the inner gate, that way people can run along and go out faster too.

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Sunday, November 18th 2012, 9:17pm

I have to agree with Kef here, though not knowing precisely *where* Camagic's guildie was when he/she was trying to become Herald is a bit of a problem.

On those occasions when I've been Herald (roughly every other siege, switching off with one or two other guildies), in most of them I've had to go up to the throne level in order to make it work. There have, however, been a couple of times when I've been able to simply go in as far as the guild vault area and become Herald. This does *not* always work, and it only takes a few seconds to negotiate the ramps and get to the area immediately between the throne and the honor crystal to be sure of it.

Not an exploit, IMO.

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Monday, November 19th 2012, 8:06am

@ Kef

Hopefully you are right and it is an error in the game with *where* the merits are collected. It may be that the merits are traded too close to the crystal, thus it is not registering properly. We will practice and thx.
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Monday, November 26th 2012, 5:34am

mm there's this wierd 'glitch' I guess encountered the other day

Screenshot below after I killed this knight 3 or 4 times and revived on the spot like soul bond over and over


never seen anything like it. Says not his fault but he did abuse it to keep attacking =/
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Monday, November 26th 2012, 5:50am

Quoted from "Bakken;578320"

mm there's this wierd 'glitch' I guess encountered the other day

Screenshot below after I killed this knight 3 or 4 times and revived on the spot like soul bond over and over
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never seen anything like it. Says not his fault but he did abuse it to keep attacking =/


You should add that experience to the topic; http://forum.us.runesofmagic.com/showthread.php?t=77462
3 times in a week is sorta weird..

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Thursday, November 29th 2012, 1:25pm

isn't it funny how you dont see one person for hours on end then all of a sudden there are thirty people standing outside a random instance you just left or 30 people suddenly appearaing after you pk someene.