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Originally posted by GM Jejune GM Jejune wrote:

I do think it's pretty self-evident that the game of Illyriad is not designed to be played by editing the uniform resource locator of a given web page. DD, you've been playing for 13 years -- I think you'd be hard-pressed to find any official documentation for the game that directs players to do that in any manner that runs counter to what the UI lets you do. And centainly not so that one player could gain a tactical advantage over another in combat, putting their resources or even cities at risk. 


You wouldn't find any in-game documentation that says the player can't do that you would have to come to the forums.  Assuming we get some new faction AI updates and similar updates the rule about URL modification would be buried in old forum posts.  
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Originally posted by King Sigerius King Sigerius wrote:

Altering the url has been brought up at least 3 times in my memory. Twice warring Sin and once during the gdt episode. Common knowledge imo. Seiging in towns much more, and always said it's allowed. 
Death Dealer, you can circumvent pop requirements? You should probs tell the devs so they don't dig too deep into you and your associates.
Age was banned on both accounts for telling rikoo to ban him. Me on both for making fun of Rikoo in gc. Nesse/Odd on both for  their exploit. Don't ban 1 ban all 4 and the 2* who "manipulated" them to do it.


Its been a while since I settled a town so I don't know if you can still do it but I would assume so.  I could describe how to do it within the UI like island did for the siege but I'm hesitant to share information which could be considered an exploit.   I guess that would be a GM question if they care that I give out that information?  
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I believe that is what petitions are for, DeathDealer.

Common practice is to cite the petition number, if you wish to highlight a specific petition to the devs.

The devs have been better at responding to petitions of late. I've reported minor technical issues and had them resolved in <2 weeks.


Edited by eowan the short - 14 Aug 2024 at 05:53
This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some person started it, not knowing what it was, and we'll continue posting on it forever just because...
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Please petition the exploit for circumventing population restrictions. We started investigating at the moment you published your first post -- so the wheels are already in motion. Since we have no idea what you're talking about, petitioning us and explaining how it is done will facilitate closing the exploit. Without having a roadmap for how it is done, we'll need to look into player actions to see how they did it.

SC was pretty clear that we appreciate players who pass along the knowledge of how these things are done, while strictly forbidding their use. I'm not asking anyone to incriminate/implicate themselves -- if  you know how it is done, please let us know.


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I put in the petition.  As it is all done in the UI and it requires a set of circumstances that have to be set up by the player similar to the siege from inside a city.  I would think that either both are legal or both aren't.    
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Even if it's done by the same way, it's not the only that maters the way it's been done something, a game breaking like been able to avoid the pop is not the same with the ability to wall siege. 
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