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Originally Posted by Statik
The popular reference seems to be the no boxes issue. Yes its retarded that a single character can carry 6 big boxes filled with rocks if they so choose. But it is a mechanic in the game, and I will use it to its fullest (FWIW carrying 6 24 slot bags in really no different-anyone ever heard of a squire?)
So the question is why is carrying boxes bad mojo, but taking information SOE made public and using that to your advantage considered okay? Is it because one thing involves plat and one does not?
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I'm not sure why everyone tries to compare a previous comment I made about bank boxes with the situation in this case. But I have no problem with answering that.
In Everquest, your total STR determined how much weight you could carry. When I quit EQ, a plate tank's gear weighed around 120 lbs total, and he had maybe 300 total STR.
So nobody in their right mind would carry a 100 lb bank box in EQ, it would be like carrying a safe on your back, because then your weight would quickly fill up with items you loot, and you'd become encumbered.
When I started this game, I always felt like they made a huge mistake confusing STR, for the purpose of how much auto attack and CA damage you do (and power pool for some classes) with the same STR number for how much weight you could carry. I mean, my defiler's max weight is around 1800 lbs. Can you imagine any type of creature, other than maybe an Elephant or something, carrying around that much weight?
And to be able to carry not one, but six max slot SAFES without being encumbered? How is that possible, even from a role play perspective. It's not. Seriously, does nobody except me see the problem with this?
In summary, I always felt that being able to carry bank boxes was only possible because of a broken (or ultra-poorly designed) mechanic relating to a designer's confusion between the mechanic of weight for damage purposes, and how much you can carry before becoming encumbered. They should have limited how much you can carry by STR alone, as they did in EQ, not on the multiplied value that they also use to calculate auto attack damage, CA damage, and power pool.
So how does that have ANYTHING to do with the subject of this post? It doesn't.
This post is about whether or not I exploited by seeking to maximize my profits based on information that SoE announced in advance. I had no more or less information than anyone else, in retrospect, I bet correctly.
I hope that completely answers this question, and in the future, when other people don't read that I've already typed this same answer out before, I'll just refer to this post by it's number.
EDIT: In the future, I'll just refer to this as "explanation 147". Thanks