What the heck happened in Zos Shivros Channel?

Bront

Bront

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2008

Honored Order of Light

W/Me

Having just gotten to the challenge missions for each of the factions, I figured I'd try Zos Shivros Channel for fun. Didn't work well, but meh.

Then I see the reward is almost negligable. Check the records, and there are 3 scores over 10,000! (and almost nothing else close). How did that happen? Is there even a point in playing this mission till those 3 scores clear?

AceeBlueEagle

AceeBlueEagle

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

ASH -Ashes of Humanity

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bront
Having just gotten to the challenge missions for each of the factions, I figured I'd try Zos Shivros Channel for fun. Didn't work well, but meh.

Then I see the reward is almost negligable. Check the records, and there are 3 scores over 10,000! (and almost nothing else close). How did that happen? Is there even a point in playing this mission till those 3 scores clear? Quite simply put, people exploiting the glitches there that Anet never fixed since day one.

Bront

Bront

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2008

Honored Order of Light

W/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by AceeBlueEagle
Quite simply put, people exploiting the glitches there that Anet never fixed since day one. Which glitches would those be? (Not that I'd exploit them or anything)

Is the other Luxon one like that too?

RedStar

RedStar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2007

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The other luxon may be worst... While exploring I managed to have all of the priests follow me because of my mm. So I could have just gone AFK and the shrines would have been mine for a very long time because the monsters couldn't cap them anymore....

Racthoh

Racthoh

Did I hear 7 heroes?

Join Date: May 2005

Scars Meadows [SMS], Guild Leader (Not Recruiting)

The glitches were fixed, after you kill the 6th wave every other wave after just has 6 Siege Turtles. They go on forever depending on how high you want to get your score at:

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/2805/over9kcg5.jpg

We obviously could've gotten a lot higher but we just wanted to get 10k. Remember that the scores are clearly daily, monthly, and every four months depending on the category.

Bront

Bront

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2008

Honored Order of Light

W/Me

Yeah, the problem is that rewards are calculated on the quarterly results (which is 3 months, not 4). A guildie of mine and I got the #3 score there today, and only got 11 faction points out of it (and 5 XP and 2 good, woot!)

They probably should increase the number of Siege Turtles with every wave to prevent the infinite scoring. Eventually you'll get overwhelmed.

I mean, I'm all for getting high scores and such, but you have to let it be somewhat competitive and give an incentive for players who try.

angmar_nite

angmar_nite

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2007

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Ractoth didn't get that score from exploiting though. You could hypothetically do the same or better.