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Edited by JamesButlin:
9/19/2014 9:56:52 AM
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I'd like to hear Bungie's opinion on Farming/Exploits?
As I can see that a lot of people are getting in to farming as opposed to grinding for loot, exploiting the repetitive spawning patterns of certain enemy types to gain glimmer and loot, I would like to see Bungie's opinion on this? As the loot system is new to a Bungie game, I'd like to know how lenient they are towards it or if they have plans to either ban people or simply patch away the exploits (hopefully the latter!).
Obviously I prefer to actually play the game as intended rather than performing the same tasks over and over and over but hey that's just me.
EDIT: For those of you that think I have a problem with people going around the map and grabbing spinmetal or other resources, that's not what I meant by exploits - more like [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eou-dU-kJqs]this[/url].
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As a long time farmer in several games I can say that farming is grinding for loot. The way the game is set up is that drops from any mob, be they level 1 or level 20+ is the same. And guess what, I'm also doing stirke and public event missions and patrols and the campaign. It's in my nature to game the game, and if a game gives me the opportunity to fight lower level mobs to get the same stuff I can from fighting +5s? Then I'm going to take the lower level mobs every time. Bungie is often quoted as saying "We make games we want to play!" That means, when they set up the spawning system, they knew how it could be exploited, and they didn't care. As I've said before, if Bungie patches this current farming system, an hour after the patch, someone will post a Youtube video with an alternative farm.
