Tempest Abuse

Before I go to bed I generally watch some streams at night after I'm done playing. I notice someone still doing the tropical island corrupted tempest that was a couple hours earlier. I thought it happened again but upon review I noticed that he had opened like 15 topical island maps in the eternal laboratory and was refreshing them so he could run tropical island maps AFTER the tempest was over.

I'm not sure if GGG is aware of this but I think this shouldn't be allowed.

It's probably why people were thinking there was duping going on with high end gear.

Lol?

The tempest is determined when the zone is activated, doesn't matter when it ends, nor should it. They really don't have an easy way just to "stop" the tempest, nor should they care.

You have the map device in your hideout and the lab to use, anything else is only possible from help of other players and if they are willing to spend the time to do it, why shouldn't they be rewarded?


As for the "dupes" it probably has something to do with the fact that GGG messed with the loot drops and realized they likely made a mistake and "upped" the drop of some of the rarer items.

If you walk in and out of the map to refresh it, you'll loose portals. If you just go in the eternal lab, I'm not sure that will keep the zone instance alive...

Therefore, and this is speculative, but there is then some limit to your options on how to get many zones open and staying active.

Also, you are limited by the number of maps you have. You can't buy every Tropical island on the server without competition and seeing the prices soar.

So there is a limit, even if its higher than intended, and even if I'm wrong on some of those points.



Edit: If you really wanted to close this loophole, the best solution I see is to give people Zana's map device for free when they complete solaris Merc, and to close the eternal library for good. This would then make all mapping occur from the hideout, where only 1 instance can exist, and only 1 map can be up.

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]If you walk in and out of the map to refresh it, you'll loose portals. If you just go in the eternal lab, I'm not sure that will keep the zone instance alive...

Someone just going into or being in the lab will keep it alive.

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Edit: If you really wanted to close this loophole, the best solution I see is to give people Zana's map device for free when they complete solaris Merc, and to close the eternal library for good. This would then make all mapping occur from the hideout, where only 1 instance can exist, and only 1 map can be up.

Or they could not worry about it? Tempest aren't designed to end exactly on the hour or change. Imagine rolling a map, throwing it in at 5:45, after checking the tempest website, determine that the zone either has no tempest or one you are fine with. Only if it takes you longer then 15 min to complete that map it can lose the bonus, change to a deadly combination or whatever, that wasn't the intention of the league. Why would it take 15 min to do a map, idk maybe you left to trade, used the restroom whatever reason.



There is absolutely nothing wrong with this OP is just jelious that some streamers have people saving\keeping alive instances for a 68! map.

Umm, I'm not jealous. I don't agree with abuse of game mechanics.

This is a good candidate for the smallest problem in the history of the universe.

I personally think the amount of 6links should be slightly reduced in the corruption tempest. Some people end up getting 5 divine orbs from a corruption tempest map, the consequences of that are either reduced prices for divine orbs or perfectly rolled uniques everywhere. It won't break the economy but wouldn't be healthy for it either. But, considering that the game is more difficult now, maybe we do deserve to have that

15 labs up? Unless he can clear a tropical island in like 30 seconds, he is going to lose at least 10 of those labs. You are either exaggerating the "couple hours earlier", or he was rushing to the boss clearing only 10% of the map and going fast to refresh the labs. That would mean he got VERY little out of every map. The instance reset timer is there and it prevents abuse of this kind.

Corrupting tempest in general is another topic, and I'm afraid it will bring the price of divine orbs down, significantly.

You can do the same thing with any temporary zone-based mechanic, same thing with Warbands, if you see a 4-dot city of sarn you can go open up all the instances you want at the 9 minute mark and go farm all the craptacular alts/chaos you want

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clan_iraq wrote:

You can do the same thing with any temporary zone-based mechanic, same thing with Warbands, if you see a 4-dot city of sarn you can go open up all the instances you want at the 9 minute mark and go farm all the craptacular alts/chaos you want

Exactly, its clear use of mechanics\time constraints.