Thats a tough one. If it were anything bigger, I'd say without reservation, you have four choices:
- Keep it to yourself, make as much coin as you can without getting caught (aka don't raise any flags) and enjoy until they fix it.
- Sell it to a site that buys and sells coin. Ask for a substantial ammount upfront (at last a couple grand), and a percentage of revenue generated. Make damn sure you trust them, and don't tell them anything until you actualy get payment.
- Post it here, (get your free premium acct. lol), and enjoy the warm fuzzyness of being a god. Of course, this will mean it will get fixed much much sooner, and theres a good chance you'd get swept up in the ensuing bannings (despite thier claims, they don't ban dupers by default: they only ban when things get out of control. Frankly, as bad as they claim duping is for the game, its better than the bad PR they get when a dupe goes public. Thats when they're forced to 'crack down', to appease the masses.)
- Or simply report it directly to SOE, privately.
HOWEVER: were talking about copper here. IMHO the issue is how long it would take to do 1 'cycle'. Also, and this may sound trivial, but is there much moving around involved? If you can remain stationary, and can repeat it fairly quickly, then its as good as a plat dupe (100000000 copper is 100 plat...only alot heavier). Even if its only a small profit, there will be a macro made to use it, should you post it here. The choice is yours, just understand the ramifications: you keep all the profit, but also do all the work and take all the risk, vs. cashing out, but you risk getting ripped off, vs, fame and notoriety, but the dupe is fixed within days if not hours, and there will almost certainly be mass bannings, vs. doing 'the right thing' and feeling good about yourself, but not getting anything else out of the deal, and nobody will ever know how clever you are =]
If your thinking about option 2, IM me, having gone that route myself, I can put you in touch with the right people. FYI do NOT contact IGE/Yantis. I tried contacting them several times, indicating I was interested in being a supplier. No response. Finaly, I came out and told them in an e-mail 'look, I found a dupe- Im trying to sell either the dupe or coin to you, but this could be fixed any day, please let me know if your interested. I received a 'we don't deal with cheaters' response from them, and was suspended BY IP (the only way SOE could have connected my acct with the email) on the same day. At the time of the banning, there was NO evidence of having duped on any characters (it had been moved to other accounts, none of which were banned or ever talked to)...coincednece? I think not. In fact, IGE has come out and said that they would not knowingly buy duped plat, and would report it to SOE. I know that sounds unlikely, but after what I went through, I tend to belive them. Esp. since SOE never did actualy fully close my dupe, meaning they had no idea 'what' I was doing...just that I was doing somthing.
maybe they knew i was full of it
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