taultunleashed

Sent in via email submission as stated to do elsewhere and got the auto-reply telling me to post it here...

> Now, this is an interesting little tidbit that must be
> part of the "not working a intended" group of
> exploits, but it could have other uses.
>
> A character that is not marked patron actually does
> accumulate points for their guild's level. It does not
> say you have guild points tallying in the guild
> roster, but the exp bar(definately more noticable when
> the guild is lower level) moves as much as when the
> character is marked patron.
>
> Untested possible use: Preserving the guild experience
> gained when the character leaves the guild - this is
> untested of course, as all my characters are marked
> patron now, but depending on how the game removes
> points when a person leaves, such as looks at the
> number in the guild roster, leaving may be without
> penalty to the guild.
>
> We discovered this while just doing tradeskill quests
> from the commissioner, but I assume it also works on
> adventurer quests too.
>
> In the current article at eq2players:
>
> "Guild Experience
> While both patrons and followers can earn status
> points, only patrons earn guild experience through the
> completion of city tasks."
>
> Not sure if it will get me a membership, but it's a
> definate bug.

Hrm, this bug doesn't seem to have any real good use to me. Not to mension it being untested. (I can't test it as i'm not in a guild)
Sorry, it just doesn't cut it godfetish, i hope ya can join us soon with something more solid!

I dunno - it could have it's uses if it just adds the status to the guild total. Status contributed per writ is decreased as the number of patrons increases - so a guild with 2 patrons gets more status per writ than a guild with 50 patrons.
I'll test it out tonight - I have several characters that I can test it on.

Ok great, give us some feed back ASAP.

Hmmm - err, an unusual problem came up attempting to test this. My characters (aside from my main, who is a patron) are all just tradeskillers. To do any of the tradeskill writs, I have to have components from practically every class (except with the alchemist - but the alchemist is my main, making the check null and void...)

In other words, sorry - unless somebody else is able to test it and confirm that it works, no dice.

akanon wrote:I dunno - it could have it's uses if it just adds the status to the guild total. Status contributed per writ is decreased as the number of patrons increases - so a guild with 2 patrons gets more status per writ than a guild with 50 patrons.
I'll test it out tonight - I have several characters that I can test it on.

Not completely correct...
Guild exp formula for guilds with 1-12 patrons:
earned status divided by 12

Guild exp formula for guilds with 13+ patrons:
earned status divided by number of patrons