Spiral Knights - Weapon trading glitch!

Weapon trading glitch!

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Wed, 05/30/2012 - 00:22

Heruncle

Hi,

I like to inform you of a glitch that me and a fellow knight (Sunleaf) discovered today. We were just doing a basic trade, so I was buying a Volcano Pepperbox w/high dmg vs Gremlins for 153968 (all I had at the time). So I entered 153986 into my trade, saw the Volcano Pepperbox icon on the other trade (looks like Autogun but dark blue and turqoise instead of gold and gray), so I hit confirm. But nothing happened after awhile and suddenly the weapon icon was gone, so I asked him what happened to it. It was still there on his side and he told me about the "synch glitch" when someone has a bad connection, so on his side he saw that I needed to confirm the trade even though I already did before. So I hit confirm again and the trade finally goes through, but...

The Volcano Pepperbox DISAPEARED! I asked him if he still had it and he didn't, it just got lost. He got really angry at you guys (OOO), said he had enough of the game because of bugs and would retire from the game, then he quit the game.

I lost ALL my money (I had to grind all of it in arena ranked missions), he lost a 5* weapon, and you guys lost yet another player. I really like the game and want to continue supporting it but I really wish you guys would fix lame bugs like these and give me back the Volcano Pepperbox w/high dmg. vs. Gremlins I bought. Thank you!

Wed, 05/30/2012 - 00:33

Newominus

If its just some guy you met

If its just some guy you met in the game then you probably fell for a really cheesy scam.

You enter in the money and he enters the gun.
He then removes his gun and tells you about the glitch (scam starts here)
You make the trade and you dont get the Gun but he gets all 153968 of your crowns AND keeps his gun (scam ends here)

Wed, 05/30/2012 - 00:32

Daarke

...

Sorry bro, but he fed you a cock and bull story. You got scammed hard and royally.

Wed, 05/30/2012 - 00:37

Kon-Vodka

[♥][♦][♣][♠] face

sounds more like a scam than a glitch, you or him can send a report note in that moment but he left
the description of the item was correct and only the icon looks different?

Wed, 05/30/2012 - 00:39

Sypsy

Wow

People can think of some pretty ridiculous scams.

Sorry to hear you had this happen to you.

You should report the player.

Wed, 05/30/2012 - 02:43

Gwenyvier

Not a glitch, you got snowed.

Not a glitch, you got snowed. The game is not no where near that glitchy, and big glitches like that OOO releases a notice to all players in the form of mail saying not to do something because it is broken.

Unbind on a 5* item is 4k CE (assuming 100 CE costs 7700cr that is 308k to even break even on the unbind) and that is not including what they would sell it for to actually turn a profit. The rule is that if something sounds too good to be true then it is. Getting a 5* weapon with a High UV for what is effectively 2k CE definitely falls under that.

I would report the guy, OOO might be generous and return your crowns, I have seen it happen before with a friend of mine. They might, they might not, can but hope. Either way you need to learn that things that are too good to be true are, and to be cautious with things that sound like it... be glad it was just effectively play money instead of real world money.

~Gwen

Wed, 05/30/2012 - 03:46

Riicecake

Change the title to Weapon Trading SCAM

Sorry for your loss but its most likely this was a scam. Sorry :/

Wed, 05/30/2012 - 08:01

Guardianknight

Aww that's too bad

As already posted, it's not a glitch.
Sorry to hear this happened to you and hopefully this guy will be banned.
Now that we know this "knight" scammed you, you may want to remove his name from your
post as it could be considered naming and shaming. If you haven't already, send a report.
Good luck. I hope it all turns out the way it should.

The one and only,
Guardianknight

Wed, 05/30/2012 - 09:57

Battlee

SPAMMED

bro i believed u just got tricked

Wed, 05/30/2012 - 10:02

Autofire

YOU'VE BEEN TROLLED!

really, use /report [name]

Wed, 05/30/2012 - 10:25

#10

Rovecmublana

/report them, the scammers

/report them, the scammers are the worst

Wed, 05/30/2012 - 16:28

#11

Tersakaff

LOL DID YOU SERIOUSLY FALL FOR THAT?
XD.

Wed, 05/30/2012 - 16:35

#12

Slayzz

Ignoring the douchebag post

Ignoring the douchebag post above me, I'm sorry to say you got scammed bigtime. Trust me, this game is too solidly made to have a glitch such as that. As everyone else who isn't an ass stated, just report him.

Wed, 05/30/2012 - 16:38

#13

Tersakaff

Sorry but this IS ridiculous lol. Ain't gonna go sweety-mommy on the OP, "awww, you let that bully punch you in the face darling?". I'd rather be the brutal older brother who'd just laugh at how ridiculous the situation is.

Wed, 05/30/2012 - 16:45

#14

Iron-Volvametal

...

"Ignoring the douchebag post above me..."

I see what you did there.

Wed, 05/30/2012 - 16:47

#15

Rommil

/report

Its your only option. This certainly isn't a glitch. There are too many players who do too much "business" (and by that i mean fair and honest transactions) and this has not happened to ANY OF US.

Wed, 05/30/2012 - 16:48

#16

Rommil

Bad tersakaff

you be nicer.

i don't care if you do have a cool guild name, XD play nice.

Clearly it was not an incredibly brilliant scam and not one that should be likely to fool someone. That being said, none of us are privy to the OP's mental state. Could be young, handicapped, etc...

Wed, 05/30/2012 - 20:24

#17

Dukeplatypus

Hah, I see what Iron saw you

Hah, I see what Iron saw you did there.

Wed, 05/30/2012 - 20:52

#18

Spectrumized

Yeah, you just got scammed

Yeah, you just got scammed hard. I guess you could try a ticket, but no guarantees.

People seem to be scamming a lot as of late, or am I just noticing it now?

Wed, 05/30/2012 - 22:35

#19

Psychodestroyer

Actually...

For a trusting person with no prior knowledge about glitches or anything, this would be a pretty simple scam to fall for.

I don't see why you guys are cracking up so much over it. If not for the fact that the trick was so old and overused, 'Gullible' COULD be written on the ceiling.

Wed, 05/30/2012 - 23:12

#20

Lukehandkooler

ya scammed...

WTT Hellfire torchy, make offer plz ; P

~Luke

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 06:19

#21

Tersakaff

but i dun wanna be nice to noobs. :< my guild name is sick not douchebag, irrelevant to my low tolerance towards them

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 09:11

#22

Asukalan

Noobs are noobs, there is no

Noobs are noobs, there is no reason to be nice towards them. Burn them with fire.

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 10:06

#23

Raisinfist

Did he really do that?

@Asukalan
With a "Volcano Pepperbox", maybe?

Wow. That's one I haven't even heard of before, and I personally cannot believe that anyone would actually believe the 'sync glitch' story.
Just report them. It might actually work.

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 16:34

#24

Psychodestroyer

"I personally cannot believe that anyone would actually believe the 'sync glitch' story."

Like I said, trusting person with no prior knowledge of glitches and what they can do. If someone told me they used to be able to use statues to glitch through gates, I probably wouldn't believe them if I didn't already see it.

Likewise we wouldn't know if that random was just trying to waste our vials by throwing them at him while he ran at the Tier barrier, if you didn't already know what it was for. This guy was just a little more trusting than we were.

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 16:37

#25

Shoebox

Do your job GMs. Make these forums readable again.

This thread is really just a list of people that need to be banned.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 00:00

#26

Asukalan

And you just posted here :)

And you just posted here :) Welcome in the death row.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 00:02

#27

Shoebox

No but seriously none of you have ever done anything.

I did my time.

Tue, 06/05/2012 - 15:41

#28

Marquito

Heruncle is not the only one

Heruncle is not the only one to be tricked like that. My sister had the same thing happen to her with me standing right by the computer and we swallowed the bait.

She hadn’t been playing very long (I believe she was 2* at the time) and I had been playing for awhile longer. We knew there could be glitches in the game and we knew we should be careful of scams, but we didn’t think much about that at the time.
While standing near the Auction House one bright and sunny day in Haven, she was approached by a knight, who shall be nameless, who asked her if she wanted a Grey Owlite Shield recipe for only 2000 cr. Knowing that the recipe goes for 25k cr. at Basil we thought “Wow, what a steal” and figured he must just be trying to get rid of an extra recipe. She agreed to the trade and put up the money for the recipe. Long story shortened he was like “trading glitch blah, blah…” and she got scammed out of 2000cr after hitting confirm. Within seconds we realized she had gotten snowed. She then tried to get him to trade back her crowns, but to no avail as he was running around Haven. The beloved crowns were gone (I might have reimbursed her, but I don’t remember). At the time this occurred we didn’t know about /report we only knew about clicking on the knight and complaining.

However, You don’t have to come and confess, We lookin’ fo’ YOU! We gonn’ find YOU! We gonn’ find YOU!

That being said greed and stupidity definitely got the best of us that day. Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson is through experience.

Special thanks to my sister A*******(whose name she did not want me to fully reveal) for contributing to this post about our, mostly her, stupidity.

Tue, 06/05/2012 - 17:00

#29

Skold-The-Drac

And this is why...

Supply depot and missions systems have a lot of the stuff we wanna trade. /Raises hands
Go ahead... Make me part of your list.

Tue, 06/05/2012 - 17:32

#30

Alynn

Moo~~

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
This post made my day.............oh god cant stop laughing..........

Tue, 06/05/2012 - 17:39

#31

Rommil

what is it you'd have us do?

make threads pretending to be little bi-sexual girls? That seems to be about the extent of your contribution over the last 6-10months

Tue, 06/05/2012 - 21:54

#32

Shoebox

Also lol personal attack enjoy your ban.

That seems to be about the extent of your contribution over the last 6-10months

That really just goes to show how little attention you actually pay to the forums, doesn't it?

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