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I agree - but it's not so much the content as the principle.

For example, If I were to share full patch notes with ambassadors ahead of time (as I have done in the past), do I now need to worry about those being posted to reddit before I've posted them myself at the appointed time?

I have always tried to communicate as much as I can, whenever possible. I have spent days of my life writing news updates for the community. Please check my handle if you don't think that's the case.

If I have not shared anything yet, it will be for very good reasons, including incomplete or unconfirmed information which, if shared, would confuse people more than provide tangible benefits.

The point here is that the very reason I joined this this reddit thread was to let everyone know that the patch is coming. I did not expect things I said in private to be shared here already. But now that's happened and I'm not sure what information can be provided to Ambassadors in advance without it immediately being spread far and wide, so the system falls apart.

Rarely have I seen a leak confirmed so blatantly. Shame really - this will impact what I am able to share with Ambassadors in future.

Passing down items for resources to another character is considered an exploit?

The exploit referred to here is not the passing of resources from one character to another to share resources around and help the lower level character get ahead.

The exploit in question allows anyone to unlock ALL MODS, including Worldslayer mods within an hour for all characters, including high-level characters.

We've created a hundred new mods for Worldslayer. By using the above mentioned exploit, high-level players were able to unlock all mods by taking advantage of low-level character resource costs, within a very short time.

It essentially broke the entire "search for mods" gameplay aspect.

That's an exploit, not intended gameplay.

In terms of the other exploits I mentioned, many of them have already been addressed, or we have chosen to not address them.

For example, the clock-reset exploit was clos...

Pasting what I wrote in the other thread.

I've cleared up confusion regarding the definition here.

We have never planned to actively punish people who use exploits. [...] They are things we missed rather than malicious changes to the game code.

We may choose to address exploits since they are unintended, but people who take advantage of them have NEVER been punished.

There are multiple examples of us acting in t...

I've cleared up confusion regarding the definition here.

No where did I equate Exploits to Third-party Tools.

I even specifically called out Third party tools separately to make that distinction clear.

There are of course a bunch of big no-no's including but not limited to:

Anyone caught using third-party programs (Cheats) will be expelled from the ambassador group (as has happened in the past).

I've cleared up confusion regarding the definition here.

We have never planned to actively punish people who use exploits. As you say, they are things we missed rather than malicious changes to the game code.

We may choose to address exploits since they are unintended, but people who take advantage of them have never been punished.

There are multiple examples of us acting in this matter over the game's lifecycle.

Addressing an ...

Returning to lobby is in the same list as using external cheat-tools?

Not at all. Nowhere did I equate those two. None of the exploits I mentioned require external tools. They can all be done within the game or on your PC/Console without third-party tools.

If you're confused about this part of the definition...

Anything that requires you to manually tune a setting external to the game is also an exploit.

That refers to this exploit:

Reset your PC clock to refresh Vendor's Special Offer Exploit

Resetting your PC Clock is as simple as changing the time on your PC. No third party tool required.

Anything that requires a third party tool, such as a trainer, is very obviously a cheat, not an exploit.

The force dx11 command should no longer be necessary to be done manually. The reason we managed to move from unsupported to playable was because we Steam backended that launch command to be the default for all players.

Have replied here regarding this matter. Redirecting to a single thread.

Have replied here regarding this matter. Redirecting to a single thread.

Hey folks - I understand the frustration here and appreciate the desire to see something done.

On the other hand, this sub is currently skating over witch-hunting territory, so I do want to point out that such topics need to be dealt with carefully and with consideration.

While I will take the time to look into this, I won't be putting anyone on public trial. ^{Especially considering that I count at least one outraged person (not an ambassador in this thread who is equally guilty of using "unorthodox" methods to get ahead in the game.})

I will be discussing the matter with Laserbolt as well as checking internal tools to understand what, if any, inappropriate conduct has gone on.

I handed the ambassador group back to our content creator manager team a while ago, so I don't normally deal with issues such as membership or applications myself, though I do offer input and recommendations where required. This will likely be one of those ...