Dear Kronos,
Unfortunately we found out there is an issue with Silithid Carapace Fragment which allowed players in group to multiply the looted amount beyond the correct number of items.
An announcement was made right after we confirmed the issue in order to attempt to stop the abuse of this exploit. We have been receiving reports even after the warning that players continued to take chances and benefit from the exploit.
With no reports to date in the bug tracker, we had a feeling that no one from any guilds cared about the issue to be resolved.
This left us with two choices:
a) complete rollback for the chain quest progress and Brood of Nozdormu faction after Kronos has been patched
b) stop the abusive behavior of players until the fix has been applied
We decided for the second option, as we did not really want to reset the progress for everyone.
We have to underline that there is no real way to find out who has been abusing or not without a great deal of effort (who farmed in a legit way, who didn't).
We have taken action to temporary disabled the ability to obtain Silithid Carapace Fragment and quests The Hand of the Righteous/The Path of the Righteous.
All Silithid Carapace Fragment are going to be removed from the game from every player upon relog or similar action.
There is no way to avoid not losing these items as there will be a server update prior to enabling the items and the quests again, which will remove the currently held items.
We are investigating who has been guilty in this matter, and will be punishing these players. Once again, there no way to easily determine which players abused the exploit from those who didn't without a lot of work (which we will begin to put in)
We understand our players frustration, but we had no other choice and are extremely disappointed that a portion of the population have put us and you in this position.
Thank you all for your patience and cooperation. We try to bring back the War Effort atmosphere as soon as possible.
