As you know mining orichalcum is probably one of the best ways to make money in the game because you can make 12s a node and hit every node on your server within 30-40m depending on their locations and the mobs that spawn. So around the second day the game was released I had the idea to transfer to other servers and mine orichalcum nodes to help make money. Back then the TP wasn’t up though, and many people in my guild said a few common misconceptions about the practice. Stuff like “nodes wont respawn for you in other servers”, “you will be locked out of WvW for 24h”, “you won’t be able to transfer again for 24h”. Of course none of this is true.
So I waited a bit and then finally did it once as a ‘proof of concept’ and decided not to continue. I felt like it was a bit too easy, it could be considered an exploit. I was going to report it the next day (it was late and I was going to sleep), but when I woke up someone linked me to this thread:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/server-transfers/first#post77112
ReginaBuenaobra, North American Community Team Lead
“It’s not an exploit as stated, but given some of the changes that the designers made, changing servers to get to resource node is actually going to be way less efficient and much more time-consuming than just running to the next one or going to a new map to gather resources there. Any efficiencies you may find are random chance.”
I instantly felt relieved that what I did wasn’t considered an exploit. So I went about taking advantage of this and spent the next couple days organizing my mining operations. Twice a day I would hop servers and mine the nodes. Now I wake up today to find this thread:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Transfer-mining-exploiters-beginning-to-run-rampant/first#post123653
CC Eva, Community Coordinator
“BLUcorp, thanks for notifying this and thanks for your concerns. Since you have already reported this there is not much to do right now. And you are not being ignored: it just may take a bit of time till the issue is looked into but we are aware of this.”
Now I find I could be considered an exploiter? I sincerely hope if you guys are now considering this an exploit that you put in a 2h limiter to world transfers instead of banning us all. 2 hours between transfers works nicely because it allows people to transfer to other servers to play with their friends in dungeons since sometimes dungeons aren’t working cross realm or aren’t working in our realm for whatever reason. I know I was one of the many people hopping to other servers when dungeons weren’t working on our server for 2 days. It also stops any kind of profit one would make by server hopping a lot to mine nodes since it takes a few hours for them to respawn anyway.
I would obviously not be doing this if it was considered an exploit. And until further notice I won’t be doing it. Before you act, please consider your previous statement. I’m not here to complain about anything, I just want our name clear of any wrong doing.