There is an open item duping glitch in RuneScape.

[MerchantInTheDark]

As some of you may already know, there is an open duping glitch in RuneScape, close to the scale of the Purple Partyhat dupe (although it does not affect rares).

 

I've reported this glitch to Jagex, as soon as I learned about it and it should be patched within hours. However, billions of GP will already have entered the game from the abusers who already know this glitch.

 

Is this going to affect the economy in the long-term? Even if the biggest abusers are permabanned (which they almost certainly will be), so much cash has already come into the game because of this that it may have long-term effects on the inflation level in the game.

 

Personally, I'm going to put alot of money into rares - these are the only safe investment if inflation really does take off because of this.

 

Thoughts?

 

Edit: Link removed, please don't advertise in your posts ~ Rainy_Day

[Bladewing]

Can you duplicate items? If so, rares aren't safe.

[JoeDaStudd]

If this is for real its a good job I picked up d claws just above med last night before I logged (used up all by 1m of my bank :( )

[Kalafai]

billions is nothing, we'll likely not here much.

[MerchantInTheDark]

As far as I know this glitch can only duplicate unlimited numbers of a certain high-value item, which people are exploiting to bring billions into the game. While there is a possibility other items may be affected by this particular glitch if done in different ways, I do not intend to look into it and I'm confident that Jagex will patch it before anyone finds anything that may lead to this.

[jonni]

sounds fishy

[JoeDaStudd]

Don't want to get into too much detail, but by any chance are the items which are currently being used for this being merchanted?

This sounds a bit like its a decoy. Scare everyone into ditching x item, while secretly buying them all out with a few people.

[MerchantInTheDark]

I will post the technical details of the glitch (how and why it works) once Jagex has patched it. Unfortunately, I know for a fact there are several hundred people who have duped up to half a billion coins in items up to this point. I just hope that Jagex bans most of these abusers to keep the duplicated wealth out of the economy.

 

EDIT: Joe, this is not a decoy, this is real. The item in question is a faitly common item, and has actually started dropping in price because of the immense supply created by bug abusers over the last two days.

[Sy_Accursed]

Wait so its on the scale of purple phat dupe, but only works with a certain high value item.

 

But it is a fairly cmmon item?

 

High value...fairly common

 

Contradiction.

[BloodAngel]

I am reluctant to believe this as with the exception of your website and here there is no mention of it anywhere and if this glitch really existed JagEx would take the servers offline until they fixed it. Though if this is real then surely any item could be duplicated so it wouldn't be limited to this one item that you will not name? Also there is no such thing as a "fairly common high value" item or else it wouldn't be high value now would it? :wink:

Sorry but it sounds more like merchanting tactics like Joe said.

[Mercifull]

If this is true (which i doubt) how are partyhats unaffected or a safe investment? Just because this alleged glitch can't duplicate ACTUAL rares instead people will use the gained wealth/coins to purchase them. Nothing is a safe investment when someone or a group has cheated to gain vast amounts of wealth.

[Sy_Accursed]

Also as proven last year when bugs like this DO slip through Jagex bans the major abusers permenantly. Bans slight abusers for long periods and warns people who stumble across it but didnt use it. And it some cases they reverse trades etc. Like with the hole penguin points thing.

[Krampell]

I thought it was only untradables that you were able to dupe.

[MerchantInTheDark]

@BloodAngel, I understand your concern but you only see it here because I am the only person who has knowledge of this glitch who isn't hiding in some dark corner abusing it. I am not asking you to do anything, buy anything, or sell anything. I am simply alerting you that this is happening, and you will see proof of this soon enough.

 

I believe Jagex will handle this in a similar way to the method they used to handle the Penguin incident:

 

They fall into three categories.

 

In the first category, 159 players have been permanently banned. These are players who have spotted a penguin at least 250 times and cashed in their points. Most had spotted significantly more than 250. Many had spotted several thousand penguins.

 

When you bear in mind that you can only spot 50 penguins at once. This means the players had to click on a penguin 50 times go to Larry for lots of rewards, then go back to the penguin and click 50 times go to Larry etc etc. Thats not something you can possibly do by accident.

 

All these people got enough penguin points to gain hundreds of thousands of xp points in hard to level skills. For several players it was millions of xp gained.

 

This is an extremely flagrant abuse of rule 4.

 

We are very aware that we have a lot of customers who play this game mostly to compete in the hiscore tables. Using bugs to gain this much xp is not fair for all the many honest players who compete for places in the hiscore table by putting in a lot of effort to get up their experience by playing legitimately.

 

In the second category there are a number of players who also knowingly abused the bug and deliberately gained extra rewards from it. The numbers of penguins caught and the number of times they cashed in their points at Larry is quite clearly more than an accident, but the advantaged gained was not obscene.

 

These players received temporary bans for breaking rule 4.

 

In the third category there are a number of accounts which we felt banning them was a little too harsh. They had all spotted several more penguins than normal. Contrary to what some people have claimed we didnt ban anyone who spotted very small numbers extra, but we feel we should have set the number even higher as on further review there are a number of users banned who we dont think were deliberately trying to break the rules.

 

Nearly all of the those accounts were unbanned on Friday night, which is only two or three hours after they were initially banned, so hopefully it didnt inconvenience to many people. We apologise to any of these people who did lose playtime as a result. We are giving some free membership credit to those users.

 

A number of people have suggested a roll back of XP. While we can certainly see the merits of this idea, its unfortunately not technically possible at this time.

 

I would remind all players that making use of bugs to gain an advantage in the game is against the rules and not fair on other players. For Jagexs part we should try as hard as we can not to let these issues arise in the first place, and we have learned from this, but when we have a game as in depth and as complicated as Runescape, even with many people testing changes, its unfortunately impossible to guarantee that the game will be completely bug free.

 

Thanks for everyone that has brought this bug to our attention and thanks to everyone who withstood the temptation to abuse this bug you are the kind of player that makes the RuneScape community so special :)

[Sy_Accursed]

It's so nice how you keep responding with the same repeated message slightly re-worded while avoiding any attempt at all to justify yourself against the issues people raise

 

eg If its true it'd be all over the web by now, not jsut 1 random person and his site.

How can it be fairly common and high-valued as they are contradictory

 

etc etc

[Sy_Accursed]

It's so nice how you keep responding with the same repeated message slightly re-worded while avoiding any attempt at all to justify yourself against the issues people raise

 

eg If its true it'd be all over the web by now, not jsut 1 random person and his site.

How can it be fairly common and high-valued as they are contradictory

 

etc etc

 

Also clearly no concept of ecnomics if you think an item dupe brings money into the game.

 

Even if you sell said item after duping it to get 2X its value all the gp you get comes directly from another player so already existed

[Mightybigboo31]

I just can't see this as true; more of a merchanting tactic. <_<

 

1. How could it work on just one certain item?

2. I love how you are putting this same topic on several different sites.

3. You mention that everyone should quickly buy up certain items so they don't loose their money (Quote from another site)

I recommend you get as much of your cash into RARES like partyhats, edibles, masks, etc - even necessities like high level armor, as inflation will make the prices of just about everything rise long-term.

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Just seems fishy to me. If it is not a fake, then my apologies for assuming. :grin:

[Rock Hard]

 

 

Also clearly no concept of ecnomics if you think an item dupe brings money into the game.

 

Even if you sell said item after duping it to get 2X its value all the gp you get comes directly from another player so already existed

 

Consider duping alchables.

 

As for doubters - I don't know the dupe, but after a quick look ive seen frantic discussion of a new 'glitch' on several cheating communities i browse...

 

OP seems legit, listen to him. :)

[Sy_Accursed]

 

 

Also clearly no concept of ecnomics if you think an item dupe brings money into the game.

 

Even if you sell said item after duping it to get 2X its value all the gp you get comes directly from another player so already existed

 

Consider duping alchables.

 

Yes but he has said this is 1 specific item and will not name it. We don't know if it is an alchable, mostly likely (being as merchants found this apparently) its a sellable rather than achable which means it doesnt create any new money at all.

[Rock Hard]

 

 

Also clearly no concept of ecnomics if you think an item dupe brings money into the game.

 

Even if you sell said item after duping it to get 2X its value all the gp you get comes directly from another player so already existed

 

Consider duping alchables.

 

Yes but he has said this is 1 specific item and will not name it. We don't know if it is an alchable, mostly likely (being as merchants found this apparently) its a sellable rather than achable which means it doesnt create any new money at all.

 

Perhaps, i don't know much about it yet. Im sure all will be revealed in the not to distant future...

[bbalking]

Colouring whips with BA perhaps?

[Phrost]

How would the items risee in value if the said dupers are bringing items into the game, not coins? The coin amount currently ingame doesn't change thus making the items that are being duped lower in value.

[Sephy_]

We can has a rollback? :twss:

 

The item is Dragon Bolts (e) ?

[Rock Hard]

 

The item is Dragon Bolts (e) ?

 

Thats what i'm thinking -

 

Req: 68mage+

Member's

atleast 2mill gp already on your account.

 

And it's alchable...

[Shadiochao]

Aw, dragon bolts? That's boring :(

 

There doesn't seem to be too much panic so this doesn't really interest me =/

There is a thread about it on RSOF with several people confirming it, but I'm not sure if I'm ready to believe it yet though