Please allow me to interject at this point:
14. RULES OF BEHAVIOR.You acknowledge that the proper functioning and success of an On-line Role-playing Game such as Ryzom and/or Ryzom Ring depends on a delicate balance which Gameforge France has to maintain. The User is therefore strictly forbidden: (a) to use any program or method to change the content or functionalities of the Game ; (b) to cause the server to be overloaded; (c) to use any procedure to make it easier to obtain any instruction faster than through the ordinary course of play ; (d) to modify the user interface or any other component in order to obtain objects, experience points, currency, characters' attributes, ranks, etc., other than as the result of proper normal use of the Game ; (e) to buy, sell or transfer Game characters or their attributes. Furthermore, the User must at all times observe the Code of Conduct, the Courtesy Policies and the Ryzom Naming Charter displayed on the Game's website at www.ryzom.com, whose contents are hereby declared an integral part of this Contract. We reserve the right to take any emergency measures on your account (including suspending or canceling it) which we think fit, if we believe that your use is contravening the above prohibitions.
This statement extracted from the EULA superseeds any and all statements ingame, This is accepted by every player when they log into the game and those players that either knowingly or unknowingly break this condition of the EULA can expect that if i or any member of my staff recieve irrefutable proof that they have indeed broken this condition they will be banned!
Simple as that, there will be no argument and most certainly there will be no reprieve.
Currently as you are all aware there is no developement team which makes gathering such information very difficult, I certainly am aware that this "feature" is being exploited by a small number of players and am mostly aware of those involved in this exploitation. But please also be aware that allthough they may consider they have gotten away with it to date indeed they have not.
It has been said at various times in this post that use of this bug is not in fact an exploit, Please allow me to clarify that point.
An exploit is defined as the use of a feature or bug to gain advantage over and above another player or use of a bug to gain advantage where there would not under normal circumstances exist such oppertunity.
Ladies and Gentlemen, It doesn't matter to me what fancy words you use to describe what you are doing one simple fact remains: "You are exploiting". or more simply put "you are cheating"
Upon reciept by myself of proof of this you will be permenantly banned, I do not care who you are or who you think you are if you are not a developer of Ryzom using a dev account to investigate reported bugs then you have no bussiness involving yourselves in the level of code dessemination that is necessary to allow this to work.
Have a great day and do please look after each other.