I am bringing up the issue because what has taken me many months of work promotion wise is being accomplished in a matter of weeks. This is ...not equitable
Bioware needs to make a decision about what course of action will be taken, quickly. Then they need to inform the community.
This bug was introduced with the most recent patch. It wasn't brought to the attention of the the community until the double XP weekend. Bioware has issued the following statements thus far.
1. The bug requires a patch to be removed.
2. Repercussions through bans are a possibility.
As a result of Bioware's stance the following has occurred:
1. Bug has become common knowledge and is being used by a large portion of the player-base.
We are aware challenge progress tracking can be difficult at times. Gold gained in "random" lobbies, dragon slayer, weekend events, new agent completions
We are aware that a substantial increase in the bugs use has occurred
We are aware that the player base of DAMP is already small
We are aware DAMP is a casual PVE/COOP game
The advantage that is available by playing in these bugged lobbies is absurd. Promoting in bugged lobbies at a rate of 3+ per hour versus non-bugged lobbies is certainly not equitable. As a community we need to know what is going to come of this, so we can conduct ourselves accordingly.