Indefinite Resources Wonder Exploit

[Harris]

I'd like to raise awareness about something I encountered in a 4v4 tonight. Apparently there's a certain exploit that is even more disgusting than Rus' relic dupe. Someone (who shall not be named here and was reported already) was able to cheat themselves indefinite resources and in post game chat they admitted to have won by cheats and to have been using an "indefinite resources exploit".

After watching a replay, I figured out what's going on. They've rushed Imperial as Chinese, amassed 3k of every resource and started flooding with "X is building a wonder" messages. I thought it was a form of audio trolling. But nope - every time they cancelled the build they received 3000 of every resource repeatedly - enough to last them several games. Frankly, as soon as I saw their base I figured out something was off.

Until this gets fixed, here's the list of things you should be on the lookout:
- you are repeatedly getting "the player is building a wonder" message on your screen;
- the player builds things they shouldn't be able to afford, like 20 keeps around their wonder or 30 siege workshops;
- the player continiously pumps out an army after army of expensive units non-stop, even after the previous one was completely wiped out.

[Sir Moisty Capybara]

That's why we should have constant hotfixes and not roadmaps with silly promises.

As for exploit - it should be fixed asap and this is pretty weird and prolly resource return mechanic is something to blame.

[Thunder]

It is already listed on AoE4's official website as fix awaiting update.

https://support.ageofempires.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408424670484-Known-Issues-Solutions

[Rinky]

Originally posted by Sir Rage A Lot:

That's why we should have constant hotfixes and not roadmaps with silly promises.

As for exploit - it should be fixed asap and this is pretty weird and prolly resource return mechanic is something to blame.

true. the exploit is not some kind of major architecture flaw or something. Should be hotfixed a couple of days after it was found.

[Sir Moisty Capybara]

Mastery progress is not tracked across saves
Mastery progress is not tracked across saves, meaning you cannot partially complete a Mastery, save, load and then unlock the Mastery.

That should be by design. but offtopic.