Yes. I see that you're on Morgan so I'll link you directly:
http://www.burningsea.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=144

In case you haven't seen the Words of Rev:

We removed MoVs from the PvE Conquest missions due to an unforeseen exploit that had to be addressed quickly. As usual, we do not discuss or explain exploits except to say that we've fixed them.

In v1.1, MoVs will be awarded from the Unrest Bundle turnin missions. We are discussing a number of options for MoVs and how we can award them safely without reopening the exploit.

The change we made last night had no effect on receiving MoVs from players. You receive MoVs from every player you defeat from whom you gain XP, and the number of MoVs you receive is based on the level of the player's ship.

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When someone had a question about how they work:

You should earn an MOV anytime you earn XP from defeating a player.

Earning XP is based on the difference in level between your ship and the ship of the defeated player. The maximum difference for which we award XP is 15 levels.

This means is your ship is 16 levels higher than the ship you defeated, you get no XP and no Mark of Victory.

So: if most of your fights have been against players in ships that were 16 levels lower than your ship, you get no Marks of Victory.
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After more folks had concerns...

Folks, we had to take immediate action to deal with an exploit. We are discussing how to give out Marks of Victory and will find a solution. This is not a permanent change to the game's design, just a temporary course correction while we find a better way.

Let's not. This would be a Very Bad Idea(TM) and will only make the process worse. Plus, you don't all want to be caught up in the spam features we're working on, right?

Never mind, I found the issue and fixed it.

The build currently live on Testbed is indeed using ports 5000-5100. The next build we release to Testbed will use the same ports as the live game, 7010-7100.

Do you mean you got a message box in the game telling you to open UDP ports 5000-5100?

Yep, we have a problem with the unrest decay rate being far higher than it should. See this thread for the announcement:

http://www.burningsea.com/forums/sho...8791#post78791

We tested their new drivers and they solved the problem!

Those drivers are now going through NVIDIA's QA and should be released within the week.

Folks, we had to take immediate action to deal with an exploit. We are discussing how to give out Marks of Victory and will find a solution. This is not a permanent change to the game's design, just a temporary course correction while we find a better way.

Sorry for the confusion. The Conquest missions that will still give Marks of Victory are the Unrest Bundle delivery missions, which are in v1.1 on Testbed right now.

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