I really wasn’t arguing about whether it’s a social norm in PVP at all, or suggesting that it should be made easier. I was replying to an argument that the ability to build like this should be removed.
As for whether it’s an exploit or not, I maintain the same position as always: the word “exploit” has a pretty clear definition in software, and I prefer to use that one. That definition requires the resulting behavior to be unintended. One way you can be sure it’s unintended is if it requires you to use a bug. The other is to have it confirmed by the devs. Everything else is a guessing game.
To be completely honest, I really don’t care at all if these building techniques are considered exploits or not. Even if Funcom came out and confirmed it’s an exploit, I would still be against their complete removal from the game, for the reasons I already explained in the post you quoted.
I am not asking for these techniques to be made easier – that’s the original poster’s position, not mine. I am simply opposing the arguments to remove it, regardless of whose arguments they are.
Anyone* who thinks these techniques should be removed from all the game modes needs to go look at the Temple of the Gods contest winners. I invite you to pay special attention to the winner in the PS4 category. That build would have been impossible without the techniques we’re talking about in this thread.
If someone abuses these techniques on a PVP server to degrade server performance, that should be reported and handled. This is just like reporting anyone who puts an enormous amount of light sources in a small space in order to deliberately cause client-side lag. These building system abuses do get reported and they do get banned. That should be enough.
* I am aware that you are not arguing for that, DaVice.