Been an exploit for a while. Tasos and company are fully aware it exists and well, you can see the outcome.

Been used for mounts, ships, and warhulks.

Kind of hard to kill someone that isn't there, and this exploit is a fundamental game breaker with the way siege mechanics work. Individuals using this exploit fundamentally tip the scales to far and it becomes very hard to overcome the tactical advantage given by the exploit.

This exploit is the microcosm of what is fundamentally wrong with the DFO community, Adventurines ability to dynamically fix exploits and dupes in a type of timely fashion, or even communicate on the lowest of one sentence announcements acknowledging the existence of said issues.

This is the reason DFO will wither on the vine, not the PvP mechanics, and not even the ungodly grind.

Don't make me have'ta Troll ya Bro!