Originally by: Kwint Sommer

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You clearly haven't thought this through too carefully.

Purchase most of what you need directly off the market, pay people to haul/mine everything else and create a few simple macros and at no more than an hour a day you could produce thousands of ships a week and destroy a few hundred a day yourself contracting the rest out at a modest profit. You would easily hit 500M a day and at a single hour per day that works out to a nice income. In fact, I doubt it would be all that hard to hit a billion+/hour with a large enough economy of scale.

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Originally by: Kwint Sommer

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Are you confused by the word "macros" or simply the implementation/legality of them?

If it's the first case then may I introduce you to google's very useful "define" function. Linkage
What do you know? The very first result is our definition.



What does that macro do? It automates the process of docking, assembling and boarding a ship, buying insurance, undocking and self destructing. Basically you just click through the process once, record your mouse inputs to a script, add in random variables to make each execution unique and then put in short delays and redundancy of clicking to account for any lag or other unanticipated client responses and suddenly you can destroy a couple hundreds ships per day without even being at your computer.
Each instance will be unique and the only thing you're manipulating is the mouse so it's the definition of undetectable. Furthermore, CCP allows certain levels of automation such as that offered by the macro functions on the G15 keyboard. This could arguably be included in that and even if it's not there's strong historical precedent for CCP accepting these sorts of things. See macro miners.

To the mods: I sincerely believe that this does not constitute discussion of an exploit given it's similarity to the officially sanctioned G15's functions. If it does cross the line, my apologies, and I will happily remove the statement.

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