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Posted - 2012.06.22 20:27:00 -
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Richard Desturned wrote:Inspiration wrote:[quote=Aryth]Remember the deal with moon goo being produced out of nothing (i forgot the details)? The players in corporations involved in that, all got banned! they did not ban everyone in the corps involved where did you pull that from?
No in fact I believe this "mechanic" was abused for YEARS before a few players got quietly banned. In the meantime trillions of ISK worth of Ferrogel paid for "Elite PVP".
That is how you do it. Do it on alt accounts, do it and cash out VERY QUIETLY and never look back. Then buy everyone in your alliance a Titan and C-Walk through the south. |
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Posted - 2012.06.22 20:39:00 -
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Jade Constantine wrote:
Posting in a thread where goons helped me make 8.7b isk last saturday for 4 hours play.
(they really ruined my sandbox)
Oh damn, now you in trouble. |
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Posted - 2012.06.22 20:54:00 -
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Aryth wrote:
They seized assets that existed before the patch.
The irony of all this is that in order for them to roll back this stuff they are going to need some pretty awesome auditor-accountancy types. Perhaps Sony can send some in for a week.
Reminds me of the saying "An ounce of dealing with a game mechanic problem when you are told about it is worth a pound of figuring it out after someone abuses it." |
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Posted - 2012.06.22 20:57:00 -
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Oisin Sandovar wrote:Aryth wrote:CCP has now gone and nuked a ton of assets on our accounts. Meaning, we are losing wealth we had previous to this. Wow. But the message is clear. If you want to abuse something, you do not report it. As someone who tried to work with CCP, my advice to anyone in the future is. Don't. I think the message is really, file a bug report and don't exploit the bug/design flaw.
Let me tell you what happens when you file a bug report: nothing. Some people abuse the system for a year, and then they deal with it after "too many" people find out about it.
If only a few people know about it and exploit it it is no problem. Once the general population is aware of it, then it becomes a problem and then the exploiters have to find the next bug. |
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Posted - 2012.06.22 21:10:00 -
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Seen this all before. An incorrect punishment handed out because the developers didn't get a fix in time. Marketing over-correcting due to bad press. Mass revolt with threatened revenue streams and further bad press problems brings in management. Some backpedalling and quiet negotiations.
It all could have been avoided by doing something appropriate when that voice under the troll-bridge asks you who is clomp clomp clomping over their sandbox. |
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Posted - 2012.06.23 05:05:00 -
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ModeratedToSilence wrote:
Any publicity is good publicity.
Yes, this is the smartest way to handle the situation. Just take the difference of "before" and "after" and roll around in new subscriptions because people read that you can make 175k USD by blowing yourself up in a video game. A big media event like this once a month would be a huge boon. |
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