I would be extremely counterproductive for us to do that. The whole point is to profit as much as possible. You do not do that crushing markets long term. The markets only took impact for a short period because we needed liquidity. Think of it like a loop feeding off the market to get more capital. We would cycle ISK out of faction ships/implants/cores so that we could get to goal.

Think of it like this.

Would you invest 500b in liquid ISK to get 5T worth of assets? That is basically what was done.

Hmmm
With all the ISK that goonies have made could they say they quit as well and keep playing for then next 10 years.
Oh wait can you chain in multiple plex's and how many can you do ?
Hmm makes you wonder.

9000 members * 12 months * 10 Years = 1,080,000 Plex's

They should not be expensiv, if you really are filfthy rich. Or you could upgrade the Maelstroms in Machariels. I.e. Snuff box fly a Machariel fleet without owning Tech moons or LP shop heist.

That would be a very risky bet. I guess, that is why you have installed FWeddit, to stop the Minmatar FW ppl to reach tier 5 again and get FW items for prices, which are competitive to you and destroy the worth of your imaginary 5T ISK

It's not like the easy money has anything to do with why we are winning the territory war.

You know, we can say its a bug, but we don't really actually know if it was a bug or if ccp just went "You know, double rewarding players doesn't make any sense, does it."

How about you tell me how this didn't fail. I'm not saying that it wasn't a good idea, but what did happen, is that they broadcast-ed what they were doing, (while bragging their a**** off) and lost all the hard? earned ISK.

Now please tell me how this wasn't a fail.

They haven't lost anything yet, and from my understanding, the only reason it was announced was that some dumbass leaked an internal document talking about this. As for the punishment they will likely get... it will be a slap on the wrist. CCP has a habit of coddling Goons in any and all actions they take even when they are severe.

No. I purposely told CCP, frantically you could say. Where I screwed up is, well I am bad at twitter as I only have twitter to ask Diagoras for stats. I didn't realize it's public if I sent something to Punkturis. Whoops.

Let me try to say it more bluntly.

CCP has the logs and the data.

I very much doubt CCP want to send out the message that although this is a sandbox, market manipulation, because that was what this was, is only allowed to go as far as to make you a little bit of money, make a lot and you're 'exploiting' the system.

"I'll believe that when me **** turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet."

I don't think anyone thinks the exploit happened in the market; the exploit happened in getting LP's.

If it wasn't "wrong" or "a bug", then why would they even bother reporting it to CCP in the first place? If they really believed what they were doing was legit, they'd still be doing it and you can bet you wouldn't hear it from them.

What they did was grab up as much as they thought they could get away with. "Ohhh, CCP, it's no biggie, right? It's just 5tril worth of ISK. It's a drop in the bucket. You made a bad call, we exploited it, lets just call it a wash and go about our space business."

"I'll believe that when me **** turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet."

"Hey, we found this thing. We don't know iff you intended this or not, but it allows us to do X if we go nuts with it. Here is proof."

If that were true, I'd expect they'd say, "Oh, and here, you should probably take back these LP's we gained because in the hands of a villain, they may then try to dominate the market with it and that'd given them an unfair advantage", instead of "hell yeah, WE B SPACE RICH!! TO THE FORUMS TO GLOAT!!!"

why is it that the forum mods have been closing all sorts of threads lately for all sorts of lame ass reasons, but they haven't locked this one yet?

Nothing wrong trying to make a living helping CCP with game design. The goons did this one good me think. But maybe they tried to get away with to much. And why wouldn't you brag if you made 5 trillion ISK?

why is it that the forum mods have been closing all sorts of threads lately for all sorts of lame ass reasons, but they haven't locked this one yet?

. Others also have of course ship reimbursement programs. In other words, the wealth does not reach the average Goon. Where is that money?

Why should they give ISK to the average Goon?
Even the communist USSR brass had their nice villas while everybody else sucked the hard nuts.


Anyway here's the fairest punishment for those 5 guys:

2 years of obligatory work in CCP as coders and QA testers.


Either this will be a suitable Dante's alike retaliation and will make them experiment their own stuff.

And / or

EvE's game code quality will increase 3 fold.

Win on all the line.

Only morons dump what they're sitting on into the markets (and this is why the mineral market is crashing downward -- morons)

Mineral markets are crashing because of another 2 reasons, I let you guess which is.

congrats goons. good exploitation is good.