Perpetuum actually.

Yup, the only things you hear from the game are "look how much this guy ****** over these people!"

Because its Goons getting punished?
Damn, youre right

Because its Goons getting punished?
Damn, youre right

Thought you already did?

CCP have been surprisingly tight lipped about the whole situation, sending out CCP SREEGS "the cooler" to keep things calm while minimizing the amount of community anger and wildfire speculation going on.

Has CCP contacted any media outlets about this story? It would make great reading and might attract more players.

I certainly hope some of you re paste the choicest quotes to Kugutsumen before they are removed / redacted by the fair minded moderators of this just city.

136 pages of beating a dead horse.

why is it 136 pages long?
nobody has been banned, items have been seized to stop a market crash. move along.

The definition of exploiting is also redefined daily.

Or was it a titan every other day

"It would be fair and balanced if CCP would violate every guiding principle they have ever lived by in order to specifically screw over a group of people I don't like!"

Get a clue. And a life.

You really should be familiar with the difference between personal income and alliance income, but then again MV is the worst corp in TEST, so maybe not.

Thought Goons would rule? Now youre being screwed over?

Make up your mind

Burn New Eden.

Winter is comingGäó

This **** need to stop

I don't know if anyone else has said this, partly because the rate of growth of this thread exceeds my reading alacrity and because sifting through the tear stained posts drew on for ever, but:

It seems to me that if Aryth hadn't started it by bragging and possibly gloating about this whole horrendous affair, the entire shitstorm that is this thread could possibly have been avoided all together.

That; and the fact that CCP may or may not have seized the assets of the, for lack of a better word, perpetrators.

I may also just be tired and a bit stupid?

No, that sounds about right. It just goes to show: don't exploit and then post in the forums about how you're smarter than the devs and try to make them look like bitches.

It's not Rocket Science V, people. At best it's Mining I.

Ok I'm going to go watch The Footy. It's been a gas folks.

Have they ruled on it then?

The key question for me is would something similar to this be allowed to happen in "the real world".

The answer is a definate no. Market manipulation is definately not allowed. It so happens that the same applies in EvE.

Yeah, Sreeg was calling it an exploit, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say their isk is gone forever. Whether there will be other penalties invoked due to the quite amazing number of violations, when you get down to it, they racked up as events progressed is, however, not yet known.

Also; wardec changes recently

EVE isnt meant to be fair. As it was said. Why should CCP be?
HTFU

The key question for me is would something similar to this be allowed to happen in "the real world".

The answer is a definate no.

Get out.

i would say put their wallets to negative! That would be a nice punishment instead of ban!

I'm going to use that line when I petition CCP for reimbursement of my freighter that was autopiloting through nullsec! After all, "in the real world", you wouldn't be allowed to just fly up to it and shoot missiles at it, right?

Only if you give their space to someone else lol They still have all their tech moons. Whats infinite money to that

Yeah, Sreeg was calling it an exploit, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say their isk is gone forever. Whether there will be other penalties invoked due to the quite amazing number of violations, when you get down to it, they racked up as events progressed is, however, not yet known.

I don't really want to say just yet, but basically if you know you're using a system in a certain way in order to gain massive resources, whether you're taking advantage of a design flaw or not and whether we classify it as an exploit or not we're still well within our rights to fix the glitch. I'm not going to comment on what we do or don't do at this point because I don't prejudge the results of investigations.

You know we won't comment on individual items on this forum and we welcome you to do the same.

Some LP was seized from people who were abusing, and I do mean abusing, this mechanic in order to prevent a crash of the FW markets. It will stay that way until Monday at the earliest.

Nothing that's been printed by any news source is in any way accurate and any numbers that have been printed were made up by these "journalists".

We haven't punished anyone to date. We haven't even decided if we will but boy howdy are we well within our rights to do so and I'm just astounded that I even have to explain that.

Yeah, starting two days ago.

Has CCP contacted any media outlets about this story? It would make great reading and might attract more players.