
Evil RedEye
Minmatar Visions of Evil
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Posted - 2006.12.26 01:32:00 -
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Originally by: Dawne Xi In the contract system there is a bug that is being exploited and offenders need to be reported for this. CCP needs to fix this bug to stop the exploitation.
On contracts for items that have a quantity of anything other than one (1), the quantity is clearly shown with a "X #####" after the item shown in the "Offered Items" section of the contract.
Any item that is a quantity of one (1), does not have it's quantity listed as "X 1" on the contract screen but does have it in the final confirmation window before the contract is accepted -- Only if you have not disabled this final warning message though.
For some reason, if you are creating a contract, the quantity is shown for both quantity of one and greater than one, in the final confirmation window
This is inconsistent and leads to confusion and needs to be fixed so all contracts display the same way. See images below for examples of this.
Image of Quantity greater than one -> http://www.equo.org/eve/images/qty_gtone.gif
Image of Quantity of one -> http://www.equo.org/eve/images/qty_one.gif
Image of Confirmation Screen when setting up a contract -> http://www.equo.org/eve/images/confirmation.gif
I have reported this in the Bug Reports and am wondering when CCP is going to put out the general warning to everyone exploiting this bug. See images above as examples (note the one that has no quantity listed but is advertised as a quantity of 30,000 and a price of 75,000,000 isk).
And for everyone that is going to say "No quantity means it's a quantity of one" and it's the way the devs wanted it and all that stuff, need to explain to me why they think the devs bothered to put a x1 in the confirmation window when creating a contract .... I'll offer one for you. It's so you can't rip yourself off by mistakenly putting up more than one item when you intended to put up only a single item. It's to make it clear what you are setting up a contract for. Shouldn't the buyers be afforded the same consideration, by putting the x1 into the contract screen and not in a window that can possibly be disbabled?
Someone please explain how this is an exploit?!
Its quite simple within contracts.... If it says Mineral x 10,000 then there would happen, believe it or not, to be more than one of said mineral. If it says Mineral then there is only one unit of that mineral. Admittedly I was very nearly caught out by this but its quite easy to notice the obvious lack of "x #####"
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