Originally by: Gamer4liff

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Originally by: Etho Demerzel

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Originally by: Gamer4liff

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Grats on not understanding the T2 economy, the exploit increased profit margins for T2 producers, not decreased the margins. As terrible as it is we all profited from the exploit. Except for the people legitimately moon mining, of course.

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You are so naive. It decreased profits for all T2 producers, because the people who did it could produce T2 almost for free IN ADDITION to selling the components.

So they profitted from the T2 market AND from the T2 producers, especially ship inventors, who had to compete with prices and costs that made impossible for them to profit.

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How can your logic always fail to account for the obvious? If they could make infinite isk with the exploit why the hell would they even bother with full T2 production?

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Originally by: Verite Rendition

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Originally by: Farouq Rizer

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Edited by: Farouq Rizer on 12/12/2008 03:18:20
Can you imagine how many people payed real money for GTCs and sold them for ISK that came out of nothing?

CCP better track down every GTC transaction and charge 35$ for every GTC that was payed with exploited ISK to those who were caught.

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Just so we're clear, they weren't printing ISK, they were printing goods. Those goods could be sold for ISK, but they did not create any ISK in and of itself. Whatever amount of ISK in the universe is the same with or without the exploit, the only difference is that there's more <stuff> than there should have been.

What they did was deflate the value of ISK for all production goods, which is a good thing for you and I because we could buy more <stuff> with our ISK. It would be a bad thing if you were in the market for rare goods however (anything other than T1 meta 0 and T2) because there's a more finite supply of those goods and these exploiters could acquire an otherwise unfair share of the ISK in the universe - basically they could pay more for those items and drove up the price as a result.

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