Originally by: Seishi Maru

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My opinion. CCP must do much MORE than cancel out the effects of such action. Punishment should be EXTENDED and very serious. Must be a lesson to make pople think twice before doing anything like that.

I would say ALL capitals, supercapitals and POS from corps involved or corps that recieved isk from corps involved should be eliminated. Yes completely CRIPPLE and remove 0.0 foothold of any alliance that was involved in ANY degree. Does snot matter a few only were involved and some of the pilots of such ships did not knew where the isk came from. The punishment should make more harm to the involved than they have done to the game.

And mostly important MAIN director characters of the true corps that received that type of isk must be banned. Would dare to say, if a few heads in scheme are detected, to be prosecuted legally in RL.

CCP has now ONE chance to make us proud and show themselves as a company worthy of our faith. They must BAN all characters of anyone involved directly and seize assets of all corps that received isk from that. And i mean ALL assets. Your corp created 1B isk only with the exploit? Too bad. you loose ALL your POSs and capitals now... think more before trying stupid things in future.

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Originally by: Klandi

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On December 7th 2008, a date which will live in infamy, a petition from a concerned player alerted us to a serious problem with Starbase reactors

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... WOT?

Wasn't this bought to the attention of CCP FOUR YEARSago? (albeit incorrectly)

Why the outrage and emoting in a game that is a sandbox (anything is permissible)and that the devs can 'balance' at the whim of their opinion.

Is this any more/less important than a pirate char creating a market by blowing up craft then directing the victim to buy his ships? That is perfectly legit - why not this?

It is the basis of human nature to look for ways to exploit their environment - that's the driving force behind inventors and entrepreneurs.

This is also a case of CCP double standards ..... Merry Xmas

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Originally by: Ansala

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All these exploiting accounts were non-paying anyway, so banning them costs CCP nothing. In fact if someone wanted to go all tin-foil hattery, CCP is only doing this now as a revenue decision; they decided they could increase subscription income by removing this means for people to play without paying.

The entire alchemy process could be viewed as an indication they knew they were going to close this exploit and had to provide an alternative supply.

The OP says CCP received a petition and acted on it; it doesn't say this was the first, or that CCP wasn't already aware of the issue.

It is hard to believe CCP wasn't aware of this well before the petition they finally acted on.

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