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Atiim wrote:

Himiko Kuronaga wrote:

Atiim wrote:

Shouldn't they also remove the ISK generated from all of the exploits used, such as "district locking?"

What?

No, because it isn't an exploit. It's an obvious use of incredibly dumb game mechanics.

I told CCP exactly what would happen before they officially set it up this way. They even responded to my thread directly and said "it might be a problem, but we'll deal with it later."

Well, that was months ago. It's currently later. Can't punish the players for CCP neglecting what anyone could've seen was an obvious problem before it was even implemented. I certainly didn't ask for the game to be played this way, but as long as it IS played this way I intend to try and win it.

As for CCP saying "we'll deal it later," well that's truly facepalm worthy,.

However, CCP's lack of competence aside, district locking has still allowed unintended billions, if not trillions of ISK to flood into the market. When p2p trading is implemented, this will become a huge problem.

CCP broke a very important rule in terms of a virtual economy. You never, ever, allow people to have a theoretically infinite amount of money. When the majority of the people on these forums consider 50mil to be "chump change". there is a problem.


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Skihids Bullet Cluster Legacy Rising 2783	Posted - 2014.01.31 05:10:00 - [1] - Quote Glass Zeraki wrote: I understand what you mean, but that would be extremely difficult if not impossible to track and pinpoint the specific actions taken by so many Corporations. On the contrary, it's probably a couple SQL queries to the database. Select all attacks where a clone pack was used and nobody showed up to use it. Add up all the days a district was locked that way to determine the profit generated per district. Bam, done.
Skihids Bullet Cluster Legacy Rising 2783	Posted - 2014.01.31 05:15:00 - [2] - Quote Atiim wrote: Himiko Kuronaga wrote: Atiim wrote: Shouldn't they also remove the ISK generated from all of the exploits used, such as "district locking?" No, because it isn't an exploit. It's an obvious use of incredibly dumb game mechanics. I told CCP exactly what would happen before they officially set it up this way. They even responded to my thread directly and said "it might be a problem, but we'll deal with it later." Well, that was months ago. It's currently later. Can't punish the players for CCP neglecting what anyone could've seen was an obvious problem before it was even implemented. I certainly didn't ask for the game to be played this way, but as long as it IS played this way I intend to try and win it. As for CCP saying "we'll deal it later," well that's truly facepalm worthy,. However, CCP's lack of competence aside, district locking has still allowed unintended billions, if not trillions of ISK to flood into the market. When p2p trading is implemented, this will become a huge problem. CCP broke a very important rule in terms of a virtual economy. You never, ever, allow people to have a theoretically infinite amount of money. When the majority of the people on these forums consider 50mil to be "chump change". there is a problem. PC is a huge ISK faucet, nay, water main break. It's gushing a fountain of ISK into select players hands. CCP stares at it and leans on its collective shovels saying, "Eh, we'll get to it after lunch".
Skihids Bullet Cluster Legacy Rising 2787	Posted - 2014.01.31 14:28:00 - [3] - Quote CCP tracks everything. They are obsessed with data. I'm a database professional and I'm certain that they can identify and track every last ISK generated by this locking strategy if they stored a few bits of information such as attack method and the battle result. It's not a tedious bit of accounting. One query and you have a report of every corp's total ill gotten gain. Another and you have the total dispersals you can use to raid player wallets if the corp wallet comes up short. They have the means. The question is if they have the will, and that's what most concerns me. Do they care about their game enough to shut off the faucet and mop up the mess, or don't they? It's an indicator of how the rest of development will go. Can we expect a well balanced game, or will they just throw a bunch of crap together and call it a day?
Skihids Bullet Cluster Legacy Rising 2789	Posted - 2014.01.31 14:48:00 - [4] - Quote Fixing the problem and cleaning up the mess is not a punishment. CCP did it once before when they accidentally handed out extra ISK, so there is a precedent. It's not like that was any different than handing out money for district locking. It won't require drastic actions like zeroing out every wallet in the game. You needn't get alarmed. They can surgically remove the "bad ISK" from the game.