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Ethilia
Freelance Excavation and Resistance United Outworlders
24
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Posted - 2012.06.29 18:17:00 -
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Aryth wrote:Ethilia wrote: Usually, hostile take overs by banks are done with $$$ and lawyers and not guns. Are you suggesting there will be a significant financial assault on Delve residents? If so I'd love to see a detailed post on how it was done and what impact it had.
I run the ship supply program for GSF. I often use my personal ISK to backstop the program and to perform hostile market activities. Pretty standard stuff in bloc level warfare I would think. At least from our point of view. Just isn't talked about cause it's only a handful of players doing it. (with a lot of assets)
Maybe this is common knowledge, but it seems a lot of bloc warfare is funded by a small # of very rich players. Can you give a guesstimate on bloc funding breakdown by 1. isk from alliance activities (Technetium mining, taxes, etc.) 2. Player activities (ratting, mining, etc.) and 3. Rich player activities (CEO/Director 'salary/bonuses', stupid scale investments - 250b+, etc.). I'd be very interested in even a hand wavey guesstimate on what % of bloc activity costs (sov, super caps, ship replacement, whatever) are funded by each.
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Querns
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
63
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Posted - 2012.06.29 18:26:00 -
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Ethilia wrote:Aryth wrote:Ethilia wrote: Usually, hostile take overs by banks are done with $$$ and lawyers and not guns. Are you suggesting there will be a significant financial assault on Delve residents? If so I'd love to see a detailed post on how it was done and what impact it had.
I run the ship supply program for GSF. I often use my personal ISK to backstop the program and to perform hostile market activities. Pretty standard stuff in bloc level warfare I would think. At least from our point of view. Just isn't talked about cause it's only a handful of players doing it. (with a lot of assets) Maybe this is common knowledge, but it seems a lot of bloc warfare is funded by a small # of very rich players. Can you give a guesstimate on bloc funding breakdown by 1. isk from alliance activities (Technetium mining, taxes, etc.) 2. Player activities (ratting, mining, etc.) and 3. Rich player activities (CEO/Director 'salary/bonuses', stupid scale investments - 250b+, etc.). I'd be very interested in even a hand wavey guesstimate on what % of bloc activity costs (sov, super caps, ship replacement, whatever) are funded by each. a technetium moon is 12.6b a month in profit
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Aryth
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
493
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Posted - 2012.06.29 18:29:00 -
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Ethilia wrote:Aryth wrote:Ethilia wrote: Usually, hostile take overs by banks are done with $$$ and lawyers and not guns. Are you suggesting there will be a significant financial assault on Delve residents? If so I'd love to see a detailed post on how it was done and what impact it had.
I run the ship supply program for GSF. I often use my personal ISK to backstop the program and to perform hostile market activities. Pretty standard stuff in bloc level warfare I would think. At least from our point of view. Just isn't talked about cause it's only a handful of players doing it. (with a lot of assets) Maybe this is common knowledge, but it seems a lot of bloc warfare is funded by a small # of very rich players. Can you give a guesstimate on bloc funding breakdown by 1. isk from alliance activities (Technetium mining, taxes, etc.) 2. Player activities (ratting, mining, etc.) and 3. Rich player activities (CEO/Director 'salary/bonuses', stupid scale investments - 250b+, etc.). I'd be very interested in even a hand wavey guesstimate on what % of bloc activity costs (sov, super caps, ship replacement, whatever) are funded by each.
It's more complicated than that. It also varies from alliance to alliance. But in GENERAL.
Ship replacement programs are funded through alliance income. Tech/Ratting/POCO Taxes. Our finances are public, so you can see the exact amounts if you want.
SOV Structures/Fuel/POS's are also funded through alliance income.
Where it gets cloudy is the ancillary costs to war. Total war in EVE requires a great deal more than just #'s.
Example: Stocking the market in the front line stager. This is pretty much always done purely through private ISK. While some standardized fits may be stocked on contracts (we do this) and some is also private ISK, there are a great many more modules and hulls stocked on the market in addition to this. This is where private ISK comes in.
The other side of this coin is hostile manipulation. This also is purely private ISK, generally this means attacking the hostile staging market. Relisting critical modules for hilarious markup etc. This can also (and does in my case) extend to Jita. I may actively move major Jita markets as a part of war activity. Supply shortages are often artificial and caused by vast sums of private ISK.
Private ISK also is typically leveraged for super capital production. Supercap yards are hilariously expensive and this requires hundreds of billions of private capital.
So think of it sorta like a tight ball of alliance ISK, surrounded by a huge cloud of private wealth when alliances go to war. Everyone plays this on a slightly different level. I would say we do it better than anyone. |
corestwo
Goonfleet Investment Banking
542
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Posted - 2012.06.29 18:33:00 -
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Stocking our war markets is largely done by private players, for a profit. Aryth will tend to backstop war critical items with either his own personal money or alliance money, though, so as to prevent excessive price gouging. We're fine with goons war profiteering, it's when they get piggish on vital equipment that things get ugly (for them).
And then as aryth noted, there are things like capital and supercapital construction as well, which is also privately run. The biggest reason for this, really, is that its a truckload of work and no one would want to do it for free. I fought the law, and the law won. At least the law is merciful... |
Querns
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
63
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Posted - 2012.06.29 19:17:00 -
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Yeah, VFK (the GOON CAPITAL) is the 6th largest market hub in the game, and the top nullsec market hub
That has a lot to do with how we are able to do the things we do |
Hoarr
RPS holdings
28
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Posted - 2012.06.29 19:30:00 -
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Chicken W1ng wrote:Rather one of the 105% of buttlickers that are around (given that some probably post with multiple accounts).
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Butt lickers. SERIOUSLY? Kindergarten Comebacks FTW!
On a different note, congrats to Aryth and crew. This has been a hugely entertaining saga, and suff like this is one of the reasons why we all play EvE. This will only get more entertaining when CCP gives Jade Constantine 10 plex for reporting Aryth's twitter leak. |
Aryth
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
495
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Posted - 2012.06.29 19:48:00 -
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Hoarr wrote:Chicken W1ng wrote:Rather one of the 105% of buttlickers that are around (given that some probably post with multiple accounts). HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Butt lickers. SERIOUSLY? Kindergarten Comebacks FTW! On a different note, congrats to Aryth and crew. This has been a hugely entertaining saga, and suff like this is one of the reasons why we all play EvE. This will only get more entertaining when CCP gives Jade Constantine 10 plex for reporting Aryth's twitter leak.
We made Jade 8b. He got paid already. |
corestwo
Goonfleet Investment Banking
542
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Posted - 2012.06.29 19:53:00 -
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That's three times that Jade's name has been invoked now, shouldn't he be here by now? I fought the law, and the law won. At least the law is merciful... |
Alain Kinsella
120
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Posted - 2012.06.29 20:01:00 -
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corestwo wrote:Pipa Porto wrote:CCP Sreegs wrote: That graph was generated as part of the investigation.
Wait, you don't have a matrix style wall of TVs showing Graphs of every possible bit of Economic activity in EvE? Well, why not? I can't speak for CCP, but that is what, but that's what the interior of the Goonwaffe Economic Cabal looks like.
I'd like to mention that its far easier these days to have monitoring tools collect and graph data points on a regular basis (such as Nagios/Icinga + PnP4Nagios - loving these two right now).
At Fanfest, it was mentioned that CCP is using the daily DB snapshot for its metrics, which will work, but is obviously time delayed. Do you have any plans to consider more active snapshots (say 4-6/day) or preparing queries that you can turn on for one day (similar to a network sniffer) to drill down better?
[Monitoring is one of my core responsibilities at work, so I admit all the new graphs I have access to through Icinga has made me like a kid in a candy store. ]
I may have come here from Myst Online, but that does not make me any less bloodthirsty than the average Eve player.
Just more subtle.
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Kayrl Bheskagor
Hedion University Amarr Empire
14
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Posted - 2012.06.29 20:07:00 -
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Vokanic wrote:Kayrl Bheskagor wrote:So, to get this straight, they exploited a huge hole created by CCP, they did this for 2 weeks, them and lots of their little buddies profited from this, not to mention the trickle down effect that affected positively and negatively many other players and the whole market in general, and instead of a ban, which is what the EULA says (CCP really needs to read it sometime), you're actually going to "award" Them multiple PLEX for exploiting the game? Wow. So with this pro-goon policy from CCP, above any of the rest of the player base, how many others at CCP are ex-goons, or goon sympathizes like Stoffer (aka Soundwave)? Not hard to understand the pro-goon war dec changes And the pro-goon exploit award of free PLEX. CCP seems determined to make 2012 more of an epic fail than last year, and the players numbers still haven't rebounded from last year. Well done. Another lost opportunity to show the player base that you know what you're doing, but all it really did was make CCP, what, 0 for 5 on major issues so far this year? since when did 5 people = lots? in the words of goons.. you mad bro? (in case you cant tell, I'm mocking you for being .. shall we say.. not the 1%?)
So, you're a little goon puppet too, or you actually think that ONLY 5 people were involved with it and benefited from the exploit, not to mention everyone else that took advantage of the exploit over the TWO WEEKS? In the words of people that can think on their own (aka NOT the goons) . . . you THINK, bro??
and no, I'm not mad that I am not a cheat. I'm an adult. |
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Zendi Marr
Imperial Star Guards Amarr 7th Fleet
0
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Posted - 2012.06.29 20:33:00 -
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I read they made, in game time, equivalent to 170.000 USD. That is quite an exploit. |
Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putain
Remanaquie Federation
15
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Posted - 2012.06.29 22:12:00 -
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Seems to me CCP is just trying to brush this one under the carpet instead of accepting the fact they messed up big time and they're the only ones at fault. This is no different from the older insurance payouts which so many people abused of until it got changed. But classifying it as an exploit only shows a complete detachment either from reality or the English language. By their own admission:
CCP Sreegs wrote:This can be compared to foreign exchange manipulation.
Now we have all heard of this before, sure. And it's called this for a reason. Ever heard anyone calling it foreign exhange exploit? |
Ethilia
Freelance Excavation and Resistance United Outworlders
24
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Posted - 2012.06.29 22:49:00 -
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Aryth wrote:Ethilia wrote: Maybe this is common knowledge, but it seems a lot of bloc warfare is funded by a small # of very rich players. Can you give a guesstimate on bloc funding breakdown by 1. isk from alliance activities (Technetium mining, taxes, etc.) 2. Player activities (ratting, mining, etc.) and 3. Rich player activities (CEO/Director 'salary/bonuses', stupid scale investments - 250b+, etc.). I'd be very interested in even a hand wavey guesstimate on what % of bloc activity costs (sov, super caps, ship replacement, whatever) are funded by each.
It's more complicated than that. It also varies from alliance to alliance. But in GENERAL. Ship replacement programs are funded through alliance income. Tech/Ratting/POCO Taxes. Our finances are public, so you can see the exact amounts if you want. SOV Structures/Fuel/POS's are also funded through alliance income. Where it gets cloudy is the ancillary costs to war. Total war in EVE requires a great deal more than just #'s. Example: Stocking the market in the front line stager. This is pretty much always done purely through private ISK. While some standardized fits may be stocked on contracts (we do this) and some is also private ISK, there are a great many more modules and hulls stocked on the market in addition to this. This is where private ISK comes in. The other side of this coin is hostile manipulation. This also is purely private ISK, generally this means attacking the hostile staging market. Relisting critical modules for hilarious markup etc. This can also (and does in my case) extend to Jita. I may actively move major Jita markets as a part of war activity. Supply shortages are often artificial and caused by vast sums of private ISK. Private ISK also is typically leveraged for super capital production. Supercap yards are hilariously expensive and this requires hundreds of billions of private capital. So think of it sorta like a tight ball of alliance ISK, surrounded by a huge cloud of private wealth when alliances go to war. Everyone plays this on a slightly different level. I would say we do it better than anyone.
So in summary Eve's economy really is at the mercy of a plutocracy ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy ). Goons tight ball of alliance isk is stupidly huge I'm sure and if private Goonie wealth dwarfs that.... At least Goons spend on their members. Somehow, I doubt it's like that in many of Eve's more powerful alliances.
Do you have a link to Goon finances? My googlefu must be off today.
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corestwo
Goonfleet Investment Banking
543
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Posted - 2012.06.29 23:13:00 -
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Ethilia wrote:So in summary Eve's economy really is at the mercy of a plutocracy ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy ). Goons tight ball of alliance isk is stupidly huge I'm sure and if private Goonie wealth dwarfs that.... At least Goons spend on their members. Somehow, I doubt it's like that in many of Eve's more powerful alliances. Well its not like burn jita, hulkageddon, OTEC and the ice interdiction from last year are all interconnected somehow. What kind of crazy conspiracist would believe THAT?
Ethilia wrote:Do you have a link to Goon finances? My googlefu must be off today.
Your googlefu is just fine, but needless to say we don't typically make that sort of thing public. I fought the law, and the law won. At least the law is merciful... |
VaL Iscariot
The Concilium Enterprises Spectrum Alliance
45
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Posted - 2012.06.29 23:48:00 -
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should of just banned them. |
Youli Kepain
Scapegoats
0
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Posted - 2012.06.29 23:49:00 -
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Lets see how badly I will get flamed for this...
After all this is now done(more or less), there is only one thing left to say to the 5 Gentlemen responsible: Well played, Sirs, well played. |
Ethilia
Freelance Excavation and Resistance United Outworlders
24
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Posted - 2012.06.29 23:57:00 -
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corestwo wrote:Ethilia wrote:So in summary Eve's economy really is at the mercy of a plutocracy ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy ). Goons tight ball of alliance isk is stupidly huge I'm sure and if private Goonie wealth dwarfs that.... At least Goons spend on their members. Somehow, I doubt it's like that in many of Eve's more powerful alliances. Well its not like burn jita, hulkageddon, OTEC and the ice interdiction from last year are all interconnected somehow. What kind of crazy conspiracist would believe THAT?
Don't get me wrong, I don't think Goon rule Eve ... yet. The economic strings of power are controlled by the << '1%' though it seems.
corestwo wrote:Ethilia wrote:Do you have a link to Goon finances? My googlefu must be off today.
Your googlefu is just fine, but needless to say we don't typically make that sort of thing public.
Then my reading comprehension must be bust:
Aryth wrote:Ship replacement programs are funded through alliance income. Tech/Ratting/POCO Taxes. Our finances are public, so you can see the exact amounts if you want.
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corestwo
Goonfleet Investment Banking
543
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Posted - 2012.06.30 00:23:00 -
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Youli Kepain wrote:Lets see how badly I will get flamed for this...
After all this is now done(more or less), there is only one thing left to say to the 5 Gentlemen responsible: Well played, Sirs, well played. It was a common sentiment in our reveal thread, so you won't necessarily get as flamed as you think... :)
Ethilia wrote:Then my reading comprehension must be bust: Aryth wrote:Ship replacement programs are funded through alliance income. Tech/Ratting/POCO Taxes. Our finances are public, so you can see the exact amounts if you want.
News to me. I know we have an internal auditor but I can't seem to figure out where the public bit comes from. I fought the law, and the law won. At least the law is merciful... |
Aryth
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
496
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Posted - 2012.06.30 00:29:00 -
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We provide this to all our members/allies etc. It's public. So you can see, at the large alliance level, it's a different game. Luckily for you guys, we mostly spend it pounding other null sec alliances to death. Which is as it should be. Only when we get bored do we go to high-sec and lay waste.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlIIq5agK7rWdDRnaWwzMVRrYTFCTG1sZEJhTWN1Z1E&authkey=CMng2u0B&hl=en&authkey=CMng2u0B#gid=5 |
corestwo
Goonfleet Investment Banking
543
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Posted - 2012.06.30 00:43:00 -
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I guess I look pretty dumb now :welp: I fought the law, and the law won. At least the law is merciful... |
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Aryth
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
496
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Posted - 2012.06.30 01:02:00 -
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corestwo wrote:I guess I look pretty dumb now :welp:
That's why he's Riker and I'm Picard.
A Picard with an Eyepatch, and a black Hat.
ARRRRR |
Ethilia
Freelance Excavation and Resistance United Outworlders
24
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Posted - 2012.06.30 01:04:00 -
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Holy monkey balls! Where does all that extra isk go? If that monthly surplus is any indication there must be 100's of trillions of isk sloshing around the various bloc wallets .
Also, I find it amusing we cannot dress links properly on the forums. I guess CCP likes undressed ... links. |
corestwo
Goonfleet Investment Banking
543
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Posted - 2012.06.30 01:05:00 -
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Aryth wrote:corestwo wrote:I guess I look pretty dumb now :welp: That's why he's Riker and I'm Picard. A Picard with an Eyepatch, and a black Hat. ARRRRR Better analogy? You're Kirk, I'm Spock. That is, you have all the ideas, and I do all the hard thinkin'. I fought the law, and the law won. At least the law is merciful... |
Ethilia
Freelance Excavation and Resistance United Outworlders
24
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Posted - 2012.06.30 01:05:00 -
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corestwo wrote:I guess I look pretty dumb now :welp:
I generally assume I'm an idiot and thereby am pleasantly surprised once in a while ,
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Aryth
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
496
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Posted - 2012.06.30 01:06:00 -
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corestwo wrote:Aryth wrote:corestwo wrote:I guess I look pretty dumb now :welp: That's why he's Riker and I'm Picard. A Picard with an Eyepatch, and a black Hat. ARRRRR Better analogy? You're Kirk, I'm Spock. That is, you have all the ideas, and I do all the hard thinkin'.
Yep, I get all the space hookers. And the coke. Can't forget all the coke.
Edit: and then I self-destruct said hookers in my personal game of EVE survivor. |
Zastrow
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
65
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Posted - 2012.06.30 04:23:00 -
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meanwhile I get BAD INVESTMENT ADVICE FROM ARYTH
yo ccp make this man whole he owes me 2 bil T W O BILLION INTERSTELLAR KREDITs or islandic kronur i'll take whatever |
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CCP Sreegs
C C P C C P Alliance
1967
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Posted - 2012.06.30 04:24:00 -
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Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putain wrote:Seems to me CCP is just trying to brush this one under the carpet instead of accepting the fact they messed up big time and they're the only ones at fault. This is no different from the older insurance payouts which so many people abused of until it got changed. But classifying it as an exploit only shows a complete detachment either from reality or the English language. By their own admission: CCP Sreegs wrote:This can be compared to foreign exchange manipulation. Now we have all heard of this before, sure. And it's called this for a reason. Ever heard anyone calling it foreign exhange exploit? Let the sandbox play itself out, small government yea!
Yes we're trying to brush it under the carpet so much we made a dev blog about it. I really can't even address how much this is just UGH and this is the basis of every tinfoil situation I'm meant to deal with professionally. I have no words. "Sreegs has juuust edged out Soundwave as my favourite dev." - Meita Way 2012 |
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Pipa Porto
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
177
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Posted - 2012.06.30 04:31:00 -
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CCP Sreegs wrote:Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putain wrote:Seems to me CCP is just trying to brush this one under the carpet instead of accepting the fact they messed up big time and they're the only ones at fault. This is no different from the older insurance payouts which so many people abused of until it got changed. But classifying it as an exploit only shows a complete detachment either from reality or the English language. By their own admission: CCP Sreegs wrote:This can be compared to foreign exchange manipulation. Now we have all heard of this before, sure. And it's called this for a reason. Ever heard anyone calling it foreign exhange exploit? Let the sandbox play itself out, small government yea! Yes we're trying to brush it under the carpet so much we made a dev blog about it. I really can't even address how much this is just UGH and this is the basis of every tinfoil situation I'm meant to deal with professionally. I have no words.
I almost always have words.
Reynold's Kitchen.com is >>>> Thataway!
They're not always useful.
(I'm honestly not sure there's much life left in this thread for productive discussion. You should see if you can strike a deal with Reynolds for a percentage of the sales you'll generate when you eventually close the thread.) -RubyPorto
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Ethilia
Freelance Excavation and Resistance United Outworlders
25
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Posted - 2012.06.30 04:48:00 -
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CCP Sreegs wrote:Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putain wrote:Seems to me CCP is just trying to brush this one under the carpet instead of accepting the fact they messed up big time and they're the only ones at fault. This is no different from the older insurance payouts which so many people abused of until it got changed. But classifying it as an exploit only shows a complete detachment either from reality or the English language. By their own admission: CCP Sreegs wrote:This can be compared to foreign exchange manipulation. Now we have all heard of this before, sure. And it's called this for a reason. Ever heard anyone calling it foreign exhange exploit? Let the sandbox play itself out, small government yea! Yes we're trying to brush it under the carpet so much we made a dev blog about it. I really can't even address how much this is just UGH and this is the basis of every tinfoil situation I'm meant to deal with professionally. I have no words.
Let me tell you what's really infuriating! I have it on good authority everyone in CCP alliance has by far the best carebearing space anywhere! What is worse is that they are paid in a special currency, krona or some such, which has a fantastic exchange rate. They are paid massive amounts of this currency and allowed to exchange it for oodles of PLEX or, if they want, real $$$ like USD or EURO (I guess they need lots of beer and chips while carebearing in Reykjavik system).
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Frying Doom
Zat's Affiliated Traders
366
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Posted - 2012.06.30 04:58:00 -
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Well Lord Zim was right, goons don't get banned for this kind of thing.
The post on the Dev blog "I wrote a blog on "Responsible Disclosures" a year or so ago. In that blog I mention that telling us about something after you've used the heck out of it isn't what we consider to be responsible. We do our best to be lenient in cases such as this but we want this to serve as a notice to the community that the proper time to alert us to the issue was before actually using the system."
It shows as such a good warning "Do what ever you want and we will just roll everything back to pretend it didn't happen." Yeah Good deterant that one.
I at least hope the other members of the 5 are going to shank the snitch. Any Spelling, gramatical and literary errors made by me are included free of charge.
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