EVE General Discussion

I made 10s of Billions of isk by taking nearly a Trillion isk worth of Battleships and committing suicide by Concord in the Tennen system. You can see the 2-3 months of increased losses in one of the Economic newsletters since my losses counted as player losses :)

This is the exact same thing the Gooons were doing, they were taking advantage of CCP sucking at pricing things properly. In both cases it was due to CCP trying to force everyone to use a certain price and at the same time CCP was entering the market as an NPC with a bottomless wallet. Why can't CCP just stop with all this crap where they use their infinite money supply as part of a broken game mechanic.

I do not see how what the Goons did is an exploit, and what I did is not. I even asked the GMs before doing massive insurance fraud and they were kind of annoyed I would even bother to ask about something so obviously allowed.

Does anyone see something I am missing?

Is EvE a different game now where this kind of "winning" the game is no longer tolerated?

He's talking complete ****. You could make a few million at most from each ship you did this with when the ship price was crap, but in order to make tens of billions you'd have to do this thousands of times!

For this reason I say this guy is talking out of his

Insurance fraud made a handful of people a handful of ISK.
LP manipulation made a smaller handful of people huge mountains of ISK.
Both have now been fixed...what's the big deal?
If by "winning" you mean making massive loads of ISK of NPCs, then yes. Making massive loads of ISK off players is as encouraged as ever.

You should turn yourself into the proper authorities. And by that, I mean biomass all of your characters.

Is this the attention you wanted?

Who said insurance fraud was not an exploit?

The reason why many people weren't that upset about it was, that it wasn't that competative way to earn money compared to the effort it took. Mostly it just ensured, that it was a bad idea to sell your ships, since it was more efficient to just destroy them yourself instead of letting them rot on the market or play the 0.1 isk games. I did it a few times and calculated what I'd earn, if I did it on a constant basis. It would have been far less then in normal gameplay, required a lot of managing to do on that scale and was extremely boring to do. It was propably a great thing for a dedicated producer with alts, but for the majority it was a meh income source at best.

u mad bro?

It's an exploit, get over it and go do something productive.

Why would I do something productive when I can do something destructive?

That's funny, I don't recall them taking your stuff over it. Also, please dig up where they called it an illegal, punishable exploit.

Well the done. You made a small amount of ISK and the fact that you went into it with 40 manufacturing slots working 24/7 demonstrates beyond any reasonable doubt that you are a complete **** moron!