How a player with a “useless” item almost took down EVE Online’s entire economy

Re:How a player with a “useless” item almost took down EVE O... by glitch273 on Friday May 03, 2013 @05:02PM (#5652625)

Sounds more like a poorly implemented game mechanic more than cleverness on the players part. They basically let their users set the price then distribute rewards based on that.

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Re:How a player with a “useless” item almost took down EVE O... by cdash on Friday May 03, 2013 @05:16PM (#5652690)

The game mechanic itself is not actually the problem here but the way it was implemented left it open to easy exploitation. It can be implemented in a way that is not easy to exploitation though. Basically their algorithm for deciding on the worth of an item based off of market transactions was not good.

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Re:How a player with a “useless” item almost took down EVE O... by Houshalter on Saturday May 04, 2013 @02:05AM (#5654202)

Well fixing the price could be exploitable as well.

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