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Originally Posted by Scrooge
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I don't get how this so called "exploit" was even possible, as any item that was attempted to be sold more than once would say something like "Item is misplaced"...or am I the only one who was getting that?
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I stumbled on the exploit by accident, petitioned and put in an detailed message in the exploit section and Rogean responded right away and the server was taken down within 10 minutes. Props to Rogean and crew for that.
It worked like this, if a player sold a stackable item (lets say a rune/word/gem/bonechip) to a vendor that didn't normally stock that item, it would then list the item with a quantity of - (what we would normally think of as unlimited). It wasn't really unlimited of course and some necros probably wet their pants the first time they saw a vendor with "unlimited" bone chips. If someone bought such an item, it would give them the item(s) but would not take your money. The person could then resell the item back to the vendor and keep buying it back for no money and resell it until they were rich, like Mr. Howell on Gilligan's Island.
Unscrupulous people who caught on would then take a high cost item (like a ruby), sell it to a mechant for 130pp (or whatever they vendor for), buy it back for free, resell it to the vendor and rinse and repeat until the economy collapses.
I remember in WOW beta when we had item and gold wipes. It wasn't fun. I didn't want that to happen here.
I also figured that the people doing it were buying irreplaceable items (like manastones, rubicite bps, etc.) which no longer drop. If they got banned (and you knew they would), the items would disappear and the supply would become so low that the late comers like myself (I started about a month ago) would never be able to afford a manastone or other item.
What a mess for Rogean and them to have to undo trades and such. I hope too much damage wasn't done.
I'd like to think I played a small part in saving the economy of the server (ironic huh) and help rid it of some cheaters.
The other side effect was Rogean made me change my name so I am no longer BarackObooma but Thunderstruck. This also made my many corpses across Norrath unrezzable doh!