Its price was changed on live as it was too cheap away to produce ore. making ore from rusty weapons is outside the scope of p99 so the fix isn't needed.
Making a couple of copper from upgrading rusty to tarnished is not exploitable; in the same time you can grind far more cash from level 1 mobs. Using the 'exploit' as such lowers the speed cash enters the economy!
The real pain of this bug is it makes levelling blacksmithing from 25 to 26 that little bit morr painful; you're paying 1.6pp per sword instead of 2.9 gold.
If cash exploits are a concern price rusty two handed swords to buy as the same tarnished two handed swords are sold for so there is no copper to be made.
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