So Long, and Thanks For All the F.i.s.h ^^

[anotherone]

Hello Every one

I would like to tell you a short eve story
Today all of my EvE Online accounts were banned
I was sure that this day would come.
What surprises me is that it took CCP this long to catch up with me.
Even though they knew about it.

But now to the story:

The time is November 2004.
The EvE Universe is excited about the Starbase patch.
The new System Sov. is introduced.
The face of Eve has changed.
How right they are.

Two weeks after Patch day we built our first POS.
We wanted a piece of the moon mining pie and also wanted to figure out how it word as none of us knew exactly.
After our first try we were aggravated that we could get it working and decided to try again the next day to finish our project.
The next day to our amazment we found that the silos in our unfinished POS chain were full. After a short time we found out the reason for this phenomenon.
The POS system was BUGGED.
Of course a petition was sent to CCP to make them aware of this situation and the answer was sobering.

“Your petition has been received” CLOSE

But the phenomenon was still there.
After a week we decided what to do.
We built a POS network that included over a dozen POS’s in lowsec and checked the market prices. After a short look we decided on Ferrogel and Fermionic Condensates.

The Story today.

The expanse of this so far is probably lost on most people so I would like to make a few facts clear.
In the past 4 jears we are talking about ISK in value of 2.500.000.000.000 ISK to 3.000.000.000.000 ISK.
That’s 2500 – 3000 billion.
Everyone that owns a T2 item can bet that it was build in part from resources due to this phenomenon.
At this point I would like to thank CCP for making it possible to buy GTC’s with ISK.
So much about us.

What the other 3 large alliances did with this knowledge is unknown to me.
But I can tell you that we’ve sat with coverts in front of POS chains and watched it happen.

Titans are expensive !

In closing.

Some I’m sure will say “well are you proud of yourself?” or “You cheater-exploiter”
I only have one thing to say to that.
.
This issue allowed me to play Eve how and when I liked.
It didn’t matter what item or what happened in Eve. I spent ISK with out thinking about the price.
I haven’t paid a cent for any of my Eve accounts for 4 years now.
And have had many amusing moments reading posts in EVE-O.

I don’t know you and to be honest Eve and most of you I could care less about.
But my thanks go out to you all, you were wonderful statistics on this virtual stage.

Regards,

The Writer

[Shadow Ballet]

Thank you for not caring enough to come here and epeen.
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message_die() was called multiple times. This isn't supposed to happen.

[anotherone]

has nothing to do with epeen. only to show how ccp works with written petitions.

[smagd]

Out of curiosity, what makes you think a petition would help fix a bug?

Somehow I don't think you filed it under Exploit from the way it got closed.

But try listing how to exploit it on here in that very amusing exploit thread and see if you can't get CCP Claw to look into it pronto
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Xen:CCP could master cold fusion and someone would complain that the reactor was too noisy. On Scrapheap it would turn into a threadnaught with a picture of someones dick halfway through.

[elmicker]

So what you're saying is, your moon miners somehow magically filled up your silos with moon products, that you then sold, for isk?!

Why i for one am OUTRAGED that such tossery has gone on for four whole years.

[anotherone]

try it at singularity or the chinese server.

build a gallente large tower. anchor 7 silo, 1 complex reaction array and a coupling array.

buy a reaction blueprint or drug blueprint or what u like.
buy 400 units of each input material
put all together and switch it online.

After 2 batches u deactivate the input links, then switch the input silos off and push apply. the reaction will go on.

compatible to any reaction.

in todays patch is should be fixed
thats it..easy

[Bruno Bonner]

Dear disgruntled and banned former eve player, it would be enlightening to hear from your experience as you describe step by step how to reproduce this wonderful bug.

Would you share the love?


edit: fuck beaten

[anotherone]

done

[mira o'karr]

just wow.

if the op got the ban stick ccp better ban every last person who exploited this.

[Pelias]

What alliance are you from, but most importantly: what are the three other big alliances who did it?

[mira o'karr]

has this been posted on eve-o ?

i m not sure what their stance is on banning (if you dont link to the exploit and dont mentioned how it works and be generally vague about it .. eg. the 2004 POS exploit)

[anotherone]

hmmm?... remove "alliance" fill in "Powerblock"

[Pelias]

Powerblocks? Even better

On related note, if you watched it from your covert ops, you probably have screens.

Post them, that would be mega epic loltastic drama.

It has the potential to be historic moment for SHC, just post the pics.

[FUUUUU]

..this really doesn't create any basis for LOL POWERBLOC X, Y and most of all Z ARE EXPLOITERS!111 if this has been going on for four motherfucking years.

It's CCP being terrible AGAIN.

On another note there's still some exploits in the game that would probably be hilariously easy to fix and they haven't done anything with those either.
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Pigcam

[mira o'karr]

to be honest. i m outright disgusted that it was possible to exploit this for so long.

if it is true it means that nothing of eves current political landscape has any merit whatsoever.