Item Stack Resale Exploit

I agree the average person doesn't know how to hide, but many of the guides that were online gave info for VPN and IP spoofing

So let me guess this straight, a currency duplication exploit that has been going rampant for six weeks, do not get an emergency patch?

What were they hoping for, people get bored and not do it? Or that it won't spread?

It all really depends on whether BW is willing to spend time doing data analysis to catch these people, it is always possible to do so even with VPN and ip spoofing, It is just a time/money investment.

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Oh lol, Bioware...

Do not in any way get your hopes up that some swift justice or any real punishment is going to happen.

We have had what? 3 major exploits fairly recently (another big one going on now) and not a single time do I recall anyone getting more than a 7 day ban. No one had their credits or gear taken away. They got to keep it all. Rest up for 7 days and come back to the spoils of war.

Worrying about BW banning someone more permanently or dishing out any real punishment is like getting hit with a feather. Sure it might hit you in the eye and cause a little annoyance but thats about it. Done and quickly forgotten as you wait for the next opportunity to exploit this game because the benefit is just worth so much more than any punishment BW hands out.

See this is the kind of account that should absolutely be permabanned. An account that has been created in the last month or so that has been exploiting the whole time and buying/selling on the GTN should be banned with everything they have.

There should be no question about that.

If they can't be bothered to nab the auctions from the obvious exploiters the day they close the exploit, which would take one single person less than an hour to do across all servers even if done manually....

Or worse, if they reckon thats the smart way to go about it...well.

Occam's razor...soup sandwich, worthy of mockery at this point

And all that time/money (money WE paid them) would be better invested in properly testing future patches.

Stellar job hot-fixing the problem BW. Stellar job. Look BW-carebears, I didn't say fixing it was easy. However, do you think finding all exploiters is less of a job than emergency code'a'thon? I sure hope so. Again, horribly managed situation. Notthing else was expected.

Yes, in a heartbeat.

Bare minimum punishment should be all companion and alliance influence reduced to zero, all comm vendor gear removed and all currencies, credits and crystals removed, account-wide. Add the suspensions on top of that, up to and including permabans for the worst offenders.