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IMNSHO, and I know it will probably sound childish, but I think that the people that come on the forums to talk about how they were exploiters and got un-banned or not punished at all should have their posts reported, as much as possible. If they are bullshitting us and trying to make Carbine look bad and they didn't actually exploit in game, oh well, they should have known better. If they are being serious, maybe Carbine will take the hint and re-evaluate the actions against those people.


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I normally don't agree with most of Olivar's posts but his post below yours nails it. While players can "make up stories" as you allege, so can you and the rest of CRB. No one, and I mean no one (except maybe Lethality) believes what you just posted above. All of us know enough raiders in game who have told us in TS/Vent/etc that they made hundreds of plat, got slapped with 3 day suspensions and came back and still had the items they bought with their plat and turned a profit on it. So I call bullhockey on your entire post. If you are going to all North Korea on us with the "trust us, we do the right thing, always" when all the supporting evidence shows otherwise.... well, that is your own game funeral to deal with.


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They most certainly do not! Housing addicts buying CREDD on top of their sub to buy new music pay the bills. :P


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You are presuming that the reason the economy is recovered is because the wealth that was concentrated into the hands of a few people has been removed. The very simple alternative explanation is that they have simply stopped using it to trash the economy and are holding it in storage until the outcry settles down. Then they retain every advantage, can win every auction, can manipulate pieces of the market one at a time instead of all at once and stay in a dominant position indefinitely.


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Not entirely sure how this is different from before "the exploitening". I thought we had PvPers selling boosts and tanks and their momma for 100s of plat already? We've had mysterious spikes in mat prices from time to time. Someone probably is making a killing - maybe? - and two weeks later you're kicking yourself for buying that eldan sign for 20g when it's price is back to normal at 12g.


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Sorry, for those of us not in the know, how exactly do you farm those at a rate of more than 3 plat per hour?


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You're right, they should be publicly announcing all the steps they take to track down exploits and remove exploited items. There is no one that would use that information maliciously. While they are at it, perhaps they should go into detail about how they detect bots, because if we don't know what they are doing then they almost certainly aren't doing anything.

So not a bogeyman, but a shadow cabal of exploiters, waiting for the opportune moment to strike and make another set of riches. On one hand you have Carbine doing a fair job of removing exploited platinum and scaring people that still have theirs into not using it. On the other you have an astonishing cooperation between completely unrelated parties to leave the economy alone despite earlier intentions to do the complete opposite. I find the former to be the one requiring the fewest assumptions.


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I've said my piece. If you have a legitimate response to it then I might continue on, other than that I don't have much more to say on the topic.

Literally conflating correlation with causation. Pretty sure that I am done here.

At this point, your claims about inflation are reaching conspiracy levels.


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