All hail the collapse of the economy!

[Quin]

I don't know who arranged it or more importantly , HOW?
But this morning was a blast to watch.  People running around like mad ferrets!


(by the way if you weren't there, don't go buying a Silverweave unless you only pay 10 tria for it )

[Nurahk]

Quite interesting, silverweaves being dropped everywhere along with Tria.

[Xordan]

Exploitz I wouldn't really say PS had a (good) economy before today anyway. It was a bit screwed.

[Gondric]

whats happening?

[zanzibar]

Hmm.  I have no clue what happened, but I already sold all my silverweave items in anticipation of their upcoming stat adjustment.  They're supposed to be only slightly above basic weapons.  My guess is that a dev flooded the market with silverweave weapons since they're going to be worthless in the near future anyway.

[Xordan]

Nah, some people found an exploit which allows you to mass duplicate items. So there's billions of tria just laying around on the floor.

[Bartholin]

was just about to post about that...

me and some rather hardworking ppl tried to clean it up as fast os we could.. but we couldnt this means that a whipe is up very high on the list.

If any of the gms want logs or anything from me just ask.. Me, my guild, my friends, thier friends all helped to get the items from spreading.. but 4 chars keept dropping them.. BILLIONS of tria, sw/iron weapons littered all over the world maps.

Im sorry that such players feel they have to ruin the game for us.. but i guess its unpreventable.

[Nurahk]

And here I was thinking you were just trying to get rich

[Bartholin]

And here I was thinking you were just trying to get rich

nope.. if i was trying to be rich.. i wouldnt have started a pitition, a search and destroy group for the items, thrown the dice match, so on... I no greedy after i hit 1m (legal and thru hard work) i was set.. and stoped being a mercahnt.. BUT ANYWAY... a whipe is def at hand now thanks to the loser/s that decided to hack/cheat the game. And again, ask anyone that saw me ingame (and talked to me) during tonight, and they will tell you that i was desperatly tring to get it all cleaned up. Had my guild travel the lands, then hooked up with some friends and thier guilds.. dont bleave me.. i can send ya the logs (though they have some .. er.. lots of cussing in them..)

And to the cheats.. I HATE YOU ALL! I HOPE YOU DIE!  killed my char life you did..

[bilbous]

Well there was that other thread where someone asked to be rewarded for reporting a "crack" he found, guess he decided to reward himself.....

Might be good anyway, there is enough new stuff to make it worthwhile starting from scratch.

[zanzibar]

If the ecnomy is flooded with money, then we shouldn't worry.  The devs can do a money wipe and bring everyone down to two million trias or whatever.  Things will ballance out with time, especially now that armour needs to be replaced every so often.

[Bartholin]

If the ecnomy is flooded with money, then we shouldn't worry.  The devs can do a money wipe and bring everyone down to two million trias or whatever.  Things will ballance out with time, especially now that armour needs to be replaced every so often.

idk, i think they will just whipe everything.. been talked about for sometime.. how would the devs beable to distinguish between good items that were bought, traded so on.. or money earned.. and tonights found riches? one sw ss 10 tria... 1 fire ss 1m tria umm.. perhapes..

[lordraleigh]

Thanks to this jerk act from a "1337 h4xx0r"  . Now I decided: no more training or mining after next wipe. My characters will be purely based on roleplay until the game engine becomes stable enough for making the use of wipes obsolete(In other words, possibly for decades). Well this is a great opportunity for reviewing the way you play Planeshift(In my case it will be just a platform for Roleplaying, I will ignore fully the current pre-alpha state game systems of cheesy Progression Points, Unbalanced Economy and so on).

Well, I am also tempted of stopping playing and going back only once it reaches 1.0 and it is officially announced that no wipes will ever happen again. Having to gather people to found the same guild again, making all characters from scratch(not so bad for me because of the "No grinding, No mining") is enough to make hundreds give up on playing PS.

And this bug is not new after all. The way it's going this is starting to look like a certain Microsoft O.S. on the "quickness" to fix critical bugs.

[dying_inside]

Lol, Yliakum just had its version of the wall street crash....

Stick that one in the history books!

Thanks to this jerk act from a "1337 h4xx0r"  . Now I decided: no more training or mining after next wipe. My characters will be purely based on roleplay until the game engine becomes stable enough for making the use of wipes obsolete(In other words, possibly for decades).

I dont care what anyone says. Thats was a really stupid thing to sday?
Know why?
Cause there was bound to be a wipe anyway! Might not  have been anytime soon. But it was comming, no doubt. Why? Cause  this games  in beta? because there alot of thing they still need to inevitably work out, alongside this exploit. Big deal your characters now essentially worthless. Suck it up. I think everybody else did.

[peeg]

So the time has come ... I'm quite sure the devs will decide to let a wipe happen with the upcomming update. Maybe a weapon/money wipe would do?
A full wipe would only make sense if they sort out all known exploits first.