hmmm well a money wipe of 90% of my reserves would leave me about 20 or so trias, if I was lucky however that's not gonna take long to recoup.
However trias are not everything, as this incident proves, since only the rich are likely to suffer for thier ill-gotten gains, hmmmm I better be careful here, i'm sounding a touch 'communist'.
As for the exploiters, sounds like it's not a simple bug to exploit and leaves tracks in the logs that are obvious enough. I don't think that the dev team are having difficulty finding those who have exploited rather it's a case of giving them the change to be 'honest' and to admit their wrongdoing. I also think that a list of these wrongdoers could lead to in-game harrasment, which is bad for the game in general, and the community in particular.
I think that the server downtime was the only option open to the team, and that far from punishing the honest players, it has protected us from further problems with the economy due to even more excess trias in circulation.
Yes we all miss being online and playing but it's really for the good of the game, the players and the devs that this situation is dealt with, swiftly, and as justly as possible. I'm certain that the issue has been discussed and a consensus reached with regard to the best way to deal with those who blatantly exploited this bug, and that the action taken will be the best for everyone concerned, I'm also sure that anyone who took no part in these exploits has nothing to fear.
I don't think we need to know the details of the actual exploit, or the bug, it sounds like it isn't a simple process and that it's unlikely to have gone unnoticed by anyone who may have found it accidentally, if it was simple then a lot more of us would have discovered it, and it would have been discovered that much sooner.
Unfortunatly there are those who seek advantage over their fellows, in every walk of life, games are no different, in fact almost everywhere a game is played, there are people looking to scam, exploit or cheat to prove that they are in some way superior others, generally those that do are without honour, and only prove that they are in fact inferior, since they cannot reach these heights on their own merit, rather than anger, I feel pity for them, poor players, who will not understand that an attainment is it's own reward and can only be earned honestly.
