Two days ago it was discovered that there was a bug in the starbase reactors that would let you create high end materials for T2 production without actually fuelling it with the necessary compounds. This exploit has, according to the reporter, been around since 2004 and also been used by a numerous people, corps and alliances.
According to the post on another fansite by a person who claims he found it, the revenue of this exploit since 2004 estimates to several thousands of billions of ISK.
CCP made a post about it here and decided to ban the players and their accounts after a days worth of investigation in the matter. As a result, most of the T2 market prices has now gone drastically up in price. I guess this is due to a few things. First of all I believe that speculation is behind the bigger part of the price increase, but naturally, it will also be because of this exploit as the availability of these components will drop quite fast and hence prices go up.
Anyway. Another dark day for New Eden nontheless. No wonder all those T2 BPO’s always sold for so silly amounts, anyone with that much money could easily buy them all. The market is indeed screwed. Makes me wonder if the best way forward wouldnt be to just put those BPO’s bought from dirty money back in the agent lottery again.
