My biggest mistake and appology (Golden Rainbow)

Prehistory:

Bottom line, I uncovered an exploit Q used in order to advance. I communicated to veteran payers for clarification and found that exploit is well known (I was pointed by veteran player to a bunch corp was established 11 month ago). I also found that it was unspoken rule that exploit is to be used for war countries only, not as a matter of achievement.

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Meantime, it appears unacceptable to veteran player that Q would use such a well known and cheap trick to advance. It did not help he was posing himself as a victim of 0.87% of QL adjustment while making additional undeserving 2B per month per gasoline factory, using an exploit.
In any way, last thing I was made to believe that war is imminent and those players asked me not to report exact details as far as it may damage balance of war-related economy.

PER ASPERA AT ASTRA
It was not my intend to bring Q massive exploit issue that everyone s

Fredmark, what the hell are you talking about? Seriously?

After reading my own federation forums, I realize it now.


I don't consider it an exploit as you do, considering its built into the game and has been known for years by others. Though it was self-discovered by me.


Fredmark, another thing. As many of my federation members and close friends in-game know, real life has been taking its toll on the time I have for the game over the past month or so. I don't have the time to explain every possible aspect of this game to everyone. I'm still learning new things almost every day about this game. It would take me hours upon hours to explain them to someone or to type them out. I don't have that kind of free-time.


As for the market price problem, that effects EVERYONE. And I have repeatedly stated this in my posts and dealings with the gamemaster. Many veteran players I have talked to regarding the problem. EVERYONE's profits are way down due to tha

By the way, Fredmark, who do you think made the MIB's well-known? I did the research based on the documentation data, and figured that out.


I have helped countless players to understand things about this game, and to spread knowledge. Maybe I should just stop doing so all together, since it just results in threats like this.

I think YOU are just upset because I didn't have HOURS to explain to YOU how everything worked. Maybe you should tell everyone how you were wanting to CALL ME in REAL LIFE so we could talk about the game and how it worked? I'm sorry, I don't have that kind of time to devote to anyone, and certainly not over this game. Why don't you tell everyone all the questions you repeatedly were asking me? And how I answered them as best as I could?

I work a full-time job, and have a significant other now. I don't have much time anymore for this game. I haven't for several weeks. <

for the first time ever,. . .

I am . . . speechless?!?!?!

For those who aren't aware of the difference:

Exploit = old nuke loophole, old country-name loophole, old 21-day protection loophole, old invasion bug, etc


This "thing" = not an exploit. It's the same as using targeting priorities to your advantage with the War Engine.

so whats the ting?

Using the fact that not all supplies are equally priced and not all supplies are needed in equal quantity for a corporation to produce a given quality of end product...

Instead of buying all supplies at the same quality via the automated system, you can get the same average quality of supplies at a lower average cost by buying certain supplies at higher quality and others at lower quality. The ideal mix will vary between corporation types.

This isn't a bug or exploit so much as it is an intrinsic feature of the economic game and basic math.

Note this takes a lot of micromanagement, and I don't think it works as well in the game as raw spreadsheet numbers indicate, especially now that producing very high quality products is a waste of money due to the recent bugs/changes.