Investigation Request

I checked EP on WG at the time, to see the size of sales and to find out if it triggers auto interventions that are designed to prevent extreme situations.

it did.
not very large ones.

EP is used in nearly all corporations and the volume is very large.
We never had any long lasting market manipulations with such large products.

this time it was different.
A recent exploit allowed for huge purchases and mainly EP appeared from nowhere and sold around.
This made it possible to sell huge amounts, and we wondered what our hardly ever used interventions will do.
(Small interventions happen more frequently, in the past mainly with Services).
Despite all this, EP continues to show shortages in all worlds and only a major increase in production will bring a change.

Getting back to the first message in this discussion, our answer did not go into the details of the order numbers.

We think that the spending space exploit that was used at that period, made it possible to order huge amounts of products.
EP was a good candidate with a very high unit price and a very large market.

Hard to understand the panic about the price of EP.
all corporations producing it were very profitable and after a futile reduction remain very profitable.

what will happen when one day there will be a surplus.

the price now is 150%+ of the base price and could go to less than 50%.
that is a factor of 3.
could happen with all products.
there is no guarantee of a shortage for any product.

As to Auditor and the exposure of all kinds of strange/impossible situations, I must say that we are thankful for the good work.

any bug found in any way at all is helping us.

we have said, all the time the game exists, that we are very interested in info about errors and will do our best to fix them.

bad news is in fact very welcome.
Presented in a constructive way, explaining what the problem is, helps a lot in resolving problems.

Differences about strategy and about what should be done or not, will always remain but error must be fixed.

Many errors were reported to us in the forum or in messages to the gamemaster and we have fixed them ASAP.

On that, I've been experimenting trying to duplicate the conditions and think I finally was able to at least partially. It'll take a couple in game months to fully see but you should receive an e-mail sometime tomorrow (won't detail here on the forum for obvious reasons) as I check how it works out. I'll give you a step by step how I made it work and you can manually remove the assets if they process as I believe they will. Doesn't look like it will be a particularly difficult exploit to fix, so that's good at least.

Additional supporting context. I didn't do exact math but I haven't been looking at my FB countries recently.

My empire alone has more than 400,000 wind turbine deficit. The demand for wind turbines shows 70,000 total. The global market is not suppling me, and the turbines are sitting in corporations.

EO
I think that many of the orders for WT, after sitting there for a long time, were converted to immediate orders.
The immediate orders tried to execute.
This is impossible, and they disappeared, shoing smaller numbers of outstanding orders.

I will look at the automatic conversions of orders into immediate orders and we will, most probably, eliminate the automatic conversion.

It is confusing as we see in this case and it forces players into paying more while they did not intend to.