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    SWTOR - Emergency Patch To Fix Huge Economy Exploit

    Two things are being fixed tonight that have been bugs since the release of the game. The exploit was kept in the dark mainly so players could reap as much credit as possible. Only recently in the past few days widespread knowledge of the bug came to light.

    -An exploit was available that allowed players to sell stacks to vendors for infinite amount of credit. Literally millions of credits in just 15-20 seconds at a time.

    -Another exploit that is being fixed is a way to get infinite commendations, by buying epic boxes and vendoring it back.

    The problem that has occurred is many servers economy have totally tanked and are ruined as of right now with billions of credits exploited. Hundreds of thousands of items gained with little effort. Some guilds went as far as to buy throwaway accounts to do the exploiting and moved the money through other sources such as AH, mail etc to distribute the credits around.

    It will be interesting how Bioware deals with the problem or whether there will be a way to track down all the tainted credit and who were the people that benefited from the scamming.

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    AH prices on our server are fairly reasonable so I can only hope that we are one of the servers unaffected by this nasty exploit. If they don't figure out a way to get these credits out of the economy on the affected servers it could take quite a long time for prices to normalize again.

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    I blame Bernake.

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    Ouch... that's a pretty big one, I hope they do fix it soon as well.

    ~Edit~

    D'oh.. didn't read the first line real well... looks like it's already fixed! Hunnnggghh..
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    Well the bug itself was fixed but Bioware made no mention of all the extra generated credits lying around or whether the people exploiting would be banned.

    1.0.2c Patch Notes - 1/6/2012
    General
    Fixed an exploit that could allow players to receive more items than intended via in-game mail.
    Resolved an exploit when selling items.
    Flashpoints and Operations
    Karagga's Palace
    Fixed an issue that prevented players from entering the Operation.

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    Oh my god, this was real?

    Oh wow.

    when the morning comes it doesn't seem to say an awful lot to me

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    Yeah, the fallout is bad enough that they put the public forums in Read Only mode last night.

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    I really hope they find the people who were laundering this money and ban them.

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    -An exploit was available that allowed players to sell stacks to vendors for infinite amount of credit. Literally millions of credits in just 15-20 seconds at a time.
    This was an exploit I found in beta, however.. it was never available Live. I tested it first day to make sure it did not work.

    -Another exploit that is being fixed is a way to get infinite commendations, by buying epic boxes and vendoring it back.
    I never saw this, as far as I remember from beta the boxes bought always sold to vendors for credits, not commendations.

    ...Unless one of the newer patches made the exploit available again.
    Last edited by hard2core; 01-06-2012 at 02:31 PM.

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