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I logged in last night to do some trading. Bought up a load of gold to trade, jumped, and docked at the next station. Looked at my cargo and it was empty. Credits were still gone of course. Now I'm space poor. Thanks Frontier. I can only hope something comes of the support ticket I put in.
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So I arrived at Big Harry's but there's absolutely nothing in the station and it doesn't look like the other two stations in the system will let me dock my anaconda there. Any nearby systems that sell tons of platinum I can jettison for people? Also I'm thinking about just resetting my save since infinite money is a bit fun but it's getting boring really fast. And it'll probably get rolled back anyway, right? Frontier wouldn't just ignore someone who got 5 billion credits from their failing server? kalstrams posted:Haha, I didn't even checked that, I just went off his balance and how much did he say he had +- some margin for guess. Also, I couldn't buy full A gear; the station only had C power plant, B frame shift and D sensors. Ambaire fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Jan 2, 2015 |
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Ambaire posted:So I arrived at Big Harry's but there's absolutely nothing in the station and it doesn't look like the other two stations in the system will let me dock my anaconda there. Any nearby systems that sell tons of platinum I can jettison for people? Oh man, don't delete yet, let me get there for some sweet palladium  I am piss poor, still trying to make at least a 100 k
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Ambaire posted:So I arrived at Big Harry's but there's absolutely nothing in the station and it doesn't look like the other two stations in the system will let me dock my anaconda there. Any nearby systems that sell tons of platinum I can jettison for people? I wouldn't delete yet, Frontier might want a look at your save. Go pick a fight with one of Patreus' capships or something.
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Ambaire posted:Also I'm thinking about just resetting my save since infinite money is a bit fun but it's getting boring really fast. And it'll probably get rolled back anyway, right? Frontier wouldn't just ignore someone who got 5 billion credits from their failing server? You have been given a superpower. You have been granted the mantle of the vengeful santa claus. You must use this to the full extent of your power to screw with people/benefit people until you're cash is back down to an "acceptable" level. But seriously, the interdicting ships to give them gifts thing is great, people would be absolutely terrified of you. Also! You can play around with the spinal cannon, the most powerful weapon in the game, which none of us have gotten to do yet! Tell us how well it works! Blow up a station or two!
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Ambaire posted:Frontier, you done hosed up. Keep in mind I only started playing this game about 3 days ago, and been in solo mode 100% of that time as I learn how to play the game. Last night, thanks to the server troubles, one of my modules bugged out and let me sell it for about 4.5 billion credits or something insane. This morning, I log on and it actually sold for that much; I had over 5 billion credits. Lucky sod. Ori fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Apr 26, 2015 |
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IronDoge posted:I logged in last night to do some trading. Bought up a load of gold to trade, jumped, and docked at the next station. Looked at my cargo and it was empty. Credits were still gone of course. Now I'm space poor. Thanks Frontier. I can only hope something comes of the support ticket I put in. Or, clearly, your job is to reunite your plundered wealth with it's rightful owners, like this guy right here. Preferably in a ludicrous situation where he has no chance of claiming it all.
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Alright, I moved to Fort Futhark, 14LY from Big Harry's, and they have 34k palladium, 13k per unit. I have to take a trip into town today a bit later but if I still have this wealth when I get back maybe we can coordinate a goon giveaway thing. I don't have a mic nor headset but I suppose we could do something via mumble chat.
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I'm going to say the unpopular thing and suggest that maybe spreading your bug wealth is a bad thing.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:I'm going to say the unpopular thing and suggest that maybe spreading your bug wealth is a bad thing. At the very least it seems reasonable to spread it to those who lost their wealth to the same bug, no? Which will only leave him with 4.5 billion left to go. 
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:I'm going to say the unpopular thing and suggest that maybe spreading your bug wealth is a bad thing. At this point it'd probably be better for him to just open a ticket with the time he logged back in and had the cash, and when he sold whatever to get the billions of space dollars. But whatever, credits don't matter right guys? (I want 4.5 billion  )
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Before I leave, the Anaconda is extremely big and awkward and even if I could obtain it legit, I'd never use something like this for mining; I tried a bit and the perceived length of the ship as seen from the bridge is more than the perceived max range of your mining lasers extending from the front of the ship. Scooping cargo is an exercise in frustration. To quote a person earlier in the thread, it maneuvers like a beached dead whale.
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Ambaire posted:Before I leave, the Anaconda is extremely big and awkward and even if I could obtain it legit, I'd never use something like this for mining; I tried a bit and the perceived length of the ship as seen from the bridge is more than the perceived max range of your mining lasers extending from the front of the ship. Scooping cargo is an exercise in frustration. To quote a person earlier in the thread, it maneuvers like a beached dead whale. Does this qualify as  ?e: What happens if you use your plasma cannon on an asteroid? Also, please shoot a station with it before you delete your save.
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Ambaire posted:Before I leave, the Anaconda is extremely big and awkward and even if I could obtain it legit, I'd never use something like this for mining; I tried a bit and the perceived length of the ship as seen from the bridge is more than the perceived max range of your mining lasers extending from the front of the ship. Scooping cargo is an exercise in frustration. To quote a person earlier in the thread, it maneuvers like a beached dead whale.
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Toplowtech posted:You should have brought a python it's big yet agile. Also FYI you can just boost toward most smaller ships and see them explode on your shield. He can buy a python. He can buy many pythons. He is a one goon armada. He is Legion.
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IronDoge posted:I logged in last night to do some trading. Bought up a load of gold to trade, jumped, and docked at the next station. Looked at my cargo and it was empty. Credits were still gone of course. Now I'm space poor. Thanks Frontier. I can only hope something comes of the support ticket I put in. I had a situation where an all-in trade resulted in no money and no goods, so I had to sell a laser to keep trading. Next morning my balance was back to square. only thing I can think is that they have some transaction delays.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:I'm going to say the unpopular thing and suggest that maybe spreading your bug wealth is a bad thing. GlyphGryph posted:At the very least it seems reasonable to spread it to those who lost their wealth to the same bug, no?
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Ambaire posted:Before I leave, the Anaconda is extremely big and awkward and even if I could obtain it legit, I'd never use something like this for mining; I tried a bit and the perceived length of the ship as seen from the bridge is more than the perceived max range of your mining lasers extending from the front of the ship. Scooping cargo is an exercise in frustration. To quote a person earlier in the thread, it maneuvers like a beached dead whale. It has to be better than the Type-9 I just switched into - the drat thing struggles keeping up with a station's rotation, and god help you if you have to make a 180 turn in frameshift 
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Jonah Galtberg posted:Aside from the ethics (or whatever) of sharing the bug money around, Frontier would probably take a dim view of it They have the logs and could presumably reverse it without warning.
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Ambaire posted:Before I leave, the Anaconda is extremely big and awkward and even if I could obtain it legit, I'd never use something like this for mining; I tried a bit and the perceived length of the ship as seen from the bridge is more than the perceived max range of your mining lasers extending from the front of the ship. Scooping cargo is an exercise in frustration. To quote a person earlier in the thread, it maneuvers like a beached dead whale. Dude I just wanted to pop in and say I hope you get away with this, if it were me I'd ride it out and hopefully be a space Bill Gates. I hope you get to keep all that stuff, it's hilarious  Edit: Is this you: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=90723 peter gabriel fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Jan 2, 2015 |
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Sekenr posted:Is 117 k enough to buy and adder and friendship drive?
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kalstrams posted:No, this won't be a good friendship drtive and a nice fuel scoop. 'Decent' starts at maybe 300k (inc. ship). Thanks
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So I lost all my rare cargo last night due to an NPC blocking me in and the station killing me, I log in today and I have all the cargo back, I love these server glitches!
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Hav posted:They have the logs and could presumably reverse it without warning. Yes, but it could possibly make it more complicated for them to reverse with the money being spent by an increasing number of players on an increasing number of things one player buying some sweet ships isn't too big of a deal, multiple players buying ships and trading and influencing faction standings and killing other players and so on and so forth might be a trickier proposition (nb: I don't actually know if this is true)
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Sekenr posted:Thanks
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Jonah Galtberg posted:Yes, but it could possibly make it more complicated for them to reverse with the money being spent by an increasing number of players on an increasing number of things We need to do some money laundering
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The newsletter that came out now and reminded about the cash prize for Elite status makes reporting the money bug on the very least something you should do asap. With actual money on the line in their competition for people to reach Elite status in one of the three branches it could put them in a bad light if they weren't aware some people could cheat their way (not saying your accident was on purpose, or foul intent planned) to a incredibly powerful ship making the Elite grind a lot quicker.
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Zsinjeh posted:The newsletter that came out now and reminded about the cash prize for Elite status makes reporting the money bug on the very least something you should do asap. I'd bet that anyone in the running for the cash prize was poopsocking hard enough to be in endgame ships well before yesterday.
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Not to mention the fine print states Frontier will be examining the records of any potential winner with a fine-toothed comb. Something tells me "CMDR Poopsock suddenly acquired a billion credits" wouldn't go unnoticed.
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fezball posted:I'd bet that anyone in the running for the cash prize was poopsocking hard enough to be in endgame ships well before yesterday.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Not to mention the fine print states Frontier will be examining the records of any potential winner with a fine-toothed comb. Considering all the bugs running amok right now I'm pretty sure every potential winner will have records looking like a nightmare to comb through. But of course, bugs producing billions of credits are the more obvious ones. The small-scale stuff will make them regret ever having had this idea, though.
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kalstrams posted:I doubt someone has legitiamtely cashed up about a billion or so in two weeks. That would put the person at about 2.4 mil/hour, counting every hour since release. True, but cash itself doesn't get you ranks. While you can make a half-billion Anaconda, it simply isn't needed for current PVE content - I'd guess about 100-150 million (probably even less) will get you a ship that allows you to kill/trade/explore as fast as is possible currently, and that was definitely doable (especially if you got in before the rare goods nerf).
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fezball posted:True, but cash itself doesn't get you ranks. While you can make a half-billion Anaconda, it simply isn't needed for current PVE content - I'd guess about 100-150 million (probably even less) will get you a ship that allows you to kill/trade/explore as fast as is possible currently, and that was definitely doable (especially if you got in before the rare goods nerf).
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I like how the idiots were all so careful about this carefully crafted grind experience that you had to spend a million hours to fly the big ships, and suddenly lol gently caress you bugs everywhere and players get five billion credits and blow the mystery away for everyone else. I still have a loving useless ship sitting in the hangar and been waiting 24 hours to get an answer to my ticket. Why did they have to make this game online at all jesus.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Not to mention the fine print states Frontier will be examining the records of any potential winner with a fine-toothed comb. And since those poopsockers have played enough to have these bugs happen to them, they all get to be disqualified. But seriously, imagine you were in the running and this happened to you - what would you even do? (The contest was a terrible idea immediately before a multi-week vacation on the part of support staff)
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