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Dynamic economy
Expand the Dynamic economy to all corvus stations
soon™
Some of the exploit problems we already had were significant, and led to some challenges (on-going) around community management.
You can see that "Latos Economy Expansion" is on the Current Direction Goals sticky.
But, there's also a lot of un-sexy stuff around player administration, abuse mitigation and exploit management that are on that list as well.
Basically, I can't afford to spend weeks doing forensic-accounting of exploits and related player "money/item and multi-account laundering" every time there's a problem. The blowback from past exploits has, in some cases, sucked up months of time.
So, we're trying to build enough infrastructure that managing future issues is less complex and developer-intensive. But, the tradeoff is that building the infrastructure and tools are complex projects themselves.
I get that this Suggestion is really intended to just be a minimalist expansion, and I'll take it under consideration. But, the issue is more the amount of damage that some people can and are-willing to do in a short period of time, and how that can end up unwinding or stalling months (or years) of effort for us.
You can see that "Latos Economy Expansion" is on the Current Direction Goals sticky.
But, there's also a lot of un-sexy stuff around player administration, abuse mitigation and exploit management that are on that list as well.
Basically, I can't afford to spend weeks doing forensic-accounting of exploits and related player "money/item and multi-account laundering" every time there's a problem. The blowback from past exploits has, in some cases, sucked up months of time.
So, we're trying to build enough infrastructure that managing future issues is less complex and developer-intensive. But, the tradeoff is that building the infrastructure and tools are complex projects themselves.
I get that this Suggestion is really intended to just be a minimalist expansion, and I'll take it under consideration. But, the issue is more the amount of damage that some people can and are-willing to do in a short period of time, and how that can end up unwinding or stalling months (or years) of effort for us.