Post by spike on Mar 18, 2011 16:46:15 GMT -5
Buying and selling Records does now generate extra Records for Merchants and Smugglers (in specific circumstance that I haven't figured out yet). But the effect gets smaller on each buy/sell cycle, so it's not a Perpetual Infinite Record Generator.
spike -- I think that is probably a bit of a bug. The game should be at least smart enough to not give you more records for the "buy-sell-buy-sell" cycle. Of course, I didn't think of doing that so there are no protections in v3.6.0
OK actually this is exploitable. Very. Maybe I just needed more Negotiation or a special situation. I sat and bought and sold Steel Song's own records back to them repeatedly. Most of the time (not every time but often enough) I created more Records than I sold. There was usually a second toast, Trade Ban Records Created. Steel Song was involved in an Alliance and a Trade War (neither with me).
In the course of this one visit, and zero elapsed time, I gained 300 Rep with Steel Song, 90 XP, and about a quarter of a million credits.
Without delving into the details of what happened, the simple thing to do is probably to block the award of Records for buying / selling Records. Buying and selling other stuff worked fine, there was no free lunch. Or rather, no free banquet.
