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The way I see it is this. Players knew we were going to merge with inventory and no money so they spent money on inventory. Much of the money that was spent prior to the merge was exploit money. Since there was no way to smuggle the cash into the new city they purchased goods and in effect smuggled it in that way. True that was a perfectly legal thing to do but even legal actions often have consequences. In this case everyone is suffering because some players were selfish enough to bring several lots full of items so "they didnt have to suffer in the new city".
Nothing will change until the player base grows enough to absorb all the excess merchandise or the excess merchandise is deleted from the game.
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Its not really selfishness, its more like being smart. I mean, I made my $ by selling rares I held on to. Im 99.9% sure that the money used by others to buy my rares was exploit money.
And I never spent it because I never wanted to spend it for a $300 million simolean St. Bernard. And since I never spent any of the $ I made by selling rares, I just decided to stock up.
Now anyone could have done this, 97% (using the #'s luc gave us long ago ) of the population had more than 10 Million simoleans, In total I brought what would have been worth 1.7 million simoleans (including rares, excluding trees).
So 97% of players could have done the same thing, no need for the blame game.
My original plans for EA Land was to start a business which sold goods for cheap and take the money made of the store to buy lots when the mutli-lot feature was implemented and start a real estate service.
In RL, if you were to give up a fortune of $600,000,000 to move to a new land, but you could bring anything you wanted, wouldn't you buy things and then sell them in the new location?
Im sure most of us would....!
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Saying that you are 99.9% sure that the money used to buy your rares was exploit money is saying that you (indirectly) took part in the exploiting. Great, at least you can admit it, that gives you character points that some others don't have who can't admit they cheat, but still you're part of the problem. The question is now do you want to continue to be part of the problem or do you want to be part of the solution. THERE IS NO IN-BETWEEN. Choose your side and wear the badge proudly, but know that everybody who chooses to be a part of the problem from this point forward will have to be able to look at themselves and say that they helped kill a game that we all love. I'm not willing to say that, so I'm not going to be part of the problem....what's your choice going to be? Not just you, but everybody who falls into the same class as you, of people who gained exploit money and knew damn well that it was exploit money, but considered it 'clean' when it got into their hands because they did not directly partake in the exploit. Guilt by association is still guilt, IMO.
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Almost all of the money used to buy any object in AV or BF, from any person was exploit money. Much of us were unaware of it until the exploit news broke, and then even more people used it to make a fortune.
I knew danm well just like all the others who did trades, who sold their items (rare or regular) in stores, who provided services for a fee (house designers). So in your opinion, it would classify most if not all of the TSO population as cheaters
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Did you provide a service in the old tso? Did you make any money from selling items, or designing houses, did you do any transfers or trades, did you barter at all.
If you did, it is more than likely that you, also were given money that came from the exploit.
So it was nearly impossible to not get infected with exploit money.
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Yes I did and yes I hold myself culpable for that just as I do anybody else, but I did not come over from the production cities with an inventory chug full of objects BECAUSE of that fact. I let EA wipe that money because you're right, almost every simolean was exploit money at that point, so yeah let them wipe it. If I had been ignorant of that fact, and found out after the merges, then I'd follow the same course of action that PJ said she's going to follow, I'd get rid of that merchandise because it is ill-gotten at this point. It's kinda like selling stolen goods in RL or selling goods that you bought with drug money or something. Nobody really *earned* that money in the old game toward the end, therefore deleting the inventory should not be as big a deal as players are making it out to be, especially if it gets the results that EVERYBODY wants, the economy back in line like it should be.
I applaud anybody who puts their own interests aside and does this, for I truly believe that it will help this game as a whole if they do, but how much it will help is all dependent on how many people get on board with it. Just like I said last night......be a part of the problem or be a part of the solution.
