I think what people are neglecting to note is that the flezz board is not this pure and unsullied sacred cow.

-Early in Episode 1 gamblebot had weird rules that favored the player. Unless you were seriously foolish you made flezz steadily. This went on for at least a month before it was fixed – it had a large impact on the leaderboard.

-Streaking and min repair came next. Yeah, we put it in the wiki, but it gave a huge advantage at the time to those in the know.

-DML trolls + Faux News! Hello now no one can do anything except the trolls.

-Episide 2. Players with inside knowledge and/or stockpiles of consumables made a killing overnight. And then there was a short time frame while forums delivered huge piles of flezz.

-Followed by the sudden unannounced price slashing that hosed over everyone who hadn’t sold their junk items.

-And now we have auction transfers. Just browsing last night I saw at least 30 “exploit” auctions. And there are contests based on flezz bids.

It’s just time to say, screw it. These things have been ridiculously unbalanced forever, why keep trying to band aid a situation when simply removing the major incentive will make such a large difference?