MC Banhammer Posted:

The exploit was with frugality, not with the items.

I’m not privy to who found the exploit. It’s possible CZ found it during some testing.

I don’t’ see how that makes sense. If the problem was with Frugality, then all items would have been exploitable.

If it was specific to Computers, then that strongly implies there was an issue with those item types.

We see items that do not hold to the standard ‘Base Cost x Frugality Factor = Max/Min Store Prices’. Books, for example. The maximum sale price for a Book in the Ppwn Shoppe is far, far less than its Base Cost. Therefore, it’s obvious that some form of sale price limit on Books has been artificially enforced.

If computers, and only computers, were causing this glitch/exploit, why not change those three items to act similarly to Books (storyline validation: Computers become Obsolete very, very quickly, so they don’t resell for as much as normal), and thereby avoid creating such a serious skew in the economy of every other single item at high Frugality?