Massive EVE Online Exploit Surfaces
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:35 pm
http://www.yougamers.com/news/22145_mas ... _surfaces/
The virtual pilots of EVE Online are up in arms over a massive exploit found in EVE that has apparently been going on for four years, ever since moon mining was added to the game.
Accusations are flying thick as it appears that some large alliances who control the "wild" 0.0 regions of space have actually been funding their operations in part by cheating and the playerbase in general are not amused. Official EVE forums are predictably in flames as people are fuming how this could have been going on for so long without the developers noticing anything odd in their supposedly bullet-proof logging of the game systems.
Now those who have never played EVE Online on a high level may find the details of this exploit somewhat hard to understand, but I'll try to explain - read on...