STARC-114307

Description

Selling cargo twice - doubling aUEC for commodities sales

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Priority

Priority: MediumMedium

was chosen MAIN

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Reproduction Steps

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1) Purchase or acquire any commodity with any ship
2) Travel to a location which purchases that commodity (which allows you to store & retrieve your ship)
3) Store your ship
4) Sell those commodities at a commodity terminal
5) Log out
6) Log back in
7) Retrieve your ship
8) Sell your commodities a second time.
9) This allows you to ~2.4x your aUEC in about 15 minutes (supply & demand dependent)

What happened
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This allows you to ~2.4x your aUEC in about 15 minutes, dependent on:

  • Supply of sufficiently valuable commodities (e.g. RMC)
  • Having a ship with sufficient storage Cargo
  • Sufficient demand at selling locations

Further Details in the below YouTube Video:

https://youtu.be/Db2HKoa17X0

What should have happened
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After commodities on your ship are sold they shouldn't be able to be sold a second time, this could be a database write speed latency issue, but that's just speculation.

Workaround
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Yeah, don't log off and on again, it's not negatively impacting player experience, but it is an exploit that players could take advantage of and render the data CIG get from trading, economy etc. far LESS useful.

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declared duplicates

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Activity

Tina Moser 16 June 2024, 20:37

Selling cargo twice - doubling aUEC for commodities sales