Mar 12th 2014, 23:35:36
hy·poc·ri·sy (hĭ-pŏk′rĭ-sē)
n. pl. hy·poc·ri·sies
1. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
2. An act or instance of such falseness.
I have been accused by mrford, and by Hammer, of hypocrisy because I argued and fought to have market cheaters identified but am now happily accepting the bonus when I buy $21 oil or sell highly overpriced tech.
The difference now is that until 2 or 3 weeks ago the $21 oil and the expensive tech was directed from one player (eg mrford or ebert00's friend) directly to another player, which is a coordinated transfer of wealth from one country to another. Coordination is defined as cheating.
mrford and CX have cleverly turned the sacrifice of mrford's country wealth into a lottery by spreading it around to whoever has SO's in or is lucky. Of course, when players are busy throwing all their wealth away, like the player last week selling $1001 tech, and the foolish player who bought about $2b worth of food up to $71 at the end but missed the $39 food that remained, someone else will benefit. If people want to throw their wealth way and everyone has an equal chance of getting it, thats not cheating and I'm happy enough to get my piece of it and capitalize on it to the best of my ability.
I'm glad to see that many players now have SO's in for cheap oil, bushels and tech. This stops 1/2 of the market cheating. It occurred to me last set, and maybe I'm a bit slow here, that it would cost me nothing to put a load of $7000 tech on the market at the very end of the set with about 20 minutes to go. Some of that would hit the market before the end of the set and block intentional tech transfers. I'm talking about the tech that you sell at 45 minutes before set end for $1000 that happens to sell in 10 minutes. The remaining tech only has a 50% chance of selling before set end but is worth putting up, since there's nothing to lose.
If everyone put some tech up at the end at $4000 - $7000 across the board, no-one could cheat with the market any more.
And good luck to you all in winning mrford's stupid lottery, thanks mrford for wasting all your time to help us all out.
n. pl. hy·poc·ri·sies
1. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
2. An act or instance of such falseness.
I have been accused by mrford, and by Hammer, of hypocrisy because I argued and fought to have market cheaters identified but am now happily accepting the bonus when I buy $21 oil or sell highly overpriced tech.
The difference now is that until 2 or 3 weeks ago the $21 oil and the expensive tech was directed from one player (eg mrford or ebert00's friend) directly to another player, which is a coordinated transfer of wealth from one country to another. Coordination is defined as cheating.
mrford and CX have cleverly turned the sacrifice of mrford's country wealth into a lottery by spreading it around to whoever has SO's in or is lucky. Of course, when players are busy throwing all their wealth away, like the player last week selling $1001 tech, and the foolish player who bought about $2b worth of food up to $71 at the end but missed the $39 food that remained, someone else will benefit. If people want to throw their wealth way and everyone has an equal chance of getting it, thats not cheating and I'm happy enough to get my piece of it and capitalize on it to the best of my ability.
I'm glad to see that many players now have SO's in for cheap oil, bushels and tech. This stops 1/2 of the market cheating. It occurred to me last set, and maybe I'm a bit slow here, that it would cost me nothing to put a load of $7000 tech on the market at the very end of the set with about 20 minutes to go. Some of that would hit the market before the end of the set and block intentional tech transfers. I'm talking about the tech that you sell at 45 minutes before set end for $1000 that happens to sell in 10 minutes. The remaining tech only has a 50% chance of selling before set end but is worth putting up, since there's nothing to lose.
If everyone put some tech up at the end at $4000 - $7000 across the board, no-one could cheat with the market any more.
And good luck to you all in winning mrford's stupid lottery, thanks mrford for wasting all your time to help us all out.