Professional Farmers

[Concillian]

What could they have done to help those that didn't exploit them? Give them a free horse? I agree that their fix was a little over the top: the sell price went from something like 16s to 66c; i.e. probably not even worth picking up.
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They could have warned that electrolanterns were improperly priced and that repeated farming of them would be considered an exploit. Then when the patch is put in place to fix the prices, they look at people who continued to sell hundreds of lanterns a day and reset the gold value for all the characters tied to that account to zero.

You ahve to use pretty lenient criteria like this so that you only catch the real problem exploiters. Only professional farmers and stupid people would sell electrolanterns every day for two weeks after being warned that excessive selling of lanterns is considered exploiting. Fair warning for the legit players and stiff penalties for the exploiters.

There is not enough punishment going out to people who exploit. They are essentially rewarded for finding a loophole and exploiting it as much as possible before it's patched out.