Glitch in the Gold Generators?

[Gash Thrashum]

Thanks goes to Menstrual Cramps for the thread summary and the rest of the information provided in both her thread and this one.

Go here for the latest:

http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/gaia-community-discussion/staff-interfering-with-the-marketplace-inflation-tickets/t.94022781_1/

Read through this thread to understand how it all began.

[Lyonel Noale]

oh my god that just skyrocketed >:O

i hope that's not true

they were just starting to get the marketplace back to bloody normal

[x3rubiachica3x]

What the ********?!?! classified_fu

I don't follow gold generators at all, but it wouldn't surprise me that Gaia doesn't say a word about it if they were glitching out of control...

[Eurydice Evyn]

Well, guess I'm never gonna be able to buy anything I want ever again. emotion_awesome

The smile hides the fact that I'm dead inside.

[LicorSkein]

Its not the gold gens guys, there were a couple really big purchases on the Marketplace yesterday- a double rainbow ticket, rainbow tickets and several angelic halos. The Marketplace graph doesn't track how much gold is in Gaia, it just tracks what's trading hands.

[Gash Thrashum]

x3rubiachica3x

What the ********?!?! classified_fu

I don't follow gold generators at all, but it wouldn't surprise me that Gaia doesn't say a word about it if they were glitching out of control...

It's apparently patched now, but the sort of damage something like that does to an already shitty economy is ridiculous. It completely undoes every countermeasure to curb inflation. I understand that glitches happen, but they need a way to effectively undo any sort of damage that comes from it.

[Lady Vizsla]

Wow shoulda bought a gold gen lol

[Gash Thrashum]

LicorSkein

Its not the gold gens guys, there were a couple really big purchases on the Marketplace yesterday- a double rainbow ticket, rainbow tickets and several angelic halos. The Marketplace graph doesn't track how much gold is in Gaia, it just tracks what's trading hands.

Yeah, this is a totally normal purchase.

http://www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/itemdetail/10047577

[Madam Ace]

Think the coders got Zero Stroke when writing the payout limits?

Whoops.

[sterek]

Gash Thrashum

LicorSkein

Its not the gold gens guys, there were a couple really big purchases on the Marketplace yesterday- a double rainbow ticket, rainbow tickets and several angelic halos. The Marketplace graph doesn't track how much gold is in Gaia, it just tracks what's trading hands.

Yeah, this is a totally normal purchase.

http://www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/itemdetail/10047577

Oh. Oh wow. emotion_8c

[Zero Omega]

Gash Thrashum

I'm hearing that there was a glitch in the gold gens yesterday which allowed people to recieve trillions in gold. This would explain the huge spike in the MP and all the item listings getting bought out/ABPs going up.



Does anyone know more about the situation? I don't have any confidence in Gaia clearing things up or making any sort of announcement about it.

This is not a case of gold generators. We just finished investigating this and found it was a result of one particular user purchasing a Double Rainbow Ticket for 300 trillion gold. The Marketplace graph is not necessarily a representation of how much gold is in the economy or being generated by gold generators. It tracks how much gold has moved through the Marketplace only. Lots of things can make the graph rise or fall. For example, if we had a bunch of older users with lots of gold come back to the site and purchase a lot of things on the Marketplace, it can rise. If we had a bunch of users sell incredibly high priced items, it can rise. On the flip side, if people decided to stop using the Marketplace, it will fall. In this case, a user had enough gold to conduct a large transaction like this and spike the graph. I predict it will dramatically fall back to normally levels tomorrow if MP spending remains normal.

Also, before there are concerns about hacked/exploited gold, we investigated the user in question and found that all the gold was clean. It was a legitimate transaction, albeit abnormal.

[LicorSkein]

Gash Thrashum

LicorSkein

Its not the gold gens guys, there were a couple really big purchases on the Marketplace yesterday- a double rainbow ticket, rainbow tickets and several angelic halos. The Marketplace graph doesn't track how much gold is in Gaia, it just tracks what's trading hands.

Yeah, this is a totally normal purchase.

http://www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/itemdetail/10047577

Tickets and halos are never normal purchases, they're always super expensive and create a spike in the market when they're sold.

[Samajama93]

burning_eyes dead inside....

[x3rubiachica3x]

Gash Thrashum

x3rubiachica3x

What the ********?!?! classified_fu

I don't follow gold generators at all, but it wouldn't surprise me that Gaia doesn't say a word about it if they were glitching out of control...

It's apparently patched now, but the sort of damage something like that does to an already shitty economy is ridiculous. It completely undoes every countermeasure to curb inflation. I understand that glitches happen, but they need a way to effectively undo any sort of damage that comes from it.

Reverting some ABP's that were affected would be a nice start..and maybe some sort of notice...

[Gash Thrashum]

Zero Omega

Gash Thrashum

I'm hearing that there was a glitch in the gold gens yesterday which allowed people to recieve trillions in gold. This would explain the huge spike in the MP and all the item listings getting bought out/ABPs going up.



Does anyone know more about the situation? I don't have any confidence in Gaia clearing things up or making any sort of announcement about it.

This is not a case of gold generators. We just finished investigating this and found it was a result of one particular user purchasing a Double Rainbow Ticket for 300 trillion gold. The Marketplace graph is not necessarily a representation of how much gold is in the economy or being generated by gold generators. It tracks how much gold has moved through the Marketplace only. Lots of things can make the graph rise or fall. For example, if we had a bunch of older users with lots of gold come back to the site and purchase a lot of things on the Marketplace, it can rise. If we had a bunch of users sell incredibly high priced items, it can rise. On the flip side, if people decided to stop using the Marketplace, it will fall. In this case, a user had enough gold to conduct a large transaction like this and spike the graph. I predict it will dramatically fall back to normally levels tomorrow if MP spending remains normal.

There was a really high level of activity on the MP yesterday. Items that normally would not be purchased at specific prices were being bought. Item listings were being bought out entirely. While I would like to take your word on it, I think there's more to it than a single user purchasing a ticket for an astronomical price. I watched the market very closely yesterday and had items of my own bought for ridiculously high prices.