Thouths on the latest drama

Ok, so people are going crazy over the latest exploit. My only comment here is that the only reason that they are going crazy is that the exploit was described in detail on a 3rd party site and has been in existence for 4 years.

1. Chill people. The PvP whiners have no cause to bitch about this one (mainly since it's their bitching that allows things like this to slip thru).
   
2. In a system as complex as EVE things will slip thru. Depending on the way the bug report is worded something else may have been addressed, without the original (and any subsequent) bug reports we'll never know.
3. Not all but most of the developers are more worried about PvP. So it's understandable if the PvP centric developers and bug hunters let stuff like this get thru - "it's industry, who cares, where's the pew pew".
4. The industry and corporate management level of EVE is some of the most bug ridden arround. Hell it's realy easy to accidentaly create too many shares for a corp but have them reported wrong. Still.
   
5. Probably due to the concentration on "PvP stuff affects the most people". Well no actualy industry does, since everyone is affected by the market and the guys who sit inside a station and trade all evening long arent' particularely affected by PvP.
6. From the looks of it the team in charge of industry is actualy quite a small portion of the CCP work force, and does not get a lot of resources to address industry issues so it's not surprising that stuff like this can slip thru (heck take a look how the supposed industry update got sidetracked into a performance update).
   
7. Maybee we'll get lucky and this will cause CCP to allocate some resources to continue to clean up the industry side of the game. There's still plenty of irritants and bugs (and probably as yet undiscovered exploits) left on the industry side (Veldspar cap anyone?).

Look, the biggest driving force behind new development at CCP has always been the Pew Pew side of things. Industry is there to provide the tools and be sitting ducks for the most part. It's hardly surprising that stuff like this slips thru nor that it's not caught for 4 years. The industry side of the EVE player base has learned to live with the situation because the industry and market are WAY more interesting than any other MMO out there. As I've pointed out before. At the end of the day, the offending parties have been banned. That's all we ask.

Who cares which alliances were involved - that's highly un-important, since it directly affected a minority of pilots. Those involved would have been part of the 13% of pilots that operate in 0.0. The most affected by this issue are the moon mining alliances in 0.0 (dont' kid yourselves, most of the low sec moons with actual value are owned by 0.0 alliances anyways - remember when the Black Rise area came out and the russians were on a moon claiming rampage?) also a minority. The indirect effects of an over-supply of T2 ships and modules in the game simply mean that T2 has been cheaper than it should have been which is probably a bonus for all those of us in low sec and high sec who want to use T2 stuff.

What's important is will CCP allocate a few more resources to address the industry issues?