Making tons of gold

[Leo the Conqueror]

I check back here and make slow progress. The game is definitely dead. After all, it is a browser game that caters to an older generation. Without appeal to new players (who would probably rather be playing OG Fortnite), the playerbase shrinks and shrinks as players leave but new ones don't join. There was a good amount of players that joined during the pandemic with nothing else to do (myself included), but now it seems people have gone back to their real lives. I log on because I still like the game and the nostalgia that comes with it, but I don't expect it to last much longer unless drastic changes were made.

[William one eye]

I check back here and make slow progress. The game is definitely dead. After all, it is a browser game that caters to an older generation. Without appeal to new players (who would probably rather be playing OG Fortnite), the playerbase shrinks and shrinks as players leave but new ones don't join. There was a good amount of players that joined during the pandemic with nothing else to do (myself included), but now it seems people have gone back to their real lives. I log on because I still like the game and the nostalgia that comes with it, but I don't expect it to last much longer unless drastic changes were made.

This topic is about a player who thought he found a way to cheat the game, did not report it, started planning exactly how he would do it,
never getting around to doing it, then admitting he was going to cheat the game, and suggesting others should try it out.

The activity level of the game, or admin has no bearing on cheating.

Either you are a cheater, and you get away with it or you get caught ( or in this case you are to lazy to follow through )
or you try your best to play the game the way it is intended and you make it or you don't.

I suggest starting a new topic to complain about game activity.

[Lil Lola]

Ooh William that is a good idea for a topic. I do not think there is a formal complaint department..maybe it can be called Fenik’s Fine Whine..or Lamenting Leo’s..or Danik’s Gripe and Grouse. Although I would keep in UOH. General discussion is often more modded and then the usual gang of complainers will have more instances to be upbraided about.

[Leo the Conqueror]

This topic is about a player who thought he found a way to cheat the game, did not report it, started planning exactly how he would do it,
never getting around to doing it, then admitting he was going to cheat the game, and suggesting others should try it out.

The activity level of the game, or admin has no bearing on cheating.

Either you are a cheater, and you get away with it or you get caught ( or in this case you are to lazy to follow through )
or you try your best to play the game the way it is intended and you make it or you don't.

I suggest starting a new topic to complain about game activity.

Is it a cheat though? it seems like it would take a lot of effort to pull off, and there are no current rules against it. Just because no one else had thought of it doesn't mean it's a cheat. Maybe it is cheating, maybe it isn't. That's up to cj to decide. But in reality pulling off what he is describing would take thousands of turns and hundreds of thousands of materials, plus a significant GC investment.

[Most Lee Harmless]

'Danik's Gripe and Grouse' ?

Sounds like a rather alcoholic teething remedy for fractious brats... oh...

Danik's Dastardly Drunken Diatribes... yeah..... for the more mature audience.

[Lil Lola]

Sure if they want to pretend they are mature then Daniks Dastardly Drunken Diatribes would be perfect. I’m sorry that by the time I got to you I was out of Ideas for names. Drunk sure is the truth.

[William one eye]

This topic is about a player who thought he found a way to cheat the game, did not report it, started planning exactly how he would do it,
never getting around to doing it, then admitting he was going to cheat the game, and suggesting others should try it out.

The activity level of the game, or admin has no bearing on cheating.

Either you are a cheater, and you get away with it or you get caught ( or in this case you are to lazy to follow through )
or you try your best to play the game the way it is intended and you make it or you don't.

I suggest starting a new topic to complain about game activity.

Is it a cheat though? it seems like it would take a lot of effort to pull off, and there are no current rules against it. Just because no one else had thought of it doesn't mean it's a cheat. Maybe it is cheating, maybe it isn't. That's up to cj to decide. But in reality pulling off what he is describing would take thousands of turns and hundreds of thousands of materials, plus a significant GC investment.

In my opinion It is not a cheat while you would not be using the feature as intended the amount of effort involved to build and add guns and crew to that many ships is extremely significant. In addition as you state, the player would be using turns, GC, and resources and would definitely be reliant on and supporting the market system.

It is a feature of the game, and like I stated earlier, mostly just to help merchants with large fleet use spare turns to offset upkeep.
Anyone who operates or has operated 1000's of merchant ships, knows it really is not profitable as the OP is suggesting, but if you are trading with enough ships anyway, might as well use it, if you have spare turns and the cards.

My point is that the OP thought he figured out this strategy and thought it was an exploit, but instead of reporting it to a CJ to check and see
if it was acceptable games play or not, he assumed it was an exploit and started planning to try it, then suggested others try it.

I just don't see why you would make a post claiming you had found an exploit for players to try.
Perhaps the OP has a bunch of Forced Labor and Military service in his chest and was hoping this post would incite someone to try this out and drive sales up, but that's just pure speculation on my part.

[Grimrock Litless]

Ooh William that is a good idea for a topic. I do not think there is a formal complaint department..maybe it can be called Fenik’s Fine Whine..or Lamenting Leo’s..or Danik’s Gripe and Grouse. Although I would keep in UOH. General discussion is often more modded and then the usual gang of complainers will have more instances to be upbraided about.

Oh, seems all the usual button pushers are still around.

[William one eye]

Ooh William that is a good idea for a topic. I do not think there is a formal complaint department..maybe it can be called Fenik’s Fine Whine..or Lamenting Leo’s..or Danik’s Gripe and Grouse. Although I would keep in UOH. General discussion is often more modded and then the usual gang of complainers will have more instances to be upbraided about.

Oh, seems all the usual button pushers are still around.

[Lil Lola]

Who me? You’re giving me all the credit? You seem to have been the button pusher here Got an awful lot of responses on your controversial topic don’t you think? A suggestion to try and trap some unwitting sucker to try and make money with a possible exploit of the game which may or may not be illegal gameplay hoping someone will rat on the poor fool to CJ because you are to chicken sh*t to do so yourself? Is that correct?