Public Market Pricing Exploit

[Shoot]

So I managed to find a way around the coded in price limitations in the public market in Turbo (not sure if possible in regular too).

In the area where you can update your selling prices on listings you have up, you can insert math symbols (such as * for multiplication and / for division) when updating the price to bypass the limits. It seems as long as the first number before any operators is valid (i.e. falls into the range normally allowed), you can add whatever mathematical operations after that and it will accept the final value of those operations as the new price.

Examples:
Rats at 500*500 = $250,000 new price
Rats at 500*0 = $0 new price
Rats at 500/500 = $1 new price
Rats at 500*500*500*500 = $4,294,967,295 (maximum value allowed by the database for the price field)

Since the 500 before the operator in each case was a valid price for rats, the code allowed it. At least thats what it appears to be.

[Shadow]

Thanks for bringing it to our attention. I will try to fix it when I have time. For now, setting prices outside the usual ranges is not allowed. Maybe windy can take a crack at it if he has some time?

I'll give everyone 24 hours to bring prices below the allowed limits, after that I'll do it myself (if I have to do it myself, I'm just going to sell the relevent stack to merceneries, so it's in your best interest to fix it yourself), and if it keeps up after that I'll disable people.

[Shoot]

No idea what the fee is for fixing the price on a 4 billion dollar rat to an allowable price, since it keeps telling me i dont have enough money to change it.

I'll merc mine when the option becomes available (check box grayed out atm), unless somebody wants my robo rat 5000 with laser eyes (thanks Death for that suggestion :P) for the low price of 4.2 billion dollars. (I'm joking, don't be silly and buy it)

[Shadow]

There, fixed via the DB. Hopefully it didn't mess anything up.

From now on, any prices set that way will result in disabling.

[Ian2424]

No Shoot, noooooo! Why did you tell him this!?

[Shadow]

As if it wasn't obvious or something ^_^

You know that intentionally exploiting a bug without reporting it gets you disabled, right?

[Ian2424]

Yeah, I know. Too bad I didn't know this before....

[Shadow]

Why?

[Ian2424]

Um, no reason... I would just, ummm, tell you about it.

[Drakus]

How long do you get disabled for?

[Shadow]

til the end of the round

[Drakus]

Is there any way a disable can be lifted before the end of the round?

[Shadow]

It's possible technically, but if you use the price exploit it had to have been intentional so I can't think of a reason it would.

[Shadow]

UPDATE:

I believe I have fixed this exploit - if you notice any problems with the public market please let me know.

Apparently there is another exploit available as well, as someone used it to gain 50 trillion dollars. I don't yet know how it was done, but I will fix it as soon as I do.

[Ian2424]

Is that why there's nothing on the market?