With the entire universe being hosted on a single server, most players will be affected by the sudden lack of supply for their incredible demand, and speculators and profiteers are scrambling to make their fortunes. While the actual depth of the conspiracy will likely remain a mystery even after official investigations are completed, the materials being amassed were a vital component in a fairly large part of EVE's market infrastructure. Of course, the profound impact that the discovery and correction of this exploit is having on EVE's player-run economy is staggering. The player base hasn't forgotten about the last time unfair advantages went "unnoticed" by the game developers, and are pointing accusatory fingers based on the net worth of the largest alliances. The response from the EVE community has been lively, to say the least.
His petitions ignored, the poster claims to have spent the last 4 years essentially printing vast fortunes of in-game currency, and alleges that many major player-run alliances in the EVE universe were also in on the ploy. At a third-party discussion forum, an anonymous poster – supposedly one of the banned players – claims to have alerted game masters to the existence of the exploit as far back as 2004.