Ship & Station Duplication for Unlimited Ore, Credits, turrets, mods, and Cargo

[NoSvOrAx]

Hi Everyone,

 

Found a horrible exploit on the current stable branch playing on Rusty's US1 CorePvP.

 

Found a station named Bob, put a 125 million Avorion Hyperspace Core block on it and transfer it to your alliance.

 

Found another station named Bob, and put a 125 Million Avorion Hyperspace Core block on it and transfer it to your alliance.

 

Now in the sector you have 3 Stations, 2 named Bob, and 1 named Bob 0.  However in the alliance ships tab, you'll only see Bob and Bob 0.

 

Delete the second Bob and Bob 0 and delete the block from the first Bob.  Now there is 375 million Avorion in the alliance vault, plus an extra like 20 billion credits.

 

Check the alliance ships list and you will see no Bobs listed.  Enter the first Bob and suddenly it's back on the alliance ship list and you are 125 million Avorion & 20 Billion credits richer and still have your first station.

 

It also duplicates the cargo contents.

 

Works on every station I've tried, fuel, steel, scrap, & conductor.

 

I figure it has to do with not being able to rename an alliance station.

 

Figured this needed to be fixed.

 

Regards,

 

NoSvOrAx

 

Update:

 

This works on ships too, and duplicates mods and turrets.  We haven't tried it yet, but it probably does fighters too.

[BlackAce21]

Does this only apply to alliance ships? Would like to temp patch this via server script if I can on our server before someone gets any bright ideas =\

[Devious]

This can't be patched, the transfer of ships to alliance and alliances in general are hardcoded.

[SivCorp]

Well this will wreck the economy very quickly....  >:(

[Devious]

I have reported it to Koonschi directly so hopefully it will be fixed soon.

[DracoNB]

I also found a similar issue where the blueprints between the two items are linked, so if you change one it will say the other ship is "broken" and needs to be repaired. Repairing it will change the layout to the other ship.

[The Legacy]

Wow, and I thought -my- exploit was bad. O.O