Feather Trading - sudden peacock feather glut?

gcewing on 2009/09/14 05:23

Someone seems to have slaughtered an extremely large number of peacocks in LaoHu Central...

refresh. At LaoHu Central you can buy/sell these feathers:

Feather Typemarket's stockyour inventoryPrice/feather
peacock 1999999999997945386 0 63 buy or sell
Amazon 91 74 18 buy or sell
honey eater 223 0 494 buy or sell
twelve-corded paradise bird 34 0 2110 buy or sell
Western Parotia 14 0 1773 buy or sell
Mandarin Duck 79 0 47 buy or sell
Eagle 27 0 318 buy or sell

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nitrofurano on 2009/09/14 10:26:

some bot? =O

gcewing on 2009/09/14 11:23:

Since players can't create feathers as far as I know, I don't see how a bot could cause this to happen.

I think it may be a display glitch -- it seems to come and go.

Pig on 2009/09/15 02:11:

It certainly wasn't my bot since it wasn't even at Central at the time. Did someone successfully forge an admin packet? It looks like its 2*10^something. Does this constant appear anywhere? This is a rather annoying bug and one which could benefit specific players if it could be generated at will.

alia on 2009/09/15 02:32:

Trivial exploit I'm afraid.

gcewing on 2009/09/15 04:21:

You mean you've found a way of making it happen?

gcewing on 2009/09/15 10:53:

We're getting negative numbers of feathers now, too!
You are at LaoHu Central

Status: You have 1000 coins.

refresh. At LaoHu Central you can buy/sell these feathers:

Feather Typemarket's stockyour inventoryPrice/feather
peacock 57 0 43 buy or sell
Amazon -45634 0 28 buy or sell
honey eater 19 0 572 buy or sell
twelve-corded paradise bird 476 0 1528 buy or sell
Western Parotia 11 0 2421 buy or sell
Mandarin Duck 3 0 48 buy or sell
Eagle 0 0 323 buy or sell

jtrain on 2009/09/15 10:57:

greg: Have you tried buying or selling a negative amount of feathers?

gcewing on 2009/09/15 11:23:

(Tries an experiment)

Ah. Well. That explains a few things. :-)

I guess the challenge now is to get to the top of the chart without cheating...

RB[0] on 2009/09/15 15:05:

Well, this is weird, with the glut of feathers the prices are all out of whack, you can literally double your money in about 5 minutes right now... O.o

So you can sell negative numbers? Mwuahaha lol

You know, I think I've gotta boost the score of this game, I've never played a pyweek game so much, nor seen one actually produce as much coding (with you bot makers, speaking of which, should make one I think...) or interest.

This is hilarious XD

RB[0] on 2009/09/15 15:06:

Umm, oops, tried buying Amazon feathers and it converted to negative max, so now I have negative Amazon feathers LMAO

gcewing on 2009/09/15 23:59:

Yes, you can create negative market stock, negative inventory, and/or negative coins. About the only thing you can't do is make the prices go negative... or at least I haven't found a way yet. :-)

I notice that the pig-bot is up to about 20 billion in net worth. If this weren't in Python I would be expecting something to overflow soon... hmmm, if the state is being stored in a database of some kind, maybe it will...