Xena, I have re-read the dev blog and there is no mention of them saying what you suggested. Please post where you found it. In the meanwhile, here is the excerpt:

We considered many options on how we should go about this, but in the end we opted for counting the robots that were used in these operations, checked the actual insurance payouts they received for blowing them up, and then calculated the real average market prices that the payouts should have been in the first place. The difference of these two values is the falsely gained money, their "profit". This is what we had to take away.

Ps. No, I really dislike "m2s and others" for blowing up my bots. Wasn't a typo

I think people are missing the point in Lupus's posts and interjecting personal emotion into the discussion. I agree that the industrial scale of the operation was way out of hand, and wrong.

The fact is that the devs take away all of the profit from he "insurance exploits". See original post on devblog about their math. The point Lupus was trying to make was that he blew up Corp insured bots, profit which goes to the Corp. This was bad, yes, but the Corp got their money taken away. But on top of that, Lupus's own money was taken away. This is double penalty and it no longer follows the penalty rules set by devs after the fact without informing anybody.

I am axe and I dislike m2s and others. But please keep the discussion relevant to the issues at hand and not your own personal views of each other's tags. This discussion is really important in analyzing actions of BOTH players and devs.

Overall, I feel that it was bad PR to publicly name corps or individuals. The dev's/GM's should have WARNED players that it was illegal, and privately penalize those who continue to do so. I have no bad apple against the dev's for taking my money; I did it a few times and lost 200k nic. It's considered illegal now and i'm fine with them taking the money. I just want to be warned next time i'm doing something illegal that is not known to be illegal.

End of rant.

I think everyone deserves to know that, at this point in time, is kernel buying/selling to NPC for profit is considered exploiting. Devs please respond now, I do not want to find out two to three months down the road. Thanks.

Since I am bored at work, I might as well continue and add more thoughts for you guys to consider.

I am sure that you guys have talked about player-made items and have no immediate plans for the near future. I would like to say that numerous T4 items are now being created. Other items will definitely come in the game in the future, but it seems like there are no strong "goals" for industry players. I am thinking that for those who concentrate solely on production, there should be an advantage (other than lower costs) over those who contribute fewer points and can produce the same thing. Perhaps branded items with slight stat improvements

Building on the "no strong goals" comment, perhaps there could be corporation goals. Recently, Allods added guild features where the guild can level up, and have access to different things. For the time being, I can only think of special insignia on the bot. A guild can level up by corporation members doing missions and earning reputation.

Over a long period of time, there could be slight increases in one or two stats which will give a slight advantage to members. Of course, gaining these stat improvements will take a long time (not something a hardcore group can grind in two weeks) and will be a big factor when opposing armies are equally matched. At the same time, a new corp facing an established corp could win if 1) assuming same army size 2) same skill level of players 3) same bots, they have better strategy. The idea is to improve so called "end game" by giving players a sense that it is a constant growth, not just in terms of extensions and NIC.

This idea isn't very well thought out, so other people feel free to criticize

p.s. sorry for posting so much in a row