0.5 Exploitation

croz · **on:** October 28, 2007, 11:39:17 pm

Sorry if this has been discussed before. I tried searching for 0.5 but that's not really an adequate query string.

Could someone explain to me what the 0.5 exploitation (bug?) is all about? I understand that we're restricted to 2 0.5 routes but is that per airline, airplane, city, or what? Why are people motivated to create 0.5 routes and why is it discouraged?

Thanks!

croz

dktc · **Reply #1 on:** October 28, 2007, 11:40:09 pm

2 0.5 per city pair.

2 0.5 earn you more than 1 1.

It is a known "cheat".

croz · **Reply #2 on:** October 28, 2007, 11:50:37 pm

So we're not allowed to have more than 2 0.5s per city pair?

This sounds like this is a bug in the algorithm, not a cheat. Wouldn't it be easier to tweak the way that profits are calculated than to create a task force to enforce this exploitation?

dktc · **Reply #3 on:** October 29, 2007, 12:08:16 am

Sorry... but this has been discussed before. This has been discussed so much that I stopped following the discussion

You don't even need to search for it. Just look through the first couple of pages of General Chat and Suggestions and you will find several topics about this.