Look at all the cool stuff that is included with Issue 26 Page 5.
Concerned with folks quitting over no longer being able to abuse an exploit = not much
An email wipe alone would have a major impact on the biggest hoarders.
A market wipe I guess would have more far reaching impacts. I'm not positive, but I may have significant amounts in bids that would have no where to refund since the characters are capped already.
You're correct, but I'm wondering how many farmers used their extra influence to buy packs then sell the IOs. It could very well be a statistically irrelevant number.
The packs contained a reward which could be used in the exploit. There will likely be a bit of a drop.
Outside of that, no real impact. Many farming folks could be bothered to travel to mission doors much less sell anything other than very high value drops.
Which 'fix' to announce today?
Choose wisely.
AE AFK Farming or Base Portal Exploit
..the forums might explode if we do both at the same time.
Give us back the old Energy Transfer already!
Taking the Hamidon Raid and simply changing up the Mitochondria weaknesses and providing some taunt resistance to the core would shoot the difficulty way up. (for a bit)
Having folks need to pay attention could be all that's needed to increase difficulty.
Skewing the game for those pushing the envelope or taking advantage of the game mechanics.. it's just never going to be the spot the game is balanced around. Sorry.
Should there be challenges for those same player, sure.
Revisiting incentive: With the number of requests to increase difficulty, something like hard mode may be it's own incentive.
Besides, if there were more enemies the rewards would reflect that. If there was an endless stream of them, the rewards would reflect that.