Sadly some of the devs were behind some of the exploitation
there was an exploit where you could put a full stack of dmg mods on a single slot
there was another exploit where every hit would be wrecking something to do with the games calculations being funky.
then there were the gate camps where mo0 would place thousands of jet cans so as you were entering the grid your game would either crash or completely freeze trying to load the grid and you would be dead before you could do anything about it.
then there was the drone exploit where drones would one shot people.
wasnt there an exploit where you could control more drones than you were supposed to be able to as well because of the domi bonus at the time.
and then there were the times we saw some really weird things happening like that time a GM gave someone a jovian weapon or whatever it was (I think technically the GM got blown up?)
Then there were the t2 bpo lottery being rigged by a dev who didnt get sacked because he said sorry (lol seriously wtf he didn't get sacked.....)
Then there was band of brothers aka BOB who were able to destroy fleets that were sitting inside POS bubbles and I'm not talking the "warp through a pos" knock someone out trick.
they literally could shoot ships sitting inside a pos shield theres a really bad quality video of it on youtube somewhere from when I was in curse alliance and we were fighting BOB.
how much other help do you think BOB had that we never found out abbout? it is to far fetched to assume they had GM's scouting for them etc? or sent info from eve mails the devs looked at.
lets face it almost every god damn eve dev was in BOB and they cheated as hell, no other game company would survive that
BTW mo0 cheated so much the devs had to get concord battleships to break one of their gate camps when they were killing thousands of noobies per day.
btw there were times when you could farm concord for some really interesting stuff, before they made it an exploit to survive and escape concord.
also I'm not convinced harvester mining drones were an accident, they used to drop in piles of thousands at a time
BTW there are lots of infinite run copies in the game unless they changed them, copies used to be the same as originals accept you couldnt research them
