Originally posted by tonyg
I've mentioned how buggy II's online system to my husband who, despite his physical resemblance to a Neanderthal (see the Neanderthal thread), is a very accomplished computer programmer and brilliant all-around engineer. His theory is that II's trade system is probably a complete kludge, with additions being made to it over the years and no one really knowing anymore how it works. He thinks II probably finds it too daunting and expensive to just throw it out and start from scratch. When you get patched-together systems like that, even a small change can cause all sorts of inconsistent results.
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