Apparently it's OK with MA for planet partners to create an avatar (DAmanager) then, using inside information.. go global on rare items???
Really??
DAMgr is not a PP, but rather endorsed by RT (according to his website, but not sure if that means he's NDS staff), and I think someone mentioned that he was actually looting the ES500's on his own LA, so that makes it even more curious as to why an LA owner (if this is the case) has information about this incident to the point that he tells the community not to make assumptions, but wait for his press release that will explain everything.
If he's an LA owner with information, then you know that NDS had knowledge, and my question would be ... why is an LA owner (or this person at any level) involved with something like this that certainly gave him inside information (can't assume anything else) and personal gain (we already know this for a fact). Which leads me to also believe that the bank incident with putting the ES500 value at -0- was intentional as well based on inside information (I'm just trying to make sense of 2 + 2 here).
Either way you look at this (and from my own personal interaction with him last year), whether he's NDS staff, just endorsed as a result of what he brings to the RT environment, or regular player, he was privileged and benefited from it, period, and ... if MA had anything intentional to do with this (other than negligence in checking content before the release), then IMO it makes it worse. Why would MA intentionally make the decision to drop these ES500's and in such abundance knowing it would have such an impact on the market and piss off a lot of people? I'm thinking they wouldn't, right? ... or am I just naive about this maneuver. Do you really think that it was just a coincidence that the rare ES500 ended up being a mistake item in this incident?
You just don't take an extremely rare item that used to be crafted years ago and suddenly drop craploads of them on another planet, especially when players paid thousands of PED for them the week or so before. I also don't think there is merit in allowing rare minerals from one planet to drop easily from mobs or otherwise on other planets. None of this makes any sense, other than being disruptive. Common finds across planets like crude and lyst are one thing, but blood moss and pyrite easily found and seemingly more plentiful on two other planets ... oh, and
not in lootable PvP?
I don't understand why all of this is being allowed, because it just seems (to me anyway) that it is rather disruptive to Calypso as a planet. Shouldn't each planet have their own self-contained environment with items and resources that don't disrupt another planet? Common stuff, fine, but rare items and resources easily obtained that had been set up on another planet as challenging and driving their market in a certain direction? Am I just not looking at this right? It's going to be interesting to see how future planets set up their environments.
Something just doesn't fit here, and I hope we eventually find out what's going on.
... I forgot it was Friday, so ... now you know. 
