DaviddesJ
Deity
Calavente said:yes ! exploiting the game is using a loophole/a misprogramming in the game. But when the loophole plays agains you in normal time and you find something to attempt to do it right what will you do ?
The fact that the AIs won't give you a bazillion gold each, for all of your resources, without being manipulated to do so, doesn't make you some kind of victim. It's a good thing that they don't overpay so much, and it's certainly bad for the game for players to be able to manipulate it, whether or not you think it's an "exploit".
Often it's paying large amounts for resources that do it no good at all. Or it's paying for a resource that it's got in its own territory but hasn't bothered to hook up. To feel like a victim because it's paying you a lot for your unused resources that don't help it, but it isn't paying you as much as you would like, strikes me as ludicrous.