Say hi to eve’s sisi server. The test server.
All items are on sale for cheap as hell. Like 100 isk or some low price. The code there to basically amkes sure market code works really. Its a test copy of the entire real server…with patches to test.
That dream ship setup you would never use in the real production server? Or costs the 600 billion in game money you will never have? you play with it here. Buy 10 of them even for giggles.
The premise of this is devs see the test server and want players “BIS” (eve…doesn’t have BIS as wow players define it) to actually test future patches out.
So…have at it. Be as uber as you want really for literally almost nothing.
This is how some balance changes died…in testing. players found the nice setup that got stupid dps. devs see the data and fix it while still in testing.
I found this system nice. vice blizzards approach which can have testing run players not top geared the whole time. and this is how you get knee jerk balance patches in live.
the gear combo that broke the math was never RNG’d out in testing. That fun gets found in live server.