EVE General Discussion

You aren't getting an advantage over anyone else though. You paid real money to save time, that doesn't give you an advantage.

MY mistake. I didn't realize having 3 accounts isn't an advantage over my roommate who has neither time nor money to maintain more than one, ever. This isn't really stimulating anymore.

Good thing your roommate needs do neither to gain an advantage over you. He just needs to get 2 friends.

Paragraphs, are your friends.

Attempted manipulation? You mean answering the question, you posed? Which turns out not to be the question, you wanted answering? You mean that poor use of English? I recommend asking the correct question first, although I'm not sure Google will help you in that regard.

Also, I said that argument was ridiculous, just as yours was.
As an English native speaker, your reading and comprehension leaves a lot to be desired.

I already told you what the question was, you know what the purpose was, and you've used so many logical fallacies it's not worth picking them out now. HTFU

Using a different definition than everyone else and claiming you're correct because the definition that only you use fits your argument is some sort of fallacy.

Probably in the line of equivocation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy#Equivocation

I'm pretty sure time, as defined as being able to do things faster than other people, is considered an advantage.

Not if they don't have enough time.

A player who sits home in their mom's basment obviously has the advantage of time versus a player who works 40 hours and week and has to take their kids to after school activities.

The unemployed player has the advantage of time and therfore can earn more isk.

The employed player has the advantage of money and can trade the advantage of money for the advantage of time.

It can somewhat balance itself out, but if a player spent $10,000 on plex, they would have the advantage of about a years worth of time that is basically impossible for a player with one account to acheive in a year.

If that rich player kept buying $10,000 isk per year (well they'd deflate the plex market but) then there is no way for even a unemployed player to ever catch up.

On that note, wealth is obiously an advantage. You can fly better ships, trade in higher volumes, and get access to hi-end manufacturing that low income players will never acheive. You can use that wealth to hire mercs, supply your corp with better pvp ships, and throw gank ships at problems of yours.

Now if you say time equals wealth. If that is true than time is also an advantage because time is a scare resource.

Does that make sense?

If everyone in the game played the same exact hours then yeah, time would not be an advantage, but the truth of the matter is not everyone can play 80 hours a week.

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On a side note that I wanted to add, is that if a new player plex's their account from day one, they can buy implants and better ships to earn more isk faster than they would if they worked their way up to that point. Now that has the disadvantage of not learning the game, but in truth they'd have a wealth advantage over a new player who would have to spend all that time earning a lower rate of isk. Overall the wealthier plexer is at a perment higher advantage becaues even if the regular player catches up they still have lost the time advantage from those early earnings.

Its why startup businesses want capital to start out big instead of starting out small. Because the more time you spend at higher incomes, the more advantage you have in the market.

If you don't plex and can't play 80 hours a week, then the player who either plays 80 hours a week or spends thousands of dollars in plex has an isk advantage over you.

Now what I am arguing is that you can only play so many hours per week.

Even players who play 80 hours a week have to sleep.

Someone with enough money can in theory buy more isk through plex than a player who plays 80 hours a week can earn. That is an advantage because they can buy more time than can be actually be played by one person.

Not many people send thousands on plexes but it is possible if wealthy enough.

When you take in to consideration the amount of people that just give me all of their stuff... No, they don't have an isk advantage over me at all. Just because someone spends a lot of time or money on the game doesn't mean they have more isk.