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I dont feel there are enough ways to lose my hard earned ISK. I would like to see a casino-type station or two out in lowsec... where there would be an option for capsuleers to play poker, or whatver, maybe bet on PVP fights in an arena style station... no OGB's, ect. I know there are some websites that you can play this kinda stuff on... but Id like to see it incorporated in game...

Thanks!

Yes, I was pretty sure I wasnt the first one to think of it. TBH, walking in stations doesn't interest me, but playin a few rounds of poker while I wait that horrible ONE MORE HOUR for the skill im training to finish up does! Just trying to do my part to expand the game content

Im really surprised that CCP hasn't done this of their own volition... just think of the PLEX sales they would make...

You've read my mind. This would be one of the most astonishing additions to EVE universe. I would love to see some space Las Vegas in nulsec npc security zone where decent security maintained by some shady crime syndicate and constant struggle for control over the money flows between players' corporations won't cease even for day. Where regular gambling competiotions with breathtaking prizes are held and hundreds of pro gamblers and regular adrenaline addicts flocking from all over the galaxy. Or some undegroud (may be even player-controlled, like POSes of sort?) gambling houses in hisecs, in hidden DED-space pockets, regulary raided by local militia forces for bountys which autoset on anyone participating in gambling here.
What for actual games to be played there, I don't really know how to deal with it. I would like to see something well tested with time, like poker, mahjong, roulette, gambling machines, but that can contradict with the game's backstory.

I suggested this as a way to 'fix' low-sec.

Have gambling and pleasure hubs, but only in low-sec space. Why only in low-sec? Well for one thing high-security space isn't meant to be too comfortable. Amarr is a theocratic Feudal state, Caldari is a Fascist corptocracy, and so on. It's a nice, 'safe' nest to start out in, but there should be an incentive to venture further into more dangerous areas. I don't see any of the high sec governments being tolerant of the practice of gambling.

Low sec should have the feel of the 'frontier', a kind of step away from the safe and settled worlds of the East and into the fortunes of the wild, wild west. Frontier 'saloons' with gambling, prostitution, drinking, etc. would reflect that element of danger and adventure, like Moe Eisley's bar in Star Wars.

Gambling is what brought people into the deserts of Nevada, and it was the Mafia that did it. Gambling is just the sort of thing to bring more people into low-sec as well. After all, it's not as though pirates would only be interested in killing each other or shooting anything that moves, they would be living in low-sec for a reason. Freedom, ideological differences, lifestyle choices, and of course economic opportunities.

As someone has already pointed out, there are already lots of off site gambling sites which use ISK and are EVE themed. CCP is really missing out on some additional revenue and opportunity here, as well as a potential 'ISK sink' to combat the inflation problem.