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Alara IonStorm
#1 - 2011-11-28 15:30:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Alara IonStorm
http://tinyurl.com/c9t9odg

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#2. Vaporizing One Thousand Real Dollars (EVE)

Crowd Control Productions (CCP) infamously live up to their name with EVE Online, a spacefaring game where people pay to plug into a computer to pretend to work for simulated corporations. You could say they have a dedicated fanbase, but only because clicking on the player agreement means it's legally not slavery.

In an act of diabolical genius CCP created their own currency without all the problems of being declared a rogue state or arrested by the Icelandic Ministry of the Interior. They set up PLEX, Pilot Licence EXtensions, where you can convert fake game money into 30 days of extra playing time. With a cash value of $15. So now players can work in the game to be allowed to continue to work in the game. It's the closest humanity has come to the Matrix.

They invented their own world and cash currency to use there -- there are drug lords with less control over their customers. And if you think this was CCP's full evil plan, they haven't even started stroking their fluffy white cat yet. The diabolical **** move was to introduce PLEX as in-game items, meaning you could trade it and carry a cargo of real money through a universe of players out to murder you. When you destroy a ship there's a chance its cargo will turn up in the wreckage loot, and note the evil eighth word in that sentence.

Players "slickdog" and "Viktor Vegas" found a lone cargo hauler with carrying 74 PLEX, over $1,100, and promptly blew the **** out of it. And every single one of the dollars. Not one PLEX survived. Over a grand was electronically vaporized, because that grand had already been paid to CCP who professionally don't give a **** what happens to money after that. They've set up a system where they make money when other people destroy it, and you can't even Occupy Jita because you'd have to pay them for the privilege.

Finally written by someone who knows EVE.

I luv this game.
Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2011-11-28 15:44:47 UTC
**** yeah \o\

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Lithalnas
Dirt 'n' Glitter
Local Is Primary
#3 - 2011-11-28 17:37:20 UTC
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CCP who professionally don't give a ****


that sounds about right

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Karl Planck
Perkone
Caldari State
#4 - 2011-11-28 17:44:07 UTC
lol, bittervet detected.

Ironically, this didn't used to happen, but the community begged to be able to transport the plexes.

and btw, who carries 74 plexes? for what purpose?

I has all the eve inactivity
Alpheias
Tactical Farmers.
Pandemic Horde
#5 - 2011-11-28 23:32:16 UTC
Karl Planck wrote:


and btw, who carries 74 plexes? for what purpose?


Someone that wants a reason to kill himself? To be remembered as the guy that carried 74 plex in hauler that went poof-poof?

Agent of Chaos, Sower of Discord.

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Shivus Tao
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2011-11-28 23:37:14 UTC
Anyone who carries a grand in plexes in anything but a covops, blockade runner, or cloaky nullified T3 deserves to lose far more than just that money.
Liam Mirren
#7 - 2011-11-29 00:19:02 UTC
Shivus Tao wrote:
Anyone who carries a grand in plexes in anything but a covops, blockade runner, or cloaky nullified T3 deserves to lose far more than just that money.

Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
#8 - 2011-11-29 00:53:27 UTC
Alara IonStorm wrote:
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Marz Ghola
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2011-11-30 03:03:52 UTC
Karl Planck wrote:
lol, bittervet detected.

Ironically, this didn't used to happen, but the community begged to be able to transport the plexes.

and btw, who carries 74 plexes? for what purpose?


iirc it was a large alliance running plex out to null. don't know if that had any truth to it though. good riddance imo