Trust in EVE

It's kinda odd how EVE seems to create a world where no one can be trusted, and no great progress can be achieved without trust. As a result, there is this competing dichotomy of needing to trust, and not being able to. I wonder how often peoples trust is rewarded, and how often it is not. It would be interesting to see the numbers.

Second Life (and money)

I haven't actually spent much time in Second Life, but when I first heard of it 10 months ago, I decided to try a gamble. I signed up for a full year subscription for 72 USD. Selling my Linden Allowance, I have thus far, gotten my US balance up to 62 USD, and expect it to reach 80 by the time the next payment is due.

I plan to keep the account as long as it can pay for itself, and hope that someday, I can make some real money off of it (and not just 10 USD a year).

EVE is harsh

I guess a part of enjoying eve, is learning to love a game that will bite your hand off when you try to feed it. It's not the sort of game for safe fun, but instead more like a constant high stakes gamble. No one can ever truly be trusted, and you are never truly safe. Everytime you leave the station, someone could kill you. Everytime you open a trade, someone could scam you. And everytime you talk with someone, they could lie to you.

Try not to ever fly with more than you can afford to lose.

Another link

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=922456 (the upper left of the page will have a link to download the whole paper)

Maybe someday, all people will be able to enjoy their work, as they do their play, or be as productive at play as they are at work.

Perhaps, the ultimate goal of all gamers, is to get in the game, what they cannot in life.
Perhaps the ultimate game, is the one that is as much like real life as possible, while allowing (and in fact, making it easier) for people to succeed (meet the needs they don't get met elsewhere).

Care

When you say that it is none of your buisness, you are telling people that you don't care. If you really cared, it would become your buisness, because any event affects all who care.