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So the fluctuations sould be perception based. The RMTers would be responsible fpr inflation only from increasing the money supply but not necessarily supply in the market. I;m not sure how drops work in EVE, but an increase in rare drops would be a natural side effect of farming in-game money.

Economics aside, I'd be very, very interested in what kinds of "behaviors" they observed to warrant the bans and how they distinguished between temp bans for some accoutns and perma-bans for others.

I'm really impressed with the EVE team's efforts at transparency in this. I can think of several other development teams that have carried out similarly heavy handed management programs without making a similar effort at presenting the data to their player base(s).

except his name.

I'm sure it would go as smoothly here as the post-AE, anti-PL actions did.

Snark aside, there's a bunch of interesting stuff in that article. Most notably that it didn;t affect the market-at-large in any meaningful way. In fact, it seems like after a temporary fluctuation--a drop in listed items and a short *increase* in price floowed by a sharp, one-day drop--the market returned to well within 10% of hte pre-ban average. (the article claims 10% drop, buthte graph shows otherwise). What *is* different is market volatility, which to me means that banning RMT accounts better enables market flippers.

wow. that is one seriously pretty SG page.

petition sent

if you're a ducks fan, footbal is way more violent and awesome than CoH...


ETA: YAY! Preloading i16!

Boo. No PAX for me; no dragon con, either. Only three weddings, 18 grad hours, and a conference presentation for ba this fall.

Have fun though; I hear it's a blast.

How do you solve a problem like helllsiiiimiiannn? How do you hold a [moonbeam] in your haaand?

This is the most interesting statement I've read in months.

nuh-uh

PIs? Like Magnum and Sam Spade? Remington Steele? You know he wasn;t really a PI; it was the chick--Laura, I think... I mean, it's fine if you're into that, but I wanted you to know beforehand what was up...

NO U R!

(I was gonna link to that thread, but a few people already have.)

doubleuteeeff?

Clear proof Enri sold his account.

Also: DLtBDYD.

Also the same as Tachyon Tanks in Dark Reign. Several People have commented before about hearing the Atlas Park music (the tune that plays when you first load in on a new character) in commercials, and a few others have mentioned hearing the police drone chatter om various places. They're from some public doimain SFX library, like you said.

However, had Cryptic developed them for CoH, they would no longer own them since Crytpic sold the CoX IP a few years back. It'll be interesting to see if NCSoft feels the similarities to be striking. I wonder why NC didn't negotiate for a non-compete clause.

but being anonymously rude gives you something to do when you're "done"...

you heard it here first, folks.

^_^ anything for hellsimian

You aren't, but that HellSimian guy is a total bad***.

Not *that* might be the key: A balls out crazy ****** superteam. all NRG and storm and single target damage and just plain stupid-crazy chaos. Ahhhh, the ideas are starting to materialize...

It's plural; clearly he means both.