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08 Sep 06
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Ah, that's the pros and cons, and perhaps the beauty, of 0.0 space. Having the government coming to impose law just ruin it the essence, paving the way for the masses.
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I'd say the exact opposite was true - good alliances have a strong sense of "virtual nationalism". Sometimes it gets a bit too linked to real nationalism, especially in the ongoing RA versus Coalition war. Sovreignty and unity are realised through common action in adversity; dispute management isn't all that well developed, but people who make trouble can be kicked out.
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Or, we may be. Again, if Eve is meant to be "The Old West" where no laws apply, and the only rule is caveat emptor... well then, to the victor go the spoils, keep your hand on your wallet, and only do biz with people you know well. If that's the case, bravo to Mr. Ponzi.
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So in this case, all the customers would have a good chance of recognising any of the Scammers ALTs as him, because he was a significant figure in their characters world. They could put out wanted posters which when seen by others would increase their likelyhood of spotting the scammers ALTs as him. In this was the players gain the power to self police that is currently denied them.
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In order to allow self governance there needs to be a way to trace back to a RL person
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CCP want EVE to be self governing, and I am sure that the playerbase would step up to the challenge if they were but given the one tool required to do it.
The means to identify people.
In the real world it is very hard to create a completely untraceable false identity. Nearly everything we do is recorded, or seen by someone, and with enough time, effort and luck, it is possible to trace just about any identity.
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The RW analogy applies. In a modern society it is impossible to verify everything yourself all the time. You need to trust institutions etc.
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there is no real need for game mechanics (like eve's PK-mails), the mechanic to rule this out is a social one. get friends and reliable business partners, stay away from big promises, or fail. some of us will learn social skills no sooner than at entering virtuality. at least.
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I have writen up some thoughts about this epiode here. My take is that the EIB came quite close to fraud and/or theft, and that it is only a matter of time before some such scheme lands its perpetrator in the defendant's chair in court.
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What's the difference between having a meta-game to scam people from outside the actual gameworld and using out-of-game scripts (bots, macros) or resources (RMT) to also advance? There's a troubling lack of "boundaries" of play, and maybe that's part of the appeal
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I think this is part of the "fair play" of Eve's open world, but I also think that what's disturbing about this is that this guy and other scammers use the out-of-game forums for their work.
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