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Anna Weston
Gallente
Holdings Inc
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Posted - 2010.07.20 13:56:00 -
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Earlier this year I dabbled with Global Agenda (a fun little MMOFPS if you haven't come across it) and the way they were set up each player could only have one account to which all their characters were linked. This was explained as a design decision explicitly aimed at ensuring that players cared about their reputations; we would have no access to anonymous alts for doing our dirty work (though as GA isn't at all sandboxy, there's not much opportunity for dirty work except on the forums).
I'm curious as to how this would affect EVE. If every character we owned could be linked to every other you can't help thinking that it would be much easier to genuinely hold people accountable for their actions.
I'm also wondering if there's room in EVE for some kind of "reputation broking" service, something like a cross between a credit reference agency and the Better Business Bureau. I've only got a vague idea what it would look like at the moment but it would be an interesting experiment.
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Anna Weston
Gallente
Holdings Inc
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Posted - 2010.07.20 15:00:00 -
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 Originally by: Breaker77
How does a company confirm that?
2 different e-mail addresses: check
2 different credit cards: check
2 different IP addresses: check
2 different RL names and addresses: easy to have a friend, relative, ect setup which can go along with the first 3 items I mentioned.
Now you have 2 accounts that are separate and as long as no one runs their mouth, they are played by the same player.
And two or three years after you've done all that work you slip up and start using the same e-mail/password/IP for both accounts. BAM! automatic EULA violation, bye-bye to all your training and assets. It's a high-risk as well as high-effort approach!
Anyhow, how many broadband connections do you have at your house? I think most of us would find it non-trivial to have to run EVE accounts from separate IPs!
Meanwhile, back to my actual question.
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Anna Weston
Gallente
Holdings Inc
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Posted - 2010.07.21 11:02:00 -
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Originally by: Syds Sinclair
..So a bank would benefit the owner(s) (BOD). Tell me how it would benefit the depositors. 3% safe (lol ya rite) a month interest? Nothing else? Oh ok, like I said before, banks in Eve are a novelty that benefit only:
Role players who like to pretend they are financially mature, and deposit their excess isk into a safe (lol ya rite) venture.
Role players who like to be the chief of an online "omglolbanking service."
There is no reason for a bank in Eve. Anyone scammed post EBANK deserves to lose their isk.
Nonsense. The question of whether EVE needs banks has already been asked and definitely answered by the marketplace. Trillions of ISK in deposits and loans don't lie.
Passive income is the Killer App, everyone wants it. If someone could construct a bank that looked plausibly stable and reliable then potential depositors would be throwing their money at it just as fast as they did for the previous attempts. And the continuing demand for loans is clearly indicated by the appearance of a new [BOND] thread on this forum nearly every day.
Yes of course roleplaying is an element, but then we're all roleplayers here. I've lost more money in bank failures than to any other cause in EVE (despite being a fan of stupid cap ship losses) because of the coolness factor undermining my judgement of risk. But that doesn't change the fact that the demand is clearly there; the question is whether it's possible to meet that demand given the current structure of EVE.
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Anna Weston
Gallente
Holdings Inc
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Posted - 2010.07.21 11:11:00 -
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Originally by: Hexxx
Guys, I think we can all imagine how to circumnavigate various parts of the EULA, but how about we NOT discuss it in my thread? 
To be fair, we were discussing how to circumnavigate a future hypothetical EULA, not the current one!
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Anna Weston
Gallente
Holdings Inc
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Posted - 2010.07.22 10:54:00 -
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Originally by: Syds Sinclair
..ITT: I wanna be a e-financial manager. Waaa.
Disclaimer: Waaa added for effect.
ITP: I can't construct a worthwhile argument, all I have left is a routine troll built from tired old memes.
Fake edit: Waaaaaa
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Anna Weston
Gallente
Holdings Inc
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Posted - 2010.07.24 23:22:00 -
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That's not really a bank, more like a T2 production IPO. Nothing wrong with it as a proposal for a secure sounding investment (I wonder what the returns would be like?) But it's not a bank.
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