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Steve Thomas
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Sebiestor Tribe
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Posted - 2011.05.28 21:45:00 -
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Edited by: Steve Thomas on 28/05/2011 21:48:48
Akita, you obviously dont know how many people it takes to maintain the accounts of even a small savings and loan. and on top of that they have to bring in outside Auditors all the time just to double check there work.
Now you want a company that has a history of trouble properly accounting for mats in industrial processes due to all of the Bookkeeping shortcuts that they take that would never muster with any real world standardised accounting bookkeeping or inventory system. . .to create a working stock exchange. . . .
Given the scale of what goes on every hour of every day in this game I would say at a minimum you would need a full 7 man Accounting system development team about a year TO FIX THE CURRENT SYSTEM.
thats before they could actualy go in and start codework to impliment any real world based stockmarket, comidity market and so on.
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If your too paranoid to play EvE. . .
...then your not paranoid enough to play EvE
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Steve Thomas
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Posted - 2011.05.29 04:16:00 -
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Edited by: Steve Thomas on 29/05/2011 04:18:07
ok from what I remember from previous discutions with developers
Plex has a Unique ID number that is permient for it from the instant of creation to the instant it is consumed. they also know how said plex was payed for.
BPOs also are unique from the instant they can no longer be restacked as individual units
Ships and modules have a Uniqe ID number from the insant they are assembled or instaled untill the instant they are removed from gameplay by distruction or repackaged.
basicaly they can know that your ship used to be a ship and not a package, and they know which stack of otherwise identical pacages your ship goes into when its repackaged and stacked, but beyond that point the system no longer knows nore cares which one was your ship(IE if you had a Kestral, repackaged it, restacked it into a lot of 10,000 othe Kessies, the system will not be able to tell you wich one was your ship, however they can tell you that you put it in the stack of 10,001 other kesstrals at station X of moon Y of planet Z which you reprocessed on April 2 2010 because you could not sell them.
Each individual stack of ore or ammo or modules or whatever has its own Unique ID, but not each and every item in said stack. Bascialy the ID is tied to what is basicaly a counter,
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If your too paranoid to play EvE. . .
...then your not paranoid enough to play EvE
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Steve Thomas
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Posted - 2011.05.29 19:39:00 -
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On two diferent occasions they have stated that they knew Exactly how each plex was payed for. once recently related to the Plex for Good:Japan and previously when they indicated that they could track a plex that was created from a stolen CC or Debt account number to its final user.
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Will the money be paid to the charity in dollars or Euros?
PLEX purchased in Euros will be donated in US dollars, but the amount will equal the original Euro value.
Does CCP profit if I buy PLEX in euros which is then donated and converted to a dollar value?
PLEX purchased in euros will be donated for the full amount. CCP will absorb any VAT charges incurred so that the charity receives the full amount donated by players.
http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/PLEX_for_GOOD#Will_the_money_be_paid_to_the_charity_in_dollars_or_Euros.3F
Unless they ment something completly diferent, they aparently convert the value of each "Europlex" to the then current USD value and record that at the point/time of purchase
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If your too paranoid to play EvE. . .
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Steve Thomas
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Posted - 2011.05.30 18:42:00 -
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Edited by: Steve Thomas on 30/05/2011 18:43:48
ok why would the people who are spending ISK to play be happy about this change?
the way I see it you will have the following groups of players.
A) buy a plex from CCP (or convert a gtc), toss it into the arrrum shreader and buy what they want for themselves
A1) a subset of this will be using the second plex to buy another month of game time or just drop it in ye auld cargo bay and forget about it.
A2) a second subset of this group will sell off the surplus plex for ISK, meaning that theres a few more avalible in the supply side and helping slightly push prices down
B)people who buy Plex with ISK, thoes get dumped into the Arrum shreader and disapear, meaning that theres fewer plex avalible, so the price will go up drawing more RMT money to plex instead, driving up the price of plex, and priceing out some of the people who use plex to pay for 1 or more accounts, and causing others to spend more time not playing the game and grinding to play the game.
Overall I suspect that for every 3 plex CCP gets from people who buy plex with isk they will end up loosing 2 plex from people who will not be able or willing to pay the bump up in plex price.*
but that all depends on how many people are like me and who buy a plex with Cash from CCP for the express purpose of getting Arrum and how many will bascialy spend ISK to get plex.
*Ie I suspect that rougly 80% of the Plex converted to Arrum will be Ingame plex that already exists in the marketplace, not Plex that is bought specificaly to be turned into goldrum
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If your too paranoid to play EvE. . .
...then your not paranoid enough to play EvE
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