Bad Harlequin
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Posted - 2003.08.04 18:02:00 -
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Edited by: Bad Harlequin on 04/08/2003 18:06:03
morkt is calling someone else a drama queen.
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btw...it's called buying on margin.
it's done all the time.
irl, you make a ton or lose your shirt. Often, you make a ton AND lose your shirt after 'letting it ride' too long or getting greedy.
the 'genuine real estate moguls buy my books on tape' people you see on TV are, when not totally bogus, people who knew when to quit. Buying stuff with other people's money makes quite a profit if you can get away with it =8).
I hate to burst all your bubbles, but most posters, like the  guy - nice contribution to the discussion there dude - seem more intent on Callas bashing then addressing the issue.
Without quote-picking - since apparently requiring one's arguments to be logical and make sense is considered poor form on the internet - let's review:
- callas makes money on the market and i hate him
- i don't make money like callas on the market and i hate him
- callas posts mostly about things when they affect him, as opposed to when they affect Fred from Guatemala! What about poor Fred, Callas?! HUH??!!
- callas seems to think software should work reasonably well, do what it says it will do, and be well-documented.
4a. Callas will never work for microsoft.
now that THAT'S out of the way...
did it ever occur to you that buying on margin might actually help all the other timezones out? And even if not, if i place an order that i can afford, why on g-d's green earth does that order magically fail based on future actions...? If my order comes thru and i have the cash it should work. Period. End of story.
CCP decided to take this out deliberately in order to ensure yet more micromanagement to the market and 'make players do more.'
I don't see it helping. Margin buying should be restored. among MANY OTHER fixes and changes, but oh well.
"Frankly, playing Eve is like writing kernel code for Windows. The documentation, which is half written, implies you should do stuff that doesn't work and you can only work out by trial and error what really *does* work. It's a black art."
quote of the month.
do YOU want to play with a calculator by your desk? The tools to play the game should be in the game. Orders and bids are just that and they should succeed or fail individually.
PS every corporation on Earth considers money it doesn't have, didn't earn and never made a "loss." You wanna whine in defense of ignorance, hey go crazy.
Some of you are dangerously close to arguing that a huge simulation of an economic system shouldn't be based on stuff you had to read a book to know - in order to ensure that people who know about economics have no advantage in a marketplace.
I regret to inform you that this makes you an idiot of the highest calibre.
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