ISK that could have been made in EULA breaking ways.

Just a heads up, I've found a new home for the isk. Expect some interest payments from this bond.

Are you able to go into further detail?

Another factor is: I had to work with CCP and perform selection on the donors. Some of them had less than a pristine background and the risk of getting tainted ISK was tangible. The choice to leave them out was inevitable, for the best of the Fund.

Have CCP give any indication that they might run another PLEX for good drive in the future? I realise that with some of their recent business decisions () they might not have much profit to write off against taxes with charitable donations but if they have suggested that they would be inclined to repeat the exercise some day I would be quite tempted to put together a little project in the not too distant future to boost the fund's holdings a little (nothing major planned but an injection of a few bil that I would not otherwise be motivated to grind).

Edit - btw, your site seems to be down.

Perhaps you could take steps to ease your very heavy nearly unbearable burden a bit? Stash everything in a corporation, you as the CEO, one other pretty trustworthy corp member with no roles, and a first-rate trusted third party outside of the corporation with 100% of the shares?

We all know the shares system sucks when trying to secure stuff, but in this case the goal is not securing, but making sure the stuff remains accessible in a classic hit-by-a-bus scenario.

I don't know anyone who is ready to keep up with a multi-year task like this... and for basically nothing but charity.

Even Chribba has stopped sending updates about how much NAV is currently his sister fund worth. Since a long, long time.

I figured it was better to report changes than non-changes from my side, hence the darkness, as there hasn't been made any deposits.

/c

I sincerely don't know, I asked them in the past and this kind of initiative was still active. I could ask them again and tell you the reply.
If they took it down it'd be a big pity.

Strictly speaking about ISK, it'd not be a big problem: the fund is so heavily recorded that I could easily send ISK back to the post PLEX for Japan Donors with 2 digits of precision.
It'd also relieve me of a very heavy burden: to hold someone else's money with the highest and noblest mission of all (charity) for years, without having a way to automatically give it away to someone else in case of my inability to play EvE.

Agreed. It would be a great shame if they stopped it.

QFT

The concept provides me with motivation to make money in Eve. At the end of the day, I hope to give everything to charity. In fact, my biggest fear now is that CCP have stopped doing this, which would be a death blow to my Eve life.

I think Viaris did the right thing and gave everything he had to charity for the Japan drive. I did not have the guts at the time (or the money for that matter) to do the same. Just praying that CCP open it at least once more, so I can finally do something useful with these pixels.

hence the darkness

Just to let people know, we are currently discussing our next charity drive. I am unable to comment if it will be a PLEX for Good drive like in the past, but we have not abandoned our charity initiatives.

As long as I can convert the donated ISK into whatever you choose it's fine.

It would be very sad if it wasn't possible to donate converted ISK to the future charity drives.

I don't see CCP Eternes statement as particularly reassuring in that respect.

I remember that in previous financial statements they were logging the code being developed for DUST as an asset valued at the cost of producing said code but I suspect they won't be able to maintain the fiction that that particular asset is still worth what it cost to produce for too long in the face of the reality of that game's failure.

The failure of DUST in it's current guise isn't much of a suprise. But what CCP said at EVE Vegas suggests that they'll roll DUST and Valkyrie into EVE anyway so that at worst they become somewhat expensive (for CCP) expansions to their core product instead of orphaned product write-offs.

Seems like it's been a while since CCP did any donations for RL disasters. What about this typhoon business in the Philippines? Is there anyone we can contact to see if they plan a donation of some sort?

By the way, if CCP go ahead with this, and if it is ok with both you and Grendell, I would warmly support the liquidation of the 35bil Grendell holds and its conversion into PLEX.

That 35b is currently in a bond, normally i would find a replacement investor but in this case it's looking like the loan will be defaulting. So in this scenario I could always front the isk until that liquidation is finished.