m*****d
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Imagine spending years devoting your time and your finances to acquiring an
impressive video game spaceship, one of the biggest and most valuable the
gaming world has ever seen.
Now imagine all of that work being destroyed in minutes.
One player of the long-running online game EVE Online experienced that
horror Sunday, when an ambush destroyed his supercarrier valued at a
whopping $9,000.
The massive world of EVE Online is all about buying, piloting and blowing up
spaceships. It’s not for the faint at heart, in part because its in-game
currency, called ISK (Interstellar Kredits), carries a real-world value. The
Revenant -- one of only three ships that big in existence -- carries a
value of 309 billion ISK, making it among the priciest bits of code in the
game.
That also made it quite the target.
The ambush played out with plenty of intrigue. Players in the Pandemic
Legion received an SOS and assumed it was a player in distress. It turns out
the player they had put in charge of leading their fleet was actually a spy
for an opposing group, who led them directly into a bunch of dreadnaughts
and supercarriers. The owner of the Revenant, a player named TSID, could do
little to stop the virtual bloodbath, and the rest is EVE Online history.
The economy in EVE Online is a living thing. CCP, the game's developer,
actually has an economist in-house who monitors the virtual world, working
to curb inflation or introducing new types of technology to absorb currency.
It’s like a virtual Federal Reserve, selling bonds to shrink the money
supply.
Technically, players cannot exchange ISK for real-world cash, but CCP does
let them use that in-game currency to buy real-world objects (such as
graphics cards) and 30-day game time codes.
This isn't the first time the game has seen major losses. Eight months ago,
a ship carrying valuable blueprints worth $6,000 in real-world money was
destroyed by other players. And while losing a $9,000 spaceship is a serious
bummer, the Revenant is still a far cry from the most expensive video game
object, an honor held by a $350,000 space station in fellow online world
Project Entropia. | i****a
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发帖数: 3522 | 3 我一个朋友玩eve, 他说这是世界上最复杂的游戏，没有之一。玩家平均年龄在35岁以
上，因为过度复杂小屁孩一般玩不进去。他以前在国内专门打金币，玩了两年多，出国
后马上被一个大组织招募，免费给他战舰，原因是有substantial gold hunting
experience。
还据说这游戏对冰岛的经济有重大贡献，在冰岛制造了上千个就业机会。
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【在 m*****d 的大作中提到】
: 可怜
: Imagine spending years devoting your time and your finances to acquiring an
: impressive video game spaceship, one of the biggest and most valuable the
: gaming world has ever seen.
: Now imagine all of that work being destroyed in minutes.
: One player of the long-running online game EVE Online experienced that
: horror Sunday, when an ambush destroyed his supercarrier valued at a
: whopping $9,000.
: The massive world of EVE Online is all about buying, piloting and blowing up
: spaceships. It’s not for the faint at heart, in part because its in-game
| z*i
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星际网游， 在冰岛可能是因为server的冷却问题很容易解决， 哈哈哈
EVE当年被吹捧地可以， 说是军用模拟器电脑啥啥的， 现在也是隔三差五出来做做广告
【在 o******e 的大作中提到】
: 我一个朋友玩eve, 他说这是世界上最复杂的游戏，没有之一。玩家平均年龄在35岁以
: 上，因为过度复杂小屁孩一般玩不进去。他以前在国内专门打金币，玩了两年多，出国
: 后马上被一个大组织招募，免费给他战舰，原因是有substantial gold hunting
: experience。
: 还据说这游戏对冰岛的经济有重大贡献，在冰岛制造了上千个就业机会。
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