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Too many acronyms that I'm not familiar with because I never played Eve. Can someone translate?

zitterbewegung 16y ago
1 PLEX = 1 month of free game time. ISK = in game currency Plex stands for pilots licence extension. ISK stands for Iceland Kroner where the parent company of EVE online is based.
- euccastro 16y ago
  Although the ISK name comes from the Krona, it officialy means Inter Space Kredit or something like that.
_wdh 16y ago
In EVE, players can pay real money for an ingame item called a PLEX. A PLEX can either be sold ingame to another player for pretend EVE money (called ISK) or used up by the player for an extra month subscription. In this way, players can either pay real money for ISK or pay ISK for extra subscription time. A recent patch allows players to move these items about in the game world (before they were locked in the station). In EVE, players fly spaceships about. There are different classes of spaceship, but the smallest and weakest ship are called frigates. They are also by far the most common ships to see in EVE as they are the only ships that can be flown by new players. EVE also permits (and encourages) player on player combat. When a player's ship is destroyed, there is a random dice roll for each item in cargo to decide if the item will survive. Surviving items are dropped into the game world and can be taken by other players. Therefore players can attack other players and steal their items. This is normally done by a gang of pirate players who wait at the stargates that act as bottlenecks between areas. These pirates scan passing ships to see what cargo they are holding and if it's worth it, they attack. Mostly they attack large cargo ships, not beginners frigates as the loot you get from a beginning player doesn't outweigh the costs of attacking a ship. What's happened here is that one player (probably working for some sort of large ingame player run group) was trying to move PLEX around (probably for profit, the market is player run and prices are different from area to area) in a weak frigate in an attempt to avoid attention, assuming that pirates would not bother scanning a tiny frigate. If it works it's a very cheap and easy way to move items about. In practice the pirates much have cargo scanned the frigate and then attacked it, seeking to steal the PLEX's. However the PLEX's were destroyed by an unlucky dice roll, robbing the pirates of their loot.

1 PLEX = 1 month of free game time. ISK = in game currency Plex stands for pilots licence extension. ISK stands for Iceland Kroner where the parent company of EVE online is based.

euccastro 16y ago
Although the ISK name comes from the Krona, it officialy means Inter Space Kredit or something like that.

_wdh 16y ago

In EVE, players can pay real money for an ingame item called a PLEX. A PLEX can either be sold ingame to another player for pretend EVE money (called ISK) or used up by the player for an extra month subscription. In this way, players can either pay real money for ISK or pay ISK for extra subscription time. A recent patch allows players to move these items about in the game world (before they were locked in the station). In EVE, players fly spaceships about. There are different classes of spaceship, but the smallest and weakest ship are called frigates. They are also by far the most common ships to see in EVE as they are the only ships that can be flown by new players. EVE also permits (and encourages) player on player combat. When a player's ship is destroyed, there is a random dice roll for each item in cargo to decide if the item will survive. Surviving items are dropped into the game world and can be taken by other players. Therefore players can attack other players and steal their items. This is normally done by a gang of pirate players who wait at the stargates that act as bottlenecks between areas. These pirates scan passing ships to see what cargo they are holding and if it's worth it, they attack. Mostly they attack large cargo ships, not beginners frigates as the loot you get from a beginning player doesn't outweigh the costs of attacking a ship. What's happened here is that one player (probably working for some sort of large ingame player run group) was trying to move PLEX around (probably for profit, the market is player run and prices are different from area to area) in a weak frigate in an attempt to avoid attention, assuming that pirates would not bother scanning a tiny frigate. If it works it's a very cheap and easy way to move items about. In practice the pirates much have cargo scanned the frigate and then attacked it, seeking to steal the PLEX's. However the PLEX's were destroyed by an unlucky dice roll, robbing the pirates of their loot.