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EVE online is a great sandbox to play with free market economics. Reputation gaming is a nontrivial problem with real world implications.
by nazgulnarsil 15y ago
EVE online is a great sandbox to play with free market economics. Reputation gaming is a nontrivial problem with real world implications.
- tzs 15y agoI wonder if there are any serious academic researchers studying it? There was an economist who did some extensive studies of the EverQuest economy around 2002. It was interesting--he could not get any journals to publish his work, but it was the top download at SSRN (and even now, it remains the #6 download of all time there). Here's an article about that: http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/info_and_tech/game_theories.htm http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/info_and_tech/game_theories.ht...
- JonWood 15y agoI don't know about independent researchers but CCP, who run Eve, employ a full time economist who publishes quarterly reports on the state of the in-game economy.