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Comparing the value of player donations to Haiti relief efforts to the cost of a titan. (Based on this visualization of relative ship prices.)

Late last month, EVE players were witness to a fascinating economic situation: since January 29th, more than 606 billion ISK worth of items was donated to Haiti from the players of EVE. [...]

Money plays a central role to life in EVE. I’ve been kind of cavalierly throwing around numbers about money, like in this post about Hulkageddon. What does 200B ISK in damage actually look like? When I lose a Battleship, how much is that setting me back? How many Logistics ships could you buy instead of [...]

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
When the history of GoonSwarm is written, it will be a delicious irony that their lust for Delve led to their downfall as a space-holding 0.0 Alliance.
For most of EVE’s history, GoonSwarm has been one of the major power blocs. They have a lengthy, [...]

Another consequence of the 0.5, CONCORD arrives in well under a minute and blows the criminals to bits with overwhelming force. The problem for miners is that their ships have essentially no defensive capabilities, and a small dedicated crew of pirates can easily blow up a 200M+ ISK mining ship before the police arrive. [...]