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The story behind this appears to be a lucky behind the lines kill by a stealth bomber pilot. Inside the Ship Maintenance Array was a fully fitted Avatar class Titan, one of the biggest and most expensive ships in the game. There are claims this ship belongs to Sort Dragon, a character that is infamous in the Eve Online community for running one of the strongest alliances in the game into the ground without any hostile pressure or other crisis, just utter incompetence and heavy handed leadership trying to evict the TEST alliance from their player-owned space who then rebelled.
To purchase this ship using PLEX would cost around $2440 in real world currency or approx 122 PLEX.
So I'm confused. Did this happen with real money, or was it imaginary? Is EVE one of those games where you pay real money for game things? Does somebody get the money as a reward for destroying the ship? Is it like gambling?
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In game currency is purchasable by buying a PLEX (an in-game item) with real world money then selling that PLEX on the in game market for game currency.
The conversion rate is $20 to about 900,000,000 ISK (in game currency). You can also earn ISK in game by doing missions and other activities too.
Eve pretty much pioneered this way of legally purchasing in game currency using the in game market. Other games that have copied the idea include Rift, Wildstar and WoW.
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The story behind this appears to be a lucky behind the lines kill by a stealth bomber pilot. Inside the Ship Maintenance Array was a fully fitted Avatar class Titan, one of the biggest and most expensive ships in the game. There are claims this ship belongs to Sort Dragon, a character that is infamous in the Eve Online community for running one of the strongest alliances in the game into the ground without any hostile pressure or other crisis, just utter incompetence and heavy handed leadership trying to evict the TEST alliance from their player-owned space who then rebelled.
To purchase this ship using PLEX would cost around $2440 in real world currency or approx 122 PLEX.
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So I'm confused. Did this happen with real money, or was it imaginary? Is EVE one of those games where you pay real money for game things? Does somebody get the money as a reward for destroying the ship? Is it like gambling?
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In game currency is purchasable by buying a PLEX (an in-game item) with real world money then selling that PLEX on the in game market for game currency.
The conversion rate is $20 to about 900,000,000 ISK (in game currency). You can also earn ISK in game by doing missions and other activities too.
Eve pretty much pioneered this way of legally purchasing in game currency using the in game market. Other games that have copied the idea include Rift, Wildstar and WoW.
[–] Solstiare ago (edited ago)
Assuming that it was his.
edit: It appears to have been.