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**ringsarcle** · 09-03-2006, 10:08 AM

Except for the fact that one day, cally decided to grab all the money that was deposited and fly off to space with an alleged total sum of 790 billion Isk. In real life, this would translate to \$170,000 - quite possibly the biggest MMO scam ever conducted.
I wouldnt give a large amount of isk to some random dude, no matter what his reputation. I was iffy about buying a corp jump clone contract for 25mil isk (about £3 spread amongst the corp) and the corp we bought that from has expensive stations and assets would could take revenge on.

I'm a bit confused, are ISKs transferrable into real money like dollars and sterling, or vice versa? I don't quite understand this whole equivalent thing. Are people paying over real money into this game?

The answer would effect my opinion on the whole thing.

And yes, I know nothing about MMPORGs other than what the acronym stands for.

09-03-2006, 10:08 AM	#11
ringsarcle Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 412 Senior Member	Except for the fact that one day, cally decided to grab all the money that was deposited and fly off to space with an alleged total sum of 790 billion Isk. In real life, this would translate to \$170,000 - quite possibly the biggest MMO scam ever conducted. I wouldnt give a large amount of isk to some random dude, no matter what his reputation. I was iffy about buying a corp jump clone contract for 25mil isk (about £3 spread amongst the corp) and the corp we bought that from has expensive stations and assets would could take revenge on. I'm a bit confused, are ISKs transferrable into real money like dollars and sterling, or vice versa? I don't quite understand this whole equivalent thing. Are people paying over real money into this game? The answer would effect my opinion on the whole thing. And yes, I know nothing about MMPORGs other than what the acronym stands for.
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