Nationality is not race and has nothing to do with race. jesus, the idiocy just grows in leaps and bounds around here. Also, flag all you want. Would you like a coloring book with your safe space too?
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- Abyss content launch.
- CSM elections.
- Suspended accounts re-instated (with wallets intact).
- Something needs a lot of isk for something, or wants it off inactive accounts.
First two certainly contributed.
The last two are speculative, but the spike is big enough that its unlikely the first two caused it entirely.
Or its CCP data/accounting error.
For lack of a better word, the act of disparaging collectives based on who they are perceived to be is called racism.
Slurring Chinese for being Chinese is racism. Claimign itās not a race is pointless: we donāt have a better word so we compare disparaging of collectives with the former disparaging based on race. We call the whole after the name of a part, but itās still the same thing.
(Case in point: āautismā doesnāt exists. Thereās a many conditions of what now we call āAutism Spectre Disordersā or ASD. What was originally called āautismā is just one of those ASDs, but we still use the name of the part to adress the whole)
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Sinophobia is the closest more accurate term i can think of. That or just plain old negative steroetyping.
I agree with other poster, that it is innaccurately called āracismā.
I do agree it is nonetheless against forum rules.
Now can we please return to actual topic?
Yes, please!
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Wel, PCU shows an upward anomaly in the last weekend of may and first weekends of June: instead of going down, PCU actually went up, so we know that more players were playing.
32 trillion looks like a lot, but itās only 640 x50 billion accounts. 640 people is not a lot out of a pool of (at the very, very least) 600,000 retired PvE players.
I think you overestimate that 50bil wallet of inactive players.
Probably closer to 5bil, which raises the return figure to 6400 players in that short span.
Does Sinophbia include all 27 of the officially recognized ethnicites in Chinaā¦?
As I said, the widespread use of āracismā to address collective disparaging is just a case of naming the whole after the part, something quite usual in languages. I donāt know if thereās a word in philosophy, either Latin or Greek, that means āall those who we attribute a same identity to themā. My guess is that it doesnāt exist so we canāt make a cute portmanteau of something-phobia and stop using āracismāā¦ speciallly since xenophobia is already taken.
Yes, as it refers to the nation of China.
As you point out, calling it racism is innaccurate, as there is no āchinese raceā, rather there are 27 ethnic groups with disparate genetic origin as well as countless admixtures both now and historically.
Can we drop this now?
I mean retired PvE players. After two years, a mission runner who paid his sub with money will tipically owe several faction BS, one or two Marauders, a few faction modulesā¦ thatās like 10 to 15 bilion just in assets. Plus PLEX. Plus liquid ISK. And letās hope active ISK doesnāt accounts the market value of skillpoints.
Afaik, only raw isk is in the figure.
No PLEX or other assets.
As above, I think you overestimate the average wallet size of inactive players.
I personally have never had more than 5bil at a time in raw isk.
A inaccurate name is better than no name. Naming the whole after a part might be inaccurate, but itās usable, specially when there is no accurate word.
Just look at this thread, werāe using ācode wordsā continuously, like āmission runnerā. What is a mission runner? Do they even exist as in someone who only does agent missions? If a āmission runnerā mines, is he still a misison runner? Et cetera.
But the point is, thereās players who are not playing, and come back to play the new content, and have large wealth that haves a serious impact on the active ISK.
I dont agree. Words have meaning, and the point of words is to communicate oneself accurately so as to be understood accurately (since we arent telepathic).
But it doesnt matter to this thread.
I dont have data on hand, but I dont think other added content has resulted in such a spike of re-activated isk wallets.
Then hereās were you are wrong. Active ISK accounts for all assets, not just liquid ISK. AID is related to economy size, is measured in ISK but is not just the ISK.
See here, it measures the value of the account when it joins or leaves:
https://forums-archive.eveonline.com/message/6380174/#post6380174
Is there a figure for just raw isk to deduct from that?
LOL, words have a meaning, but that meaning is a code, not a reality, and it only is as accurate as people agree on it. A same word can have many meanings, and they all are as accurate as the person, time and place involvedā¦ and sometimes theyāre not accurate at all and yet convey the message.
The purpose of language is to communicate. if we lakc accurate word, we loan them to mean what is intended.
(And thatās even worst when speaking a foreign language, where the accurate word is replaced by anything remotely ressembling it).
So yes, slurring Chinese is racism, because we donāt have a better word for it. Same as you say āa pine treeā or āa fir treeā when itās actually a specific conifer.
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Sinophobia is literally accurate by definition for your purposes, per here: Anti-Chinese sentiment - Wikipedia
Anti-Chinese sentiment, Sinophobia (from Late Latin Sinae āChinaā and Greek ĻĻĪ²ĪæĻ, phobos, āfearā), or Chinophobia is a sentiment against China, its people, overseas Chinese, or Chinese culture.
Raw ISK would be too volatile, IMO. I guess itās not accounted at all, what would be the point to know that player X bought as many PLEX as he could by looking at his liquid ISK plummet? He still haves the same wealth, just in a different form. Itās like RL eocnomy, they donāt mean literal dollars as in bills, coins or things you can see or touch such as cars, brooms and land plots; actualy the things you can touch or see are worth less than 1% of the global wealth.
Except noone is afraid of the Chinese as a nation or even as a people, only of what Chinese gamers inevitably turn every game they touch into: a bot infested, cheat and hack filled cesspool. And of course a rational person knows that Chinese gamers are who we are talking about, but those like Yiole have to make it āall Chineseā to support their SJW āeveryone with an opinion I donāt agree with is racist/homophobic/nazi/etcā agenda. And Iāll leave it at that, but I bet Yiole wonāt.
Raw isk data would be invaluable for a number of reasons, primarily for measuring how much of it is currently ingame and deducting it from other data so as to ascertain what is being done with it.
Isk is remarkably difficult to destroy in EVE.
The greatest sink is players āleavingā, and inversly, returning players bring it back into the numbers.