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28704: RE: [MUD-Dev] RE: A world without charity

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From: "Jeff Crane" <jeff@monstersinmotion.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:58:19 -0800
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
"Castronova, Edward" <ecastronova@Exchange.FULLERTON.EDU> writes:
> Eamonn wrote:

>> I started to wonder why players can trade items for money, and
>> the answer is simple, because in game mechanics generally allow
>> you to hand an item over to a player and to recieve nothing in
>> return, an act of charity. So this got me thinking, if the game
>> prevented acts of charity such that all you could do with an item
>> was junk it (i.e. remove it from the game world, not drop it) or
>> trade it for an equally valuable item what would this do to the
>> game world?

>  (replying to an old thread)

> Just want to mention that developers already do this:

> I am sure there is more.

3. Taxing transactions

I believe Lineage 2 is doing something like this.
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