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I had the same leadership training with minecraft, leading factions in RP servers and trading with other cities, complete with alliances, trade deals, and wars. Eventually I became an OP and eventually an admin, with all the responsibilities that entails at the age of 13. But obviously EVE is another level of complexity.

An interesting article related to minecraft economics can be read here: https://www.alicemaz.com/writing/minecraft.html

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It's amazing to me how people can link to articles they once read seemingly off-hand. I can't reference most of what I read, because I can't seem find it again: I rarely remember enough for a successful google search and history searches seem to be generally ineffective.

I run all my one-off less-popular not-easily-searchable-in-google articles in pinboard bookmarking tool, sometimes I forget to do it though or don't tag it enough.

Haven't played minecraft much, but isn't minecraft just server-based in one instance? With servers upwards of up to 100 players?

Nothing from one server translates to another though to my knowledge

Trade deals come from just NPC's and whatever player interactions had with those NPCs, depending on the plugins installed to the server?

I don't think jarboot said anything about trading between servers. Just trading between cities, probably on the same server?

It's been a while for me but there were definitely some server mods starting to pop up that would allow that kind of cross server play/material transfer. With mods the sky is kind of the limit for what you can do in MC even on servers.

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