It's amazing sometimes how much EVE mimics real life. I used to know a guy that ran a bank there.
My little brother used to be really into it, eventually leading fleets during fights, and he credits that experience with giving him the skills he needed to manage teams at an IT company.
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.
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.
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.
I used to lead Counter Strike 1.6 teams in my teens- I often reflect on how that was some of my early leadership "training".
Good memories of motivating my teams of 15/16/17 year olds to get online at 6/7am in the morning to work on our skills before school, and for epic days during the summer.
I used to GM some pen and paper RPGs with a team of adorable and mischevious players. It taught me to be paranoid about every little flaw or loophole in rules. "Can my 'create water' spell work to flood this bad guy's heart?"
I think to prevent tax evasion, tax law should be written by people with 5+ years of GMing experience...
hallmark of a good game! The cutthroat-ness, and the non-consensual pvp nature is what makes the game act like real-life; after all, you don't get to have consensual pvp in real life either!
My little brother used to be really into it, eventually leading fleets during fights, and he credits that experience with giving him the skills he needed to manage teams at an IT company.