[DannoHung]

Okay, two things that are relevant to this particular instance of outrage that you may not be familiar with regarding EVE:

1) The real rage is not over the Incarna vanity items, which are priced silly, but ultimately pointless. It is over a leaked memo which suggested that RMT was planned for game affecting items like ships, weapons, and faction standing.

2) If you quit EVE for even a little while, you are ceding control over space and resources to other players in the game. EVE is one of the few games that has fulfilled the promise of a truly persistent and meaningful game world. In the major alliances, there are political and military structures designed to ensure control over null-sec systems and the planets and facilities that can produce high-grade equipment.

For your suggestion to work, either players would have to decide that their protest is worth throwing away the time and effort they've put into territorial control and asset development OR that everyone in the game would have to agree not to take territory while the protest was going on.

[tsotha]

People in empire corps could take a month off without risking anything. When I was playing all the action was in 0.0, but most of the players were in high security space.

[mattmanser]

Yeah, but the impact of a RMT system on non-vanity items has the greatest effect on the players who actually engage in pvp a lot, the null sec players.