A financial investment is the purchase of an asset or item with the hope that it will generate income or appreciate in the future and be sold at the higher price.
With each financials investments risks are involved which might result in less income than anticipated for. In real life goverment legislation should always be considered a risk factor.
In politcally stable countries, the goverment actions are well predictable and the risks imposed by the goverment are relatively low. In contrast to the so called Banana republics, where the politco-economic oligarchy controls the primary sector productions and thereby exploits the country's economy. Investments done in these type of countries generally are considered high.
Within Entropia Universe, Mindark should be considered as the goverment. How would we classify this EU goverment? Is the EU goverment predictable?
A long history of introduced VU's by our goverment, Mindark, resulted in long track record of smaller and bigger surprises to individual or larger groups of investors of items, property or skills.
Think about recent examples like hangars & ships, taming, LA's, introduction of certain items.
Based upon this track record of unpredictable changes introduced by MA which impacted many players by surprise, the Entropia goverment should up to now be classified as a banana republic.
What does this mean?
The nature of the game (RCE), the actions performed by certain departments of the goverment (balancing team, planet partners), the environment we play in should be valued from the perspective of being part of a banana republic and should define each of the actions we take within this game and invest in. Current and future investments...
However this should not withold you doing certain investments in this game, as long as the risk associated by MA's actions are properly assessed and can be mitigated if possible. Think also on existing investments which a lot of people currently value as safe (e.g. CLD, certain FAP's)....What if....
Unfortunately many people either did not recognize or under-estimate or simply deny the role of mindark on their investments (see the many complaints and whining threads on these forums about des-investments a lot of people suffered due to actions taken by MA), even when Mindark publicly warned us players with this famous quote:
"EU is dynamic!"
With each financials investments risks are involved which might result in less income than anticipated for. In real life goverment legislation should always be considered a risk factor.
In politcally stable countries, the goverment actions are well predictable and the risks imposed by the goverment are relatively low. In contrast to the so called Banana republics, where the politco-economic oligarchy controls the primary sector productions and thereby exploits the country's economy. Investments done in these type of countries generally are considered high.
Within Entropia Universe, Mindark should be considered as the goverment. How would we classify this EU goverment? Is the EU goverment predictable?
A long history of introduced VU's by our goverment, Mindark, resulted in long track record of smaller and bigger surprises to individual or larger groups of investors of items, property or skills.
Think about recent examples like hangars & ships, taming, LA's, introduction of certain items.
Based upon this track record of unpredictable changes introduced by MA which impacted many players by surprise, the Entropia goverment should up to now be classified as a banana republic.
What does this mean?
The nature of the game (RCE), the actions performed by certain departments of the goverment (balancing team, planet partners), the environment we play in should be valued from the perspective of being part of a banana republic and should define each of the actions we take within this game and invest in. Current and future investments...
However this should not withold you doing certain investments in this game, as long as the risk associated by MA's actions are properly assessed and can be mitigated if possible. Think also on existing investments which a lot of people currently value as safe (e.g. CLD, certain FAP's)....What if....
Unfortunately many people either did not recognize or under-estimate or simply deny the role of mindark on their investments (see the many complaints and whining threads on these forums about des-investments a lot of people suffered due to actions taken by MA), even when Mindark publicly warned us players with this famous quote:
"EU is dynamic!"
MA is predictable in its unpredictability 
