Play Money Parts 5, 6, and 7

Part 5 of Play Money talks about Gold Farmers. I thought the part about Bob explaining to Dibbell how a person could potentailly cheat the system and get lots of gold quickly without doing any work was interesting. By setting up all the computers and making them run the copy of UO and obtain gold for him is a very smart concept. In my view I believe that this is cheating, because no work is being done and everything is being obtained. Even though I think this is cheating I can't help but be impressed by what was done to make all the computers work the way in which it did.

Later Dibbell went sraight to the source and asked the operator of all these computers, Rich, to see how he did it. Rich said that bots control the charcters for him. But there are also things such GMs that try and look for these bots to kick them out of the system. Some ways they do this is by going up to a character they think is a bot and asking it what color a stick is that they hold up in front of them. If it is a bot they cannot think for themselves and anwser the question correctly. One way that Rich got around this was by making the bots Im him or text him when a GM sowed up. This idea seemed crazy to me. It seemed as if his cheating plan was fool-proof. Even though I still thought of this method as cheating I had to give ich credit for being able to think of a plan to run against the GMs. If someone was smart enough to think of all the loop-holes and cover them, I suppose they deserved to be able to cheat the system.

Later on Rich got tohether with Lee and for a time it seemed as if their parternership worked well together, but unfornatley it later crashed when they thought that they were lying to each other. The gloves were off and they were now at war.

Part Six talks about Dibbell's thousand dollar's and a dream. His goal was to make a thousand dollars by the time that his wife and daughter came back which was three weeks. His dream was to be able to make UPO and actual profession. He was able to make the thousand dollars and even a little extra. He wanted to tell the IRS that he job was selling UO goods as his primary source of income.

In part seven he talks about the IRS and he questioned how he would tell the IRS how much money he was making. He did not know how to report his income and was confused by the whole process of it. He wanted to do everything legally. The questions that he bring up were very interesting. I could not anwser any of them, without having more legal information. Overall, I like what Dibbell had to say about his whole experience so far in the book.