A couple of posts down, before a bit of weather happened, I wrote to the Bank of England on behalf of everyone who’s interested in games and finance and mischief. I thought at best I’d be ignored. At worst, I expected a big telling off for wasting bank time. Is that a crime? It should be.

But no! The Bank of England, the people in charge of all the money in this little country, took time out of their day to email me about a curious videogame. And here is what they said:

Hello
 
Thank you for your e-mail on this matter.
 
With regard to the UK, you may be interested to know that the wholesale distribution & circulation of Bank of England banknotes is managed under the Note Circulation Scheme, which promotes the processing and distribution of notes by the commercial sector. More can be read about this at:
 
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/about/distribution_circulation.htm
 
In the case that you highlight, however, one is talking in hypothetical terms about a galaxy that exists only in the abstract. In such a scenario, it is therefore impossible to quantify the economic effects that might, or might not, be felt in a virtual world by taking a large quantity of ‘interstellar currency’ out of circulation.
 
Kind regards
 
Public Information and Enquiries Group

Please note that my initial email mentioned nothing about a galaxy (because I’m a bit sketchy about that bit of EVE, the bit about where it is) so someone’s either done some good Googling or I have been replied to by an EVEite! If you are a player, keep track of your interest rates – you don’t know who might be round the corner waiting to slash them.

Well done The Bank of England, you responded and it wasn’t to tell me that I am now being monitored by MI5. Still no idea about the iminent collapse of EVE’s financial community. Oh well!