Two inevitable failures

Sugar wrote a very open post. She wrote "I failed" in a culture of "I didn't want this anyway". She accepted being angry in the culture of "u mad?". She did so about something that would never get air, as no other party has reason to brag, so she could keep it hidden if she wanted. But she put everything out for us to learn from. This is why her blog is a must in the very pretentious EVE-"community".

But let's focus on the failures and see why they were inevitable:

• "I failed at my urban renewal program in Molden Heath." Unsuccessful regions are unsuccessful for a reason. Their damaged state is merely a consequence of that. Fixing the buildings, painting the fences and picking up the garbage might conceal the failure that permeates the zone. There is simply no reason to live in Molden Heath, which is obvious from the fact that its greatest supporter, Sugar herself doesn't live there anymore. Fixing it could only happen by finding a way to make it profitable to live there.
• "I failed to bring enough value as a neutral." Being neutral means being altruistic. You gain nothing from the project, which means it can only work as long as you can finance it from outside. While the store wasn't a financial loss, it was clearly a very time-consuming one and it clearly didn't pay enough for her time. Which leads to:
• "I failed to get anyone else as vested in that project": without personal interest, not many capable people want to join. Why would they? However this one is not set in stone (hence the title). Running a market means competition to everyone else. Maybe now that Sugar moved out, someone will move in. Probably with higher prices, not with "urban renewal" attitude, but still as a better option than "go highsec".

So the failure was the inevitable failure of altruism. However it worked for a long time and continue to work in Sujarento, the new home of Sugar. Why? Because there it's not altruistic. Sugar lives there, she works for her own home. She lives there by choice, so there must be something attractive in that place. That "thing" will attract other people too, creating a bigger market, better results, more reason for others to trade there. The reborn TCS won't fail!


PS: CCP Mimic jumped on Amarr local chat and was greeted by the wonderful EVE player community: