Market Discussions

I suspected that excessive hoarding causes weight gain, but I never thought it would be on such a massive scale... around 300-400 lbs.

Okay, but you're missing the part where you actually prove that CCP is behind it. Your enormous assumption in all of this is that CCP is too stupid to understand the ramifications of upward PLEX manipulation and are doing it anyway. That seems highly unlikely, being that they actually employ an economist. What are you going to argue next? That the economist is locked up in a basement somewhere with a gag in his mouth? You may not need a tinfoil hat to make the argument you're making. Sometimes you just need to be stupid. But I think you're simultaneously wearing tinfoil and being stupid here.

His real name is JarJarNefarious and all his posts are copy-pasted from Star Wars:The Phantom Menace script.

As a pure trader with no combat skills other than those I received fome character creation, I have no idea of what you are talking about in terms the mechanics associated in using speedtanked alts and complexes. But I can tell you this; if you see this activity as a menace to the economy, or even a problem, the easiest way to take care of it is to detail what is being done, write it in terms a combat scrum can understand, post it to the forums, and encourage more of this activity. Assuming you aren't engaged in utilizing an 8 day speedtanked alt, no harm will come to you. As more people engage in this activity, the complaints will increase and the nerf (whatever it is) will correct the issue.

Nothing ever gets corrected in MMOs unless it truly becomes an issue. Do your best (within the rules) to make it an issue.

Unfortunately that would mean the higher prices go, the less supply there will be, leading to even higher prices, which in turn reduce supply even more. That kind of thinking would have had the system self-destruct a long time ago.

You left out it gets turned into aurum ( not quite destroyed more like converted ).

This is a very popular false assumption. It assumes the demand for a fixed amount of ISK is completely inelastic. Meaning people will purchase the required amount of PLEX to get e.g. 1b ISK no matter how many PLEX they have to purchase. That's obviously wrong.

If a super carrier costs 600 Euro x-amount of people will buy the required PLEX to get a super carrier. However, if you only have to spend 300 Euro to buy a super carrier more than x people will buy the required PLEX to get a super carrier. (An increase in the ISK price of a PLEX will cause a decrease in the rl-money price of a super carrier.)

CCP basically has a monopoly on (legally) selling ISK. If you have a monopoly you will want to maximize the result of amount of items sold times price per item (i.e. profit per item). If you are the owner of a football stadium and you can either sell tickets for 300 Euro resulting in 60% of seats remaining empty or you can sell them for 200 Euro resulting in 10% of seats remaining empty or you can sell them for 100 Euro resulting in no seats remaining empty you will want to sell the tickets for 200 Euro to maximize the total profit (200*80% > 300*40% > 100*100%). The difference with ISK (PLEX) is that CCP does not directly control the price of ISK. But still a higher ISK price of PLEX (= lower rl-money price of ISK) doesn’t necessarily mean the total profit for CCP decreases.

Please close your account, that was terrible.

All depends on how well stocked the market will be in the next months, if the supply is running low again into lesser than 50-100 Plex in Jita, prices will skyrocket again and drop down after. Rinse and repeat but the effect can be seen already the buy order is rising. Worst case will be a low supply for several days or one week then Plex prices will really skyrocketing.
Right now buy orders are going towards 530+ but the amount of Plex for less than 550m is very low. The interesting times will be from mid October to mid March that is usually the time of year with the highest prices.