Assembly Hall

I was looking through some old QENs especially the stats on sinks and faucets, and this crazy idea struck me.

What if we could get ALL types of RAW materials via LP store.

Each branch of npc corps would have only 1 or 2 types of RAW material, and price would be based on balance decided by CCP, and accepted by CSM?

Thus Drone salvage could be reached vi things like Creodron
RAW Ore via Mining corps.
Moon Materials from SOE or similar..

The effective cost on LP should be high enough to not break the benefits, but the monopoly.

Since all these RAW would be spread on a lot of different npc corps a lot of new missioning activity would develop.

People would move around and specialize more.

Also some additional hand in to buy these RAW materials could be useful, maybe just plain isk.

This would also make it valid to reduce the Bounty and boost LP, so the isk faucet could be turned down a bit.

Also Missions asking for PI materials and paying out the upgraded versions would be useful.

The bounty prize faucet is seen here back in the last QEN Q4 2010

This is just a simple draft idea, but with some CCP and CSM refining I think it might be helpfull to at least loosening the iron grip of the monopoly.

Also we would not have this new changes seesaw problem, since players could shift activity focus in "safe empire" to reduce the problems of new monopolistic entities and issues.

Also it might spread the bloody mission runners a bit more, to create more diverse markets for smaller industrialists and newbies.

To much space is DEAD EMPTY.

Trying to do two things really.

Reduce the perfect monopoly on any RAW material.

Making LP store and thus mission runners role a bit more directly supportive of the player to player economy.

The isk printing is disruptive and destructive to new players, and it seems to make older players a bit lethargic and even disgruntled.

We have a desperate need of either some huge wars or a trickle down mechanism for the economy.

The good dr E used to say we dont have inflation, but we seriously have a flow of isk and wealth problem.

The irony is when current null politicians and especially CSM candidates say null needs boosting, while seeing the financial report from Mittani.

We need to some stirring in the pot, and something to shine the game up a bit. Its starting to feel old and dusty. So much that I even see people seriously suggesting server roll backs or server resets.

I also recall Mittani calling the monopoly problems downright stupid.

I thought it was clear that I would remove bounty and increase LP.

The point would be to NOT remove barriers of entry, but have some loop holes through it.

While I am biting.

High Sec dont need boosting, it needs fixing. Null sec is what needs a boost, but not a monopoly oriented one.