EVE General Discussion

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Incursions started Nov/Dec of 2010 (January?).

I dunno what's happening with plex prices, but I know when prices fall back down, I'll be the first to start buying them up this time....

If CCP were Evil enough to buy PLEX, then, as gods of the sandbox, CCP's Evil could know no bounds. An Evil CCP has perfect market knowledge and the ability to produce anything at zero cost, which means we would need to assume that an Evil CCP would be willing to cover their tracks via other unethical manipulations of the sandbox. Evil CCP could use mineral sell orders (with minerals created from the ether) to balance isk injections from PLEX buy orders.

CCP could be using identity theft to drain isk from players. Eve lost a bunch of subs recently. If you lose a lot of accounts, then the economy can shrink/suffer from the reduced player market interaction. CCP knows the rates at which those accounts accumulated assets and spent isk in the economy, thus CCP could create NPC accounts/bots that follow spending behaviors similar to the formerly active accounts. This preserves the size of the economy while giving CCP the opportunity have these NPC accounts act as enormous sinks.

Or CCP has a marketing/financial trader use CCP's omniscience to drain isk from the economy via conventional means.

Or CCP could engage in RTM where CCP pays RL cash for isk. This "legal" RTM would allow CCP to pull isk out of the economy. The special player gets a legal, safe bounty of say $5 for every 450M isk they collect. That 450M isk sink means that CCP can put another PLEX buy order on the market. Obviously , the $5 bounty would need to be covered by real PLEX sales and would require increased PLEX sales (due to the increased isk value of PLEX) to be worthwhile.

Or maybe Incursion LP stores (or other sinks) have been taking more isk out of the economy than anyone expects.

tl;dr - Use name brand tinfoil. The generic stuff doesn't work.

Buy them now because they won't go down.

Incursions won't be nerf'd any time soon, L4 mission runners are still going strong. Isk is going to keep flowing into the market and everything is going to get more expensive. But if everyone has more Isk then is it really more expensive?

TY I will look into this more, this gives me a date to work with. I do not want to believe that incursions are the sole issue here. There should be no way that one aspect of this game can affect the price increase we are seeing. I think it could be a combination of things.

Other dates I will be looking up is the Sanctum nerf and when they changed missions to all Q20 agents. These two events are other factors that generate had or do generate large amounts of Isk. I know that I am not counting ratting but the number of players who Ratt are defiantly lower then the number of mission runners. Also I am trying to find a percentage of players that are involved in incursions.

Another factor is you have to look at if there have been any large wars going on. Large fights end up with more destroyed ships and players have less Isk at those points in time. This past year has been quite a large blue nap fest which might have a larger effect on the prices of plex, since the common grunt has more isk to throw around. I realize that wars do not actually destroy Isk they just shift it into the hands of the producers.

I would suggest that it is actually because of a decrease in the amount of conflict that certain alliances which once purchased much more plex are in.