EVE General Discussion

I imagine it's because people hoard it.

If feel you have to say it's not a rant, it's a rant.

Dead Horse

PLEX is 29 million isk per day right now. Their are high sec missions and null anomalies that pay this amount of isk and more and none of them take more than 10-15 minutes in a tech1 BS or tech3 cruiser. A single high sec incursion HQ site that takes between 8 and 14 minutes pays 31.5 mil (Plus another 7 mil worth of CONCORD LP).

If you can't spend 10 minutes out of a day to gain 24 hours of 'free' access to a video game you shouldn't be using plex in the 1st place, making any discussion of it's rising price completely moot.

/Dead Horse

It's straight up supply and demand. On the demand side you've got people who want to play without spending cash. On the supply side you've got people who have more cash than time wanting to do something other than grind isk with the time that they do have to play. Static demand, shrinking supply, higher price.

Yes, space richness does come into play. Orgs with lots of passive income or just a lot of old money can afford to stand their key players to a plex each month to keep them playing. They are competing with players who have to grind for those plex for a shrinking supply.

It also doesn't help that CCP decided to raise the cash price of a plex to considerably more than the cost of a monthy sub, in order to milk the cash cows that they do have a little harder.

Do you really believe what you just spewed onto the page?

Tell me, what version of eve do you play in which I can magically poof TWO billion isk ships out of my butt and then magically have the skills required to fly said ships, and also magically poofed an alt to help me do it, then poofed into a C4 wormhole site without scanning anything, and also poofed out any WH dwellers looking to scan me down, and then poofed back out of the WH back into high sec at a trading station that immediately buy my items? Tell me which version?

#nopoors

*checks Hadrian's birthdate. November 2013. Right.

*checks his own birthdate. March 2014. Ok.

*scratches his head on how a character older with more skills than himself can't make a few bil for decent ratting ships.

stop playing eve wrong maybe?

Ways to make isk in eve 101

Mission. Byt the time you het lvl 4's you will have the isk for a ship that cna fly it

Mine find an out of the way system and mine your ass off

Explore get a cloaky ship (cost you like maybe 60m) and go hack or anaylze sites, with luck you cna net 400m+ in a matter of mins.

Gas mine: Get a venture or a prospect, scan down a c5 or c6 and ninga 3 digit gas. you cna net a few hundred million if the site is clear or you keep moving

Ice mine see above topic mining

trade follow the market find something you cna sell and trade

build get yourself s imple bp and buy the basic ore needed to make it, build and sell for profit

run low end worm holes : in a bloody c1 you cna EASILY net 200m isk in an hour with a BS or lower. Esp if you get a jackpot of nano ribbons and you are fast at clearing sites

good lord dude, stop playing eve wrong.

Edit:

and thats not even things like piracy, bounty hunting, pvping, suicide ganking, scamming,

Hell an explorer ship and an empty wormhole you cna sell for 1b isk in a matter of days.

so i repeat.. stop playing eve wrong.

if you are broke its your own damn fault. Take it from someone who for 7 years of his eve carrier ran a corp and did everything, and never broke 1b isk. I had fun doing it, and if i wanted money it took me a few days to get it to get what i wanted.

Making isk is STUPID easy in eve.

If you expect to consistently PLEX your account during your first year in the game you will need to spend a lot of hours in New Eden - mining, level 4 missions, hauling - divide the price of PLEX by your isk/hour and that's how long it will take. By the time you've been playing the game a year, that 2 billion isk Marauder is pocket change - and you'll have no trouble flying it if you set your goals and focused your training.

In a little over a year I am making several billion per month in Industry. I use it to pay for multiple character training and still pay my subscriptions but all my ALTs should be fully trained by my second anniversary in the game and I expect to easily PLEX my subscriptions.

All PLEX is initially purchased from CCP for real money and sold in game by someone - frequently new players - who want ISK. If the number of new players drops so will the supply of PLEX. If the number of experienced players wanting to pay with PLEX increases the supply/demand imbalance will drive the price up.