Market Discussions

Yeah, here's the difference...last time I ran factory planets it was in highsec and I touched them once a week, period. :p This requires near-zero capital expenditure, though, so its nice for our newbies and it leaves me to use my capital elsewhere.


Either way, I think the point is that we both have easy, low-effort, mostly-passive incomes on the side and can laugh at all the whiners.



Sure is a good thing that PI is a side-income specifically reserved for account maintenance rather than my primary income source, then.

PI gives 8 bil/month for 30 min average work per day.

@enterprisePSI How much ?

I think that thats only one half of the problem. Other half is price of isk on black market. Atm u can buy 1b for 10e which is much cheaper than buying plex from ccp. Theres also the ease of boting in this game thanks to the belt rating and courier missions.
It would be wery interesting to see what would happen if belt rats would stop spawning and if there wasnt any courier missions for a week.

Also who said the Market wasnt inflating, Trit just hit 4.6 a unit. Plex has kept goign and is at 520 and Drakes are 43 Million. (Yes, that is an unscientific basket of goods but still)

You could always get a job and pay 14.95 a month or even less if you buy up a few months.

On an hour to hour ratio paying 14.95 is by far the better way of paying for a game. Take some people many hours to get 500 mil

Nerfing things like PI (which is an ISK sink due to the tariffs unless you put up a POCO), is a stupid suggestion. I'm shocked that you would make that suggestion, Akita T, since you usually have a firm grip on faucet vs sink. All of the income from stuff like PI, mining, Loyalty Points, R&D agents comes from other players being willing to pay another player ISK for the item. If the players over-supply the market, people who do things like PI, R&D agent farming, etc. prices drop and those items are worth less per unit.

The only reason that player-supplied goods rise/fall is supply vs demand. A new FOTM pops up and people stop consuming one item and switch to consuming a different item. Which leads to temporary shortages and over-supply until the producers figure out that the winds have shifted and change what they make to meet the new demand.

If you want to lower inflation, look at things that generate magical ISK out of thin air, like the Incursion ISK reward, or mission rewards, insurance payout or rat bounties. Swap some of them for things that have to be sold to other players. Or add some new ISK sinks, or increase some existing ISK sinks.

Mostly, it's because there's a lot more ISK then there was 3-4 years ago. More ISK sitting in wallets, more ISK moving around between players as CCP has moved more of the economy towards being player-driven (less NPC sold goods), along with 3-4 years of non-stop mission rewards, rat bounties, anom payouts, whatever. Players are simply richer then they used to be and it's a lot easier to make 100M these days because of all the ISK sloshing around.

I mean Akita is so stupid she would nerf missions more than they have been over the years. What we need to nerf is 0.0 and Low Sec and stop the elitist bullshit. They make isk hand over fist for very little work. They cuss highsec why? They rat on 5 million rats and whine their EPeen tears. **** them and their ignorant nonsense.

That's good advice. Do you think the prices will drop under 400 when the summer slump hits?

People need to stop panic-buying the PLEX because "OMG THEY WENT 10M LESS!!! BUYBUYBUY!" I mean 4500 orders filled because PLEX are at 475? WOW 475M BARGAIN HUH? No. **** off. If you just stop buying, the sellers will freak out that it's crashing, sell to the buy orders, everything will drop like a stone, and we will enjoy a nice cheap PLEX again. The market is at a rather precipitous point right now and it won't take much to make the prices drop again. But panicking like retards won't do that.

Since everyone had 15 alts.