EVE General Discussion

…except that it's not the individual level that is interesting — it's the larger picture (the entire bath tub), and that the devs most certainly can control the spigots and drains (in fact, I'd say that the one thing they can't control is the size of the bath tub… well, not directly at least — they can accidentally knock it all over and put a huge volume-consuming dent in it like they did last spring and summer). The drains, in particular, are quite hard to avoid for the individual.

They've done it before; they can do it again; and in this particular instance, they did it in a less than clever way.

We have infinite supplies of minerals, missions, and other goodies with the only limit on collecting them being time. We have something that is almost but not quite a post scarcity economy. Thus everyone is rich :)

You have now failed at extending an analogy - that you embraced.

The whole point of this thread is that most of the individual parts change in the same direction you get new results. The individual results matter when they start being similar to one another.

The player bases psychology and competency has changed over time.


On a speculative side note perhaps Incarna and its aftermath are part of the reason for a change in psychology. I not going to try to figure mass psycology out.
But I know that personally I ended up playing the game differently over the last year than I did before with out really intending to. I play less but more efficiently. My net value went up while losses went to practically 0.
I am playing the game for free, I guess Im to disinterested to bother fighting anyone, but Im still earning some income for some irrational reason, probably hoping Ill want something eventually.

Im not suggesting other people are following my unplanned path and motivations, but we are all better at playing the game than we used to be so it stands to reason well all make more money.

Considering that the creation of isk in the economy (faucets) was already balanced to the point of being only slightly faster than the isk was being drained out via taxes, buying clones, ect... adding about 25% more creation rate via incursions was a terribly bad idea by itself. On top of that, they are too low risk for the reward. They should be toned down regardless of inflation rates.

The upside, though, is that it's isk generation that can't be automated by macrotard bots all the live long day. This, I am in favor of. Now, if they were to decrease the rate at which isk could be generated via bot-able activities in an equal magnitude of incursions isk creation rate then we'd have a great shift of income from botters to players who aren't cheating. This would be great, though only a single step in the right direction. The botters would likely just start up more mining bots - but at least those aren't pumping isk into the economy.