EVE General Discussion

The short answer to this primarily I imagine is that whatever the equaivalent model for GDP of each EvE player is larger than the associated taxation involved in the economy. This is to allow the purchase/payment or use of products and services.

How this then works in the reality of EvE that bounties are funded creates an interesting question of course and not something I've tried to find out in the lore how governments/factions etc fund the SCC or pay for faction mission rewards etc. Of course the lore affords for income from planets and the New Eden population not associated with capsuleer money or the EvE economy as we understand it, so its perfectly possible for it to be funded.

If I understand your idea correctly, you don't want any new isk creation. There's no way this would work. Older players will acquire more isk to buy bigger and bigger things. I have ~16b sitting around my hangers and it grows all the time. I buy new ships to pvp with and I buy them faster than I lose them. New players would be competing with people like me for the limited supply of isk.

Then I stop playing the game (I'm never really going to stop, but lets say I do). Now I have ~16+b sitting around my hangers that nobody can access, it's removed from the limited pool the economy has.

not currently today, no. but i sure have plenty in the past. just look at my gallente standings.

as for isk being removed locked away when older players quit or otherwise stockpiled, there's still a roughly consistent number of people out there ratting, missioning and god knows we all use the market and LP stores all the time, as well as highsec PI tax too.

so, it seems ot me, there's a constant flow of isk "in" to the eve "government" via pi tax (not player owned customs offices tax, but highsec or interbus owned) market taxes, manufacturing fees, lp store purchases, contract fees, and so on. there is also the consistent "out" from the "governments" in the form of bounties, mission rewards, incursion bounties, etc.

thus there's a constant in and out flow of isk already. it seems to me all we'd have to do is adjust these to be roughly equal and balanced (which would of course need to be done dynamically) and, even that was simply impossible, have a fixed markup on the outgoing payments to compensate. as i see it, this would force an overall balancing of the economy, in time at least. god knows it'd be a clusterfrak at first.

taxes and lp store prices and other concord/empire fees would have to be relatively dynamic, say monthly, quarterly, whatever. bounties and other outgoing isk would be similarly dynamic, raising or lowering depending o nthe availble pool of tax income to be used for payments. because of this the exact mission reward in isk would be different over time from each time you run it (depending how often the rates were adjusted.) but in comparison to other missions and sources of isk creation, all would be in balance.

in short, no more fixed taxes or fees for anything, and no more fixed bounties or isk reward either. wouldn't it be better ot have these values dynmaically changing based on several factors like how popular they are (incursions getting ran all the time? well, at the next adjustment the isk payments would be reduced.) in addition to availbe isk to make payments.