EVE General Discussion

soo inflation is prudy bad and mean old soundwave wants to reduce bounties on all npc's by 10%...

this is mainly because drone regions are loosing thier combat mining and getting bounties so expect inflation to get even worse if nothing is done...

so how does the community feel about this?

Personally i think if you want to reduce isk income why not make the npc's harder to kill and make them hit harder aswell? give them a modified sleeper a.i. that way you reduce isk per hour but keep bounties untouched? make npc's pod you in 0.0

or is it just simpler to reduce bounties? but i feel that reduction in bounties makes it like... ok old players who are already rich you get to stay rich but all those new players well tuff deal with it type of thing?

discuss....

reduce q20 l4s
remove concord from incursions

On a more serious note, I'd rather see them buff isk sinks.

MOAR TAXES.

what like if you want to take the nefarious superhighways you have to pay a tax eq to your ships mass? that way it would be cheaper to either stay in your region or try to be sneaky in low sec?

no I mean just go back to when there was a far smaller amount of Q20 L4 agents so ninja salvagers/suicide gankers/general guys who troll highsec bears have a lot easier time for it because they're all bunched up in a handful of systems

Assuming majority of generated ISK is from the spawnable sites in null, nerf Sanctums!

Oh wai... already tried that and null emo-raged until CCP backtracked, causing another spike in prices for everyone not botting/ratting in null.

Across the board, everywhere in Eve:
Half of existing ISK bounties to be "paid" in material goods. Alleviates some of the "Need more workers!" woes as miners are not exactly crawling out of the woodwork, makes sense that more stuff drops considering the PvP drop chances, easier to modify for CCP as items represent an indirect and market determined value thus people won't get insta-ulcers and have veins popping all over the place if/when tweaked.
Hell, mix it up why don't we .. Thar be Pirates! Have some drop 'treasure maps' infrequently (read: bookmarks) to whatever type of site the rat in question is associated with .. exploration by killing stuff, what is not to like
* Note: Sites should not be as good as actual exploration!

It's never solely about ISK faucets. Think about it: there are other types of faucets as well, such as mineral faucets, moon goo faucets, etc. What needs to be done is that all of these faucets become properly balanced against one another. This most likely entails a moderate nerf to high-sec incursions and null-sec anomalies, a slight boost to null-sec ratting (which at the same time nerfs botting, by making the money come from selling dropped tags from each rat for example), and a significant boost to all types of belt mining.

Getting rid of ISK generation entirely is deathly wrong.

you should read up on CCP Screegs' presentation on botting - 75% of bots are in highsec.
not that i'd expect a cva member to actually rat in their lousy space

What does CVA have to with anything?

You have a link to his stats, the only thing of his I can find is the useless "we are on it" blog with a picture of dried fish. At any rate, I'd reckon the high-sec bots are miners pumping out lowends whereas null bots are doing raw ISK .. damage to Eve from ISK bots is higher I think.

much higher wardec cost, no more griefing a corp for 2mil or alliance for 50mil
more taxes, this will also make market skills more useful.
nerfing vanguards a bit
more LP rewards in the LP stores<- these are great isk sinks
nerfing bounties across the board i don't mind a whole lot but i think it should be the last resort thing.