Market Discussions

He doesn't play EVE so he is rather clueless about everything that goes on so he has nothing useful to add.
He can't even do his normal job anywhere near on time so if he gets distracted by the forums he'll never publish a qen ever again.

He's right though. He really does know even less about Eve and its markets and economy than the average poster in MD.

Plenty of people in MD to talk serious markets and economy. They have been a bit silent lately, maybe because people like the good doctor, or any other dev, seem to not give a serpentis rats arse about markets and economy..

I am as disgruntled as the above posters, but I would be fast to change my opinion if I was proven wrong..

Well this lack of interest in seriosu business trails all the way back to TTi and the days pre highway nerf, and the sudden limitation to market orders. Regardless of the reasoning, I find that if ccp will fix lag and server issues for everyone else, I dont see why they cant do the same for economy in the game.

Personally the shooty bang bang is not that impressive, compared to other games, its the p2p production, and markets that sets EVE appart from the other kids on the block. Getting praise in RL business news and having an economist hired specifically to work with ingame finance, that wont engage with the player base is just a bit sad..

Here is for hoping he will drop by and give voice and share ideas with this little corner of the game..

We know from the economic presentation video's he does read MD.

However I think perhaps he prefers the role of detached academic observer .

Our supply of BS likely out paces his demand to participate in it.

shut up libertarian you're even worse than the eve economist is

see why on earth wouldn't the economist want this sort of brilliant insight

Dr. E has many faults, but this is not one of them. He has been extremely consistent of the years pushing his two big ideas: 1) increasing isk sinks and reducing isk faucets, and 2) blowing stuff up. The problem is that he has been too hands-off on the rest of the economy because he wants to be laissez faire and doesn't realize that it is everything else that CCP does that screws things up. He should be more proactive and creative and work with the other devs and find ways to make the economy more dynamic and player driven instead of just letting them play god by replacing one bottleneck with another.

Dr. Eyijo is not a developer nor a game designer.
He's not super-duper top brass in the company, therefore his advices have just that much priority.

He has the most complex economy of any game to handle and this despite the various CCP developers screwing up with such economy all the time. Examples: bugs like the moon goo exploit patched after years, the reprocessable POS fiasco, introduction of drone poo, crappy incursions implementation, aggressive PLEX politics.

EvE is still standing on its feet despite all of this, which could have easily crushed any other MMO economy (usually every MMO economy crumbles after the first expansion).

As for the QEN etc, it was nice to see but in the end the various "CPI" and other "indicators" are as useful as they are in RL: they are made to "tip" and drive retail traders and smaller facilities without money to pay intern fundamental analysts into whatever.
Plus certain data were less than cool to share, i.e. how the same ships were consistently and totally predominant for years (lack of rebalance) and it'd be embarassing enough to share the actual inflaction drive we see every day.

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what would you actually *want* for him to say or ask for?

You can't ask him to have better market UI implemented as it's not in his powers to do so.
You can't ask him to share any data we don't already know, as it'd affect the market.
You can't ask him about inflation and stuff, as it's the game designers who implement inflation driving stuff and all he can do is to try and hedge it with counter-mechanics that the designers themselves can easily refuse (i.e. increase taxes).

Dr. EVE is currently busy with training the market xperts for the upcoming Dust514. Also his last whereabouts is Shanghai.

Besides that, he has no reason to dwell or chat in the forums.
He's the so called "Gray Cradinal", the power behind the throne on EVE economics and market, so there's bunch of lackeys to do the public communication on his behalf