EVE General Discussion

There will always be inflation in EVE, unless there are enough money sinks that isk exits the game at the same rate that it enters. Clearly, this is a horrible idea, so we'll have to get used to an ever-increasing level of inflation.

CCP did an absolutely braindead move and tried to curb inflation by reducing income from bounties. All this does is punish players who have no money, and reward players who already have large reserves of wealth. What will they do when time wears on and the cracks continue to show? Cut bounties to 10%? 1%?

Instead, what CCP should be doing is increase the money rewarded from missions and bounties and increase the money sinks as well so the large reserves of wealth are no longer afflicting the economy as much. After all, what's worse for the economy? A player who makes 10 million isk/day by farming bounties and has 1 bil in the bank; or the alliance that makes 1 trillion isk/month farming moons and has 100 tril in the bank?

Cut from the top, not the bottom. It is both the most sensible and fair way to fix inflation, and the only effective way in the long run.

Whenever the economy is ****** up by someone making massive amounts of money, like how CCP ****** up with Moons and Incursions, CCP should just adjust the NPCs to allow the other players to catch up. By adjusting NPCs (how much they give and take) CCP can control the economy to get it back to normal so people will never have to (say) grind for a month straight to get a tech 1 ship. The effect this will have is that massive reservoirs of wealth become less valuable (but subtly so). Assuming CCP keeps adjusting the NPCs each year, they can prevent the economy from turning all wonky, assuming they don't screw it up again with another massive isk faucet.

People would start investing in solid assets, but since the minerals are being inflated too, it won't really make much of a difference (and CCP can increase ship construction costs as well if necessary).

They give certain power blocs a complete chokehold on the economy and the ability to build up massive reservoirs of wealth.

Not exactly inflation, but still flawed.

Sometimes the best solution is the easiest: Delete all the Isk!

The fix is to just stfu... or put a wallet cap... or taxs that scale with isk...

You have people now who have massive isk... and can use it to make TONS more and hold onto it and you have newer players or players who don't have as much time... who get screwed... so the guy running 10 accounts.... making massive isk... nerfing what he does only hurts the player with 1 account or 2...

Yes I know some is injecting isk and some is just moving it around but you need to look at it ALL... all these nerfs do are hurt the players who need isk.

If you look carefully at data you will see that you are wrong. For most of EVEs existence there has actually been deflation and not inflation. Also, money entering the economy is not, perhaps, the biggest factor in a game like EVE. At least, there is no truth to the myth that the size of sinks should equal the size of faucets (I let you try to figure out why). Instead, velocity of money seems to be more important. You can check it all out in this devblog by CCP Recurve.

I've never really seen much inflation in the long run, only fluctuation in prices. The current inflation in mineral prices will pass as the players adjust, as they always have. CCP knows exactly how much ISK is in the game per capita at any given time, and can adjust the market tax rate and contract fees to keep it fairly steady. They do a good job in the long term, but should not mess with short term variations.

Besides, one of the biggest ISK sinks in the game is not under their control. If you think about it, you will figure out where much of the ISK leaves the game. Hint: It can come back in at any time.

So your mad that they cut your massive isk income from risk free L4 missions? thats a good thing, there should be less money to make in highsec. Plus you cant compare single players farming missions or ratting to the Tech holding alliances. For a start the money going to the single player is per person (and they make alot more than 10mill per day i used to make that in 30mins just ratting 0.0 belts alot more in L4 missions or complexs) where as the alliance income is going to an alliance or prehaps 1000 people. Plus you seem to think they are hording the ISK they get from tech, and dont have to pay sov bills, alliance bill, ship replacement funds, titans, supercarriers, POS fuel for 100s of POS's and Jump Bridges. It aint cheap

And again, no new isk enters the game from tech. a product enters the game, same as mining, that is then sold for isk that other players already brought into the game. If you really wanna **** with 0.0 tech income get all of highsec to stop buying it maybe? Of course Tech makes so much money because people need it...so you'd push tech prices down but the price of lots of other things up. And you'd need to organise all of highsec (where most tech is sold) and looking at the CSM that aint going to happen

CCP already addressed the issue of mineral inflation, and we've already seen the effects of that on the economy. I'd rather see a deflated economy than an inflated one. If there was no isk inflation, then CCP should have never made any changes to begin with.

gank a miner things tend to go up :)

like threads like this every year during goon month lol

infation will chill in afew months after the miners recoop there losses lol


me and my 5 accounts don't mine during this heck rare to log in but to skill change

and I am sure there is a few more out there doing the same..


oh and btw have been ganked 0 times this way lol