Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Considering the diagram that was shown said "Bounties" were the biggest faucet and I used to make more off bounties then mission rewards at L4 missions in High Sec together they are probably the biggest.

Unless belt/anom bounties are about 70-80% of the "bounties" in total. In which case missions would be a close second.

YES bounties are the most important ISK faucet with a significance of 51% but is in a delicate situation, if you touch it all the player base will complain, while the 8.5% of the mission reward is a significant amount of ISK, and is in a spot that is easy to be tackled and removed withouth complain from the players as they will get LP instead of ISK, ending up reciving the same "Value" for the mission.

Small changes can shift a hazardous inflation to a hazardous deflation. Don't forget that the economy must grow as the player base grow.

My mission rewards have more or less stayed the same for quite some time. In fact, with the introduction of the wonderful 'scrap metal' my mission pay has gone down somewhat.

So, as inflation rises, I am in effect, taking a pay cut.


Do not buy PLEX and their cost become immaterial.

PLEX prices are an indicator of the Pay to Play vs Play to Play ratio.

It really has little to do with the overall amount of isk in the market, just how much of that isk is chasing PLEX to keep accounts active.

If the PLEX to keep your accounts active are costing you more isk, it means that you are competing with more people to get those PLEXes. For those more likely to buy PLEX with cash and sell them for isk a higher price is a good thing.

The issue with plex isn't so much an issue with there being too much isk in the economy, it's more of an issue of there being too few plex being sold. With each new feature CCP adds to the Plex system, the less plex are being sold and the more they are being used for said new feature. CCP keeps adding new functions to plex and thus making them more expensive for people who need to buy them.

These two comments are one in the same, but yet you give different answers for each.

You can run out of isk while flying around reguardless of whether you're being charged to jump through gates or not.

So, lets say you just got popped in the forge. While you're flying to jita you're buying a ship, fittings, and ammo.

So you spend all you isk on that ship, and when you get to Jita 4-4......You can't dock because you don't have isk...
How are you supposed to get anywhere in Eve? Once you ran out of money you'd be boned, and lets face it.
How many times as a noob have we all flown around mining/ratting/missioning and didn't have an isk to our name.

Well, you can't do anything if you can't dock... It would effectively be GAME OVER.....



Shut your stupid face.

lol, seriously though, reducing high sec beyond what they've reduced it to at this point will do nothing but reduce the amount of players in eve.
Not to mention is would take so much longer for anyone to get anywhere.
Hell, lots of null/low/wh players supplement their toon with a high sec toon/jump clone.

I'm pretty sure that CCP is well aware that reducing High sec anymore than they already have would be detrimental to their income.
So far in nerfing high sec they have
no more capitals in high sec, removed lvl 5 missions, reduced LP payout, removed agent quality which effectively did away with high quality agents, nerfed mission loot, nerfed drone loot, nerfed salvage, nerfed incursions, nerfed, nerfed, nerfed.

Anymore nerfing in high sec is just a terrible terrible idea.

Good Point.... Absolutely No to the Docking Tax then!!!!!

I was gonna toss out some numbers for how much isk it would cost per m3, but as I though deeper into this and began thinking of a frig transporting goods, I realized that it is impossible to determine whether the goods transported are trade goods, or if they're mearly personal goods being relocated. So, it wouldn't work.

Also, thid would kill regional and SOV trading, which is not a good thing by any means... everyone would just pile up in the forge region in order to get the best deals on items due to transport taxes increasing costs in other regions.

My thought was not actually an insurance, but rather a tax for having a POS in high sec, and less so a tax in low sec.(low sec would be cheaper).
This would help to add a negative aspect of having a POS in high sec where it is safe from capital assaults.
If a POS is constructed properly, they can be almost unstoppable in high sec... So, a monthly/weekly tax sounds fair for this luxury. It's similarto being in an NPC corp.


I'm actually a huge fan of Neural remaps as an isk dump.
Remove the free yearly remaps, then replace them with an isk dump neural remap that can only be performed every 3 or 6 months.
TONS of players would pay for this, expecially if you were allowed to remap more often than you can now.
I say a fair across the board costs of 500 mil.
Now, I've also fought with the consideration of a dynamic costs that increases as your SP increases, but there is a slight problem with dynamic costs because player like myself who has focused heavily on PVE would have a high remap costs for the sake of attempting to cross train towards pvp or industry.


Honestly, this would have no effect at all because players will simply move their manufacturing, or would begin manufacturing different ships that have no tax. Not to mention it could have a negative effect of reducing the availability of certain ships, AND would require quite a bit of programming for CCP in order to dictate this to production at a POS.


agreed


again, many players suppliment their low/null/wh/high sec war toons with toons in npc corps. So, in doing something of this nature you're essentially reducing the amount of pvp in Eve by reducing these players incomes.

Again though, just because I have a ship full of goods doesn't mean they're trade goods.

I could simply be relocating, or transporting items for my corp/alliance.

Also, you would effectively be forcing players to may more taxes on items they've already paid taxes on, and will have to pay more taxes on when they sell them, if they sell them.

This is the type of thing that kills international trading in the real world, and would probably have the same effect in game.