EVE General Discussion

That's not particularly significant, since it did that a month ago, and you don't seem to be mentioning anything dropping since. If it had been 2 days ago, then yes, that would be something.

The issue is actually that FW players are controlling the stream of LP items into the economy by selectively trading LP for items of higher value each time. When the market sees a lot of one item, they move to another to avoid overloading the market, and there are a lot of FW items to do this with between the 4 factions.

That's purely speculation of course, but it is the sensible thing to do under the circumstances. The only issue would be organization, but merchandising players will select based on value and market abundance anyway, so it fixes itself. Obviously, if I were to cash in some, (fictitious*), LP, I would check the market first to see what has less competition but sells for a good price.

*I've actually only earned 1300 or so LP doing 1 mission as I'm not overly motivated to gain unbelievable amounts of ISK. Go figure.

The other thing you'll not see happening generally, is players who stockpile FW items for when the market drops in supply, and especially, for after FW gets nerfed into the ground, as is sure to happen eventually. Probably won't be long actually. This is why I decided to join now, and I'm not honestly sure whether I got weeks or months to make a bit of ISK.

Might as well cash in if I can motivate myself to do it for a bit. Even a billion or two would be nice. Maybe tomorrow says the procrastinator in me, but who knows, it may be gone in a hotfix by tomorrow. I doubt it honestly. EVE Devs don't seem to make a rush of fixing things that will only temporarily impact the economy as this does. So a few people will make tons of ISK; it's not really a huge concern in my opinion.

Spread the wealth around; why not. It's not like other players haven't been finding ways to do the same thing themselves. The relatively recent development of web-based casinos that move trillions of ISK around for example. Or the scams in Jita, or Ganking Officer fit ships, or whatever. It all changes hands one way or another and it's just ISK.

implants are pretty ****** as well. LP in general is worth nothing to what it was even 3-4 months ago.

There are two things that show us that it isn't obviously broken and in need of fixing:

1) People other than goons are doing it. Therefore it is clearly okay, if just goons were doing it then it would be an exploit and would be emergency patched.
2) It has no affect on incursion runners or miners. These are apparently the two primary groups of players whose gameplay must not be affected by anything another player does, but this doesn't affect them at all, so obviously no change is needed.

Nah, fixing speed tanking only fixes part of the problem. The major problem is the warzone control modifiers that tip the playing field in FW's favor. I could make as much or more LP blitzing normal missions in a 0.5 sec system than I could by orbiting a button, but FW LP under Tier 5 is worth a heck of a lot more than any other corps LP.

BUT, last I heard anyway, they're changing the Tiers to only affect how much LP is paid out and getting rid of the LP shop price reductions. I don't know if the new Tier mechanics will effect missions or not (I don't think they will, but that's speculation on my part), but at least the playing field will be level again as the LP store prices will be on par with non-fw LP stores.

Lolmad. FW makes its players far more money than the above do, in a solo, risk-free manner. That's broken.

I'm saying this as someone who is in FW. In fact, I'm just tired of the gunless plexing frigates everywhere.

As would I, but believing something doesn't make it true. See: Minmatar FW people having Amarr farming alt corps.

This would imply that goons don't use alts to milk FW. Which I'm guessing they do.

Honour.

To much effort. Plus my alts are usually in the same militia as me or neutral. FW is very spai paranoid.