EVE General Discussion

You could, you know, just pay the £10 or $12 or whatever it is?

The means of making isk to buy plex have increase. Faction warfare, and the way incursions were both worked toward helping elevate plex to where they are now.

No no I don't and No it doesnt stay that at all.

Lets clear something, for what appears to be the one's that cant' read simple English

I am NOT someone who uses bots, I have NEVER been someone who uses bots and its NOT my intention to use them. They are illegal in the game and anyone who uses them should be expelled! Is that clear enough !!

If you have actually read my initial thread and my subsequent re-write and not just looked for a buzz word, you'll read I was asking about what I preceive to be the increase cost of plex to continue to play Eve.

There is a finite supply of PLEX into EVE. They're created by players buying Game Time Cards for real money, converting them into PLEX and selling them, not by CCP spawning them as many seem to assume (I hope you didn't assume that?)

So let's say that there are 10,000 PLEX per month created into EVE. Their ISK price will be at the level that the 10,000 richest characters owned by players who don't want to pay a subscription will pay. Now if it was easily viable for a character who engaged in low-level play in the safest area to raise this amount of surplus ISK, there would be many more than just 10,000 players who could pay that price. Given that pretty much everyone would like to play for free, then obviously the price will rise to the point where the number of people who can afford it equals the number of PLEX available.

Now recently (by which I mean comparitively recently from my perspective of playing for 6.5 years) CCP introduced a number of mechanics that made relatively small groups of players a vast amount of ISK via PvE methods; there was the POS mods & mechanical parts screwup when Planetary Interaction was introduced, there was the technetium bottleneck when moon minerals were rebalanced, then Incursions until they were rebalanced, and then the Faction Warfare wealth fountain last summer. Each of these events created a large pool of extremely wealthy players who, naturally, used their in game wealth to pay for their accounts. You're making maybe 20-30M an hour at most doing level 3 missions, but you're competing against people who merrily farmed up 200M per hour or more running FW plexes all summer. So of course PLEX seem expensive to you.

I just bought one for 530 they're pretty cheap at the moment. just wait until the next power of 2 deal...

if you don't want to be at the mercy of the market you need to get some coin to rub together and buy it up when prices are depressed.

So stop wasting loads of your time grinding and just pay for your subscription?

For once I agree with a Goon.

OP, listen to this man.

Be happy that CCP give you the option to grind ISK and buy PLEX to suit your cheapo lifestyle. You could also avoid grinding and enjoy the fun aspects of the game more by just paying a small $$ fee each month for this subscription base space ship MMO. And if you do you also help others with cheapo lifestyles by lowering demands and bringing down the in-game price of PLEX.

It is your choice. You life. Your money. Spend them where they matter.

Easy solutions.

1.) Don't waste your time with mining, but instead actually play the game instead of watching por... youtube.
1a.) I *know* that you're mining mostly afk, because it takes the least effort and you can do other stuff while doing it.
1aa.) How do i know ? Because you're indirectly admitting it! Congratulations, genius !

2.) Get a ******* job.

Do you have any idea how big the target is you have painted onto yourself ? The amount of ISK you'll lose
because of this thread will make you UNSUB (byeeee!!! *waves*) because of your soon-to-be-had losses !

Well done, genius !

edit: You're not helping against my insane headache !