EVE General Discussion

I love how in these forums if you say, something is bad for a set of players, people automatically assume you are one of those players.

Now personally I wouldn't rat or run a mission, I can think of nothing more boring.

Now why inflation is bad for you.

Yes when you rent NPC slots for there laughable price, inflation is good for you but how about when you buy a BPO. Well say you want to buy a Battleship BPO and this equates to 100 hours mining for example, with inflation it means what took you 100 hours will take someone 95 hours or so next year (Assuming nothing else alters the supply/demand curve). So the value of your time purchasing that BPO is decreased and will continue to do so as time goes on.

How about office rent? Well as that is linked to the availability of offices and the amounts people are willing to pay, so as inflation decreases the worth of isk, prices will increase so you will pay more as time goes on so you are at no advantage here.

So your only real upside to inflation is the fixed NPC cost of slots, now this in itself is set completely wrong as it discourages players from setting out on their own and setting up their own, industry slots via a POS. In a game with a player driven economy it makes no sense to penalize players that have spent capital and taken a higher risk, as well as made them a larger member of the player community. Now this system might work if EvE was based on a socialist or communist structure, but eve is very much the capitalist system, so why do we allow a welfare system for those that choose not to work?

Increasing the cost of those slots will decrease inflation as well as give players the incentive to do other things in the game. Now a large number of players are happy sitting in a NPC corp and mining and manufacturing, I personally see no harm in this to the game as a whole, but I fell that those players should pay an equal share for the use of NPC facilities as a player that takes risk does, plus a small amount due to their risk mitigation.

inb4 goons wreck Jita again, and makes everything go **** expensive.

I believe that is what economists refer to as seasonally adjusted

If you believe an economist would say that, you must not read many economic forecasts

So what exactly do you want us to blow up/distroy now?

3 words:
remove drone poo

it's not even funny when people talk about eve like it is self sustained system, without involvement from game developers
How can someone not realize that game devs have TOOLS to change prices, and they will use them as they see fit.

It would be nice to have some sort of isk sink to go along with the isk faucet of bounties. L4's have LP rewards to act as an isk sink - but straight ratting doesn't have anything comparable.

Maybe cut down the amount of bounty paid and add faction LP to cover the difference. Not an inflation solution, but an inflation slower-downer.

Make faction ammo better in every way than T2

make purchase of faction ammo require T2 ammo insetad of T1

Grats, you jsut created an isk sink without making T2 production useless.

Somewhat true but you have "paths of least resistance" that are followed based upon the terrain.

Think of it more like driving a car - where the road goes, most drive and in the mountains, few will try and drive 'cross-country' with cliffs and towering walls. EVE player's income and expense areas are very much determined by game mechanics.

So yes on the player-driven side but the layout chosen for the paths makes a huge difference for how it can and does work.

"faucets" vs "wealth-transfer" with "sinks" is commonly explained and the balance between these areas is as much how the economy here progresses as anything else.

It's something handy to keep in mind with respect to such discussions. A broader view vs simply looking at it as "players". There are things CCP can do, mechanics wise, to help it out.

Three letters and two words:

CCP sells Plex.