EVE General Discussion

Boosters would be a nice ISK sink if it were worth more to everyday pilots... Like say, removals/nerf of side effects. Going to run a sanctum by yourself? Or maybe even a 10/10... use an improved blue pill!

I'd say that boosters will create a way to gain a short advantage for a while. To many that would be worth a lot of it lets you do things that you'd otherwise just barely fail at.

With the simplification of POS fuel, improvement of radar exploration sites, one could imagine more booster manufacturers setting up shop! I know I am!

One thing that would be cool is if one could put their corporations name of the booster so that when it is sold, people know which corporation made it. In fact, this should happen to ALL manufactured goods. This would make public opinion matter to mega alliances in null. Imagine boycotts happening against people's product in highsec.

Corporation Product Branding should be in the next big expansion! Oh, man that would be cool!

Well, how do real world insurance companies manage to make money then? Maybe insurance doesn't make profit at the current rates in Eve but if it were player run they would adjust to an appropriate level where people could make some small level of income I think.

Edit: The hell is wrong with Eve gate today?

a ccp run lottery.. think about it this is a good one.

If an aggroed logistics ship wants to dock in high sec space, they must pay 100 mil docking fee.

This is an isk sink and a deterrent to neutral RR. Two birds with one stone.

Remove Insurance.

Love both ideas, how about remove Jump Clone timer and make it 10 m isk per jump?

Some of these tax ideas (like docking fees) seem regressive in that they would probably disproportionately affect the people with the least amount of disposable ISK.

Also, if incomes are rising everywhere more or less equally, then inflation isn't a big deal. But if isk is being spread about inefficiently, and especially if that inefficiency is causing problems for newer/poorer capsuleers then CCP would have to look at where the ISK is going and then figure out a way to encourage a better distribution.

You make no sense here. Pointing out that people who continue to believe something in the absence of supporting evidence are are idiots is not the same as saying your assertion is wrong because you are an idiot.

Important distinction that determines whether a personal attack actually constitutes a logical fallacy. Saying someone is an idiot for believing something foolish is not an ad hom.

You haven't offered any actual evidence supporting the proposition that there is inflation in the EVE economy, you've offered some rationalizations for why it hasn't manifested but you haven't actually provided evidence that it is actually in existence. This is just like all the real world economists of the Chicago school (you know the one EVE's economist belongs to) who've been harping for years about the threat of run away inflation as a result of quantitative easing. Those with a clue pointed out how such inflation should not be expected and thus far that's what reality has shown us.



This discussion has been had before. The fact is he's supplied very limited data. An increase in the isk supply does not automatically result in inflation. Even beyond the question of population growth versus isk accumulation there is the matter of an increased consumption and earning rate as players advance in skill and can start operating more expensive craft.

Basically the lack of inflation as a result of this increase in the isk supply tells us that there is likely a shortage of ISK relative to the over all economy to begin with as such further restrictions on said supply have a greater potential of being disruptive than positive.

You know what's worse that inflation from a monetary standpoint? Deflation, make isk more difficult to acquire and that's the path you are moving on.



Once again show me the evidence. Don't give me rationalizations of why the evidence isn't visible show me some actual concrete evidence that inflation exists.

I'm telling you right now you won't find it. you won't find it because the nature of how MMO economics works will prevent it from manifesting.

Let me reiterate ISK is not currency in the traditional sense, It's simply one more commodity that people harvest. We could just as easily decided to use trit as an exchange medium and the economy would operated precisely the same as it does now.


ISK supply is self regulating. If inflation devalues isk then people will change activities. Sure not everyone will shift activities due to fluctuations in isk value but if the value shifts sufficiently then enough people will shift activities to balance things out.

This is why we've not seen any evidence of inflation, this is why we won't see any evidence of inflation no matter how many appeals to authority you make.

I like it. Of course now we have people clone jumping all over the place...but...I would rather deal with that then the alternative.