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ISK for real money...
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Jenn Makanen
Doomheim
#21 - 2011-11-22 21:47:49 UTC
Telegram Sam wrote:
Ships and fittings that are destroyed in PVE and PVP are isk that are vaporized. They're gone and they're not coming back into the game economy.



bzzzzt, wrong. Common misconception though.

They're goods being destroyed, not ISK. The ISK is happily sitting in the wallets of the people you bought the ships from.

In fact, with insurance, you just introduced a little more isk into the game. (unless you keep the ship for many many months, buying plantinum insurance every 12 weeks) so, there is more money, and fewer goods. Hence, prices go up.
Martyr Theos
The NecroMonger Faith
#22 - 2011-11-23 03:08:53 UTC
Torthur Thellere wrote:
Hi there,

I've started to play Eve few days ago, and I love it!
It's huge, has no limits and the audio/visual is nice.

So I decided to subscribe.

But then I've started to have doubts. As far, as I know you can buy PLEX for real money and then sell it for ISK. Isn't that spoiling the game economy? I've some bad experiences with other MMO's with that solution. Prices started to get crazy in short time.

Please tell me, that I'm wrong...:)

P.S.
And what the AUR currency is?



Yes it ruins it because it is 'Pay to Win", but CCP has no solution for this because they have no talent in the game design department.

Yes you are wasting your time here.
Martyr Theos
The NecroMonger Faith
#23 - 2011-11-23 03:11:47 UTC
malaire wrote:
Also, because of supply & demand it is not possible to get infinite amount of ISK by selling PLEX. PLEX is only worth what others are willing to pay for it, and if many players start buying a lot of PLEX with real money and selling them for ISK, price of PLEX in ISK will drop because supply is greater than demand. (This has happened few times when CCP made PLEX-ads which caused more PLEX to be bought with real money.)

About AUR: AUR is separate ingame currency for NeX (Noble Exchange) shop which sells vanity items like clothes. You can exchange 1 PLEX for 3500 AUR. Price of items varies from 1000 AUR to 12000 AUR, so for new players they are far too expensive to even consider buying. Also, CCP is going to give some free AUR soon to all accounts (3rd and 4th reward from http://www.eveisreal.net/#!/sharing-rewards/) so if you do want something from NeX you might want to wait for that.

Note: I don't know if that free AUR is given also to trial accounts or only to paying accounts.


You will note that PLEX prices have increased recently for the very reason you highlight, that being that many are quitting Eve and no longer buying PLEX. Instead they are spending down wallet isk on PLEX, driving the prices up. So yes you can surmise that Eve is on it's last leg.
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