EVE General Discussion

Peanuts. I hope the price keeps going up and I haven't bought a plex in over 2 years.

There are three ways you lower plex prices:

1) Take your mom's/dad's/your CC, go to amazon, ccpgames, whatever, buy a bunch of plex, and put them on the market at a price lower then jita, and keep doing this. You will force the prices to drop as no one will buy the high ones if you keep pumping out 250m isk for a plex.

don't like that idea? Then

2) Buy all the plex on the market, and then resell it for a loss.

Don't like that idea?

3) Convince other players to either stop buying plex, or sell more plex.

Don't want to do that?

Then stop whining.

I can make the isk to plex a single account in 2 hours. That's it.. 2 hours. Maybe 3.

Get a tengu, go to a c3 wh, and kill amons. If you do it right you can kill an anom every 10 min. That nets you - nanoribbons about 45m per anom. 10/60 = 6 6*45 = 270m isk 270 * 3 = 810m isk. You are just short a little bit. If you get any nano riboons then you are golden.

3 hours of work, all done.

As someone who plex's his accounts I can say with almost absolute certainty that if the price of plex continues to rise it will force me out of playing the game.

That's roughly minimum wage in the UNited States right now, if you assume that when he said a couple he literally meant two.

That's right folks, a teenager working fast food can afford to sub their accounts instead of plexing them. What's your excuse?

In the UK the minimum wage for those over 18 but under 21 is £5.13 p/h, approx $8. The minimum wage for those over 21 is £6.50, approx $10. About 6% of UK employees are minimum wage employees, mostly in the retail and leisure sectors.

$15, or the equivalent in £, for a couple of hours work on minimum wage is about right by the time the government has had their chunk.

It's much worse elsewhere.

It's a little more complicated than that but that's the right idea. The supply of
plex on the market and stored for trade later vs the number of buyers determines the rise and fall of the price. These numbers are impacted by the number of people using plex to buy isk against the total number of folk playing the game at any given time.

Too short a time window.

Here's a quote from an older post that covers the topic a bit better


That's what someone went out and dug up 4 months ago: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4750984#post4750984

GRRR U R 2 MUTCH RIET!!!

This...if you are making minimum wage, you should spend time volunteering/studying/training to find a better job instead of spending time playing video games.

to the OP go watch the fan fest economics panel video on you tube , to the "why should CCP care" / player driven economy posters please do the same.

tl/dnw
while what the CSM dude said is true that is not the whole picture ,while it is true that CCP does not care what the actual PLEX price is. when that price spiked a few months back it got their attention not because they were worried about negative effects of said price on the game (plex transactions are neutral to the economy) but because the spike its self was symptomatic of massive in game inflation.
at that point CCP did EXACTLY what you all claim they are not going to do now, IE. the EVE central bank stepped in and seeded PLEX directly in to the market to suppress the price. according to CCPs head economist this was a temporary measure that they did not like doing and all the details are hush hush , but this what caused the price to level off for the last couple of months.
IMO CCPs intervention has run its course and the price is now being allowed to seek its own level.


source: EVE fan fest economics panel video on you tube.