Crime & Punishment

Sure...market efficiency is when goods sell for the price where the supply and demand curves intersect. This means that goods should sell in a tight band around the natural price, with perhaps some premium to account for hauling to outlying areas. By actively buying and selling goods, I help stabilize prices, and create a more functional market.

I am a highsec ice miner and missionary. First i tried to seek adventures in EVE(as i knew from other games), but after the pve missions objectives repeated itself over and over i realized that EVE is about other things. It's about the community. And about ISK. Everything is about making money. It's a "War Economy" as Old Snake called it in Metal Gear Solid 4. I played that Game a lot and also watched the whole "8 hours" of cutscenes(at least. I counted it) more then i maybe should have.
And what i saw in New Eden, what i read in the forums, in the PHB (Pilotenhandbuch/Pilothandbook) of Donaldo Duck http://dd.1o1o1o.de/phbv3/ (300pages, afask only in german) and in the ingame chats reminded me of what was said in MGS4. Everything we do, mine, refine, produce, sell or buy keeps the war on going.
The few things i found, that are not useful for fighting other players or npcs like frozen food, water, soil, even different kinds of people you can buy and sell seem a bit worthless to me. What is sad, because i see potencial in it. But where is not, ey?
(The door will never open)

I don't like Code. I lost a few ships to you guys. I don't like bumpers. I also don't like afk miners and haulers and mining fleets with 20 skiffs(Even after the clear statement from CCP about the [miss]use of isboxer i tend to see them)

But i like, that you care about the game, and that you want everybody to be activ and aware. Maybe you would like mining better, if it where more like this. http://youtu.be/7iroudUFGFM I think i would. Maybe i am honoring the code by doing so. But i will never pay the 10 Mill. ISK you want. I consider this racketeering. And i will always warn my fellow miners when i see you or other known gankers in local or in the killboard of the region i mine in.

Btw. Code. is not the only strange content creator in the game. Did you heard of the "Goner Temple"? An Eve based religous corp about seeking the pass back to earth trough the EVE Gate.

Fly safe and explode with pride.

Ps. Sry 4 mi bat englisch.

It is in a world where nothing expires through natural means. Ships never get old. Modules never wear out. Not even abandoned Player Owned Starbases go bad. The only thing that is guaranteed to be destroyed (through usage) is ammunition, boosters, fuel, etc. Consumables.

The first statement is indeed correct. However, I never said anything about a crash in prices. Why? Because, destruction is still taking place at this very moment. Ships are still being destroyed. Modules are still being destroyed. Cargo is still being destroyed.

The second statement is also correct. The only thing an incursion runner tends to "destroy" on a regular basis is ammunition. In return they receive piles of liquid ISK (money) many times greater than the value of the ammunition (resource) they consumed and the value of the Loyalty Points (resource) they acquired. All of this is achieved through a form of Player vs. Environment gameplay that by this point has been optimized for maximum efficiency. Incursions indeed contribute to inflation.

Sure. The only way to deal with overproduction is to just print and throw more ISK at it. We can't simply remove the overabundance of product by blowing up ships, modules, fuel, cargo, etc. because it's "mean" and "not nice."

Actually i love my two maxed yield hulks. They make 3 pieces of ice every minute each. But i also have two skiffs in the orca for a quick change, wich can do 2 pieces in 50 seconds.

I don't know, if they ignore me or just cannot read my warning because afk. Happens too often.


I have an alt in the temple myself who joins the eternal Journey to the Eve Gate. Everyday i play i first log in there and use the Loginjump to come closer to it. Sometimes i got luck and make a big step (1Mill. km)in almost the right direction. We have reached 21.4 Au from the stargate a few days ago.

Could you give me an example of this "pointless inflation?"

In Eve the isk is eliminated through isk sinks(trading, implants, mission rewards).

Ultimately though it relies on stuff being destroyed.

I don't buy implants very often. Nore do people who do often pvp imo, because of podding. And how can mission rewards be isk sinks when they generate isk?

FTFY

He does have a measurable social impact, just not the one that he thinks or wants

Hah haven't seen Legend of the Overfiend or Legend of the Demon Womb in years, Doomed Megalopolis was pretty good too.

This thread is now about tentacle sex.