Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The chinese servers are also inundated with bots leading to dramatic inflation. Trying to draw any comparisons between the two is flawed from the beginning.

As for 10 billion being filthy rich... Maybe 7 or 8 years ago.

#5 is interesting. Of course we knew the ECB monitored for abnormal price fluctuations in order to maintain stability. However, monitoring the subscription rate in order to determine the need for an intervention is new, and a bit odd. Stability is one thing, but one would think that subscriptions is a longer-term lagging indicator.

PLEXing an account isn't an isk sink, all what happens is you move isk between players using the in-game market.

For the same reason skins on the in-game market are not an isk sink.

Buying Aurum from CCP and buying skins from the shop to use yourself isn't an isk sink as there's no isk involved.



Edit:

In regards to your edit, removing it from the game is what an isk sink would do.

For instance if you could buy items from the shop with isk then the items you purchased would be an isk sink. See my edit on post #32 for why we don't use isk in the shop.

This idea has my support. I have argued in favor of similar idea myself in the past in these very same forums: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4808411#post4808411

Although doe to the age of that thread it has been automatically locked by now.

Edit: I should perhaps clarify a bit that what I was (and still think is the best idea) is breaking the PLEX into more granular pieces. Exact size is not that important, be it then 1d "tokens" or some greater amount of say, 5 or 10 or 3 days. After all one can divide 30 in a number of different ways.

As it stands PLEX is basically the "gold standard" in EVE - higher granularity would just mean being able to chop the bar of gold into smaller chunks. Nuances of the idea have been discussed in the linked thread, which is, in essence, in my opinion similar enough to the ideas presented here.

When CCP were talked about the removal of clone costs and the associated isk sink they said then (just after Cruis, I think it was a post by Fozzie but can't recall) that the isk being removed from the economy by the increase in Industry jobs and job costs was more or less balancing the removal of clone costs.

I still think PLEX needs to be removed from the game entirely and Aurum should become the defacto standard currency for anything related to purchasing game services or micro-transactions. There's no real reason to have these two currency's living besides one another, and Aurum would make it much easier to manage IMO. Instead of paying for a month at a time, players could use Aurum to buy a week or two weeks at a time.

I completely agree with this. NPC's should not pay out bounties. Instead, like the Empire Faction NPC's, they should drop tags, which then can be traded or redeemed for ISK. That collection and transportation time sink directly results in a decreased ISK/hour and more risk, which is a good thing.

One idea is making rat availability rely on local markets. How deep this is set is optional, but the most minimal design is just their showing up on a fulfillment (like an ISK value for items on the market.. or just sales). A more depthy version is that those market items are removed from the market for their fleets, with the minimal (or somewhat better) drop chance (maybe even that of PvP). This produces a net negative for all items that are produced and makes plenty of room for improving the QOL of industry niches (gameplay, reduced SP, etc.). They could only buy up a certain meta of modules, or only what is required for developing their versions, et al. There are obviously statistics on ratting, and getting a few infographs is a neat idea.

"But that's more ISK generation if those items are purchased." Technically, they could get loot from LP store purchases, taxes, percentages of ship values lost through PvE; or the ISK made from industry could balance out a reduced bounty meta. The dynamism also sets up sets up a competitive null.

On QOL, there are roles that ships could fill, for fleets that would require the hauling space, while "raiding" NPC locations.. as well as anything that reduces the necessity of AFK mining, like "dropping/constructing a mining probe" and fulfilling other roles in the system -- plausibly also construction.

Oh my, that would increase the importance of tight-nit Incursion fleets that fairly distribute tags at the end of a session, and really slow the isk/hr during all that newly-necessary tag trading. Please, no. RL happens and players come and go from these fleets all the time; automatic isk payment has got to be a major facilitator of casually joining and leaving.

New redemption tags could lead to new highsec gate-camping by Catalyst swarms, performing "taxation duties" around Incursion systems, with renewed interest in looking for blinged battleships (and logi ships: lower EHP,) some potentially carrying a billion worth of these new tags, when they quit for the day and head toward a cash-out station.

To be honest, I was not thinking of that in Incursions - only for mission, anomalies, belts, etc. Incursions should just be straight up removed and replaced with something else. But that is a whole different kettle of fish.