These forums have been archived and are now read-only.

The new forums are live and can be found at https://forums.eveonline.com/

Assembly Hall

 
  • Topic is locked indefinitely.
 

[Proposal] Reduce Mineral Build Costs for subcapital ships
Author
Previous Topic Next Topic
Horatio Nately
808 Enterprises
#1 - 2015-09-05 23:06:51 UTC
Lower the cost to build subcapital ships, thereby eventually making subcapital ships more affordable to new & old players. The current price points of ships are becoming a perceived barrier of risk aversion that is keeping many people on a 'play it safe' mentality as they are not to keen to lose the battleship they may have saved the last month for.

5 years ago you could have a Dominix for under 60 million Jita going rate. Today that price is just under 200.

Cheaper ships -> more fights -> more content.
Danika Princip
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#2 - 2015-09-06 19:08:51 UTC
So...crater the mineral prices, thus making it harder to earn the money by mining and industry, thus pushing people out of those roles and thus pushing the ship prices back up again?

The 60mil domis were a result of bot mining and done poop. They removed the later and have done a number of mass bans on the former. Do you really think they're going to undo all the work?

(Hell, they only just increased the mineral costs, didn't they?)
Lerner
#3 - 2015-09-07 01:49:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Lerner
Danika Princip wrote:
So...crater the mineral prices, thus making it harder to earn the money by mining and industry, thus pushing people out of those roles and thus pushing the ship prices back up again?

The 60mil domis were a result of bot mining and done poop. They removed the later and have done a number of mass bans on the former. Do you really think they're going to undo all the work?

(Hell, they only just increased the mineral costs, didn't they?)




I can tell you now prices on BC's and especially BS's are way over their worth. from 2004 to... at least 2010 prices pretty much stayed around 45 to 70 million isk for a scorpian. Don't throw bots up as a reason for price spike. Especially considering in the beginning when there was no...... mining barges or mine forman links to boost production. By all accounts they should have gotten cheaper not more expensive.

It took a good week+ with a mining crew of about 4 to 5 people to build 1..... I, repeat 1..... Apoc. To which the cost was around 110 to 140 mill isk. So do not come on here spouting bots were the reason of them being cheap!!