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Isk just ain't what it used to be
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The Djego
Hellequin Inc.
#41 - 2012-01-05 11:23:03 UTC  |  Edited by: The Djego
Othran wrote:
Professor Alphane wrote:
When I last played the game some 3 years ago, isk didn't flood out of wormholes, jump into highsec to be fleet ganked or spawn day and night on planets.

It was Isk, it was hard to come by.


It wasn't. It was staggeringly easy to come by compared to 2005.

I quit between 2005-2008 and when I came back isk flooded out of everywhere.

tl;dr been going on a long long time now, not going to change.......


Technically it was also easy to come by back in the days at least as I joined the game during RMR, however start up with a new char took longer with learning skills, the guides where worse and you had to find out more by yourself, you had to get BM sets and make your own, you didn't had quick to skill fail prove ships like the drake to go for, a lot less dps and tank plus a lot more problems to acquire items.

What really changed is that eve got a lot more streamlined over the years with stuff like the LP shops(back in the days you had to run for multiple corps, turn down missions and agent offers to get a exact LP amount for the offer you wanted and wait 1-2 days for the correct agent offer -> implants that actually payed you the decent isk) or the 0.0 anno/Incursion game play where you can rise and repeat just as much as you like without preparation or slowdowns like chaining belts or scanning down plexes etc.

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Rhastafan
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#42 - 2012-01-05 11:56:40 UTC
I dunno. My first taste of this game was a 2 week free trial in 2005 which I quit before the 2 weeks were up (personal things came up plus I found it tedious that I kept lagging and CTDing through a certain system that most of my missions (many of them courier as I recall) took me through. Then last year I started the game anew with a new character (I had forgotten the name and such of my old character from 2005).

So some months ago I got a notice from CCP on my other email (the one I don't use for games anymore) with a comeback offer for that old trial character I had from 2005 and it included the account name. I decided I could use an alt so I activated it (with a PLEX I had bought from the market of course) and started preparing to set it up for what I wanted to use it for.

First thing I did was assign all the free SPs I had (I had read up on learning skills back in the day and had put a lot of SP into them) and gave it 10 mil in cash expecting it would be poor and would need it for skillbooks and such. Next thing I did was liquidate all of its assets and much to my surprise I ended up with over 80 million. I have no clue how I managed to accumulate that much in under 2 weeks on a trial account, but it seems to me even back then ISK was easy to come by even for a n00b. I vaguely recall T2 being crazy expensive at the time, so I would say overall we have seen a lot of deflation overall (and yes, I do come from the department of redundancy department).
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