EVE General Discussion

In terms of pirate BS being cheaper thats due to people farming guristas, angel, serpentis creating a larger supply than demand. Rattlesnakes are so cheap due to goons farming the hell out of their space. Same applies to mach, nightmare, vindi etc for the respective alliances/groups farming the sites/DED.

I seem to remember PLEX being around 300mil back in '09 - '10.

Am I crazy, or is that accurate?

EDIT: Maybe that was the price of an Orca

and it all starts over again...

a:"plex is so freaking high, I have to grind isk all day", b: "get a real job"
a:"no im going to quit, because you are soo mean to me" b:"bye, can I have your stuff"
c:"but why are plex prices so high right now? " d:"because we have a lot of isk sources and no isk sinks in the game, so we have inflation" e: "its also a currency problem and less people selling plex, because they already get so much isk out of one plex"

....you know the game

Edit: Source: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=451209&find=unread

Only 995,000 years to go then.

"when we played we didn't HAVE capitals" /shakes cane.

damn PLEX got damn HIGH

The game is riddled with market bots. Management wants US to catch them, apparently. Some bots are being run from suspicious precincts, though. SO. Maybe they've cut down the mining bots, just remember there's a huge HOWEVER on this subject.

PLEX prices rose mainly 'cause people selling them saw people would still pay those prices. As I've said, boycott them and they'll bring the prices down. No in-game mechanic drives this, i.e., it's not due to inflation. Of course, nobody's going to boycott them, which is why they charge so much - with impunity. They musta been right.

I think you should double-check that math...

When I started playing in the late 1880s, there was no PLEX. We had to drive to Iceland every month and sacrifice a baby at the EvE monument to get to play for another month. This was a little difficult because cars had just been invented, and they couldn't drive on water yet, so you basically had to get out and push when you got to the big watery thing. Ocean. Whatever you kids call it.

The second thing that was a challenge was getting laid enough to keep a steady supply of babies. One per month took a lot of effort, and admitting that you played EvE back then was just as much of a **** block as it is now.

What you whippersnappers don't realize is that PLEX was a massive humanitarian effort on the part of CCP. They single-handedly lowered infant mortality rates around the world from awful to less awful when they started accepting PLEX in lieu of babies.

But all good things have unintended consequences. And here we are letting all these kids stay alive, and what happened? They are all the whiney little brat-bastards constantly trying to get this game dumbed down.

Basically, EvE's biggest problem is babies. If we just get rid of the babies, the game will be fine.

I remember when CCP used to be an honorable company, worthy of its players loyalty... the good 'ol days.