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Jita: Live Market Update - Skill Injector Prices Crashing
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Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#201 - 2016-02-15 18:22:46 UTC
Aiwha wrote:
An ISK sink would be if CCP required you to pay isk in order to initially acquire the extractors.




Think of the entire EVE economy as one big wallet. Things like ratting ticks put money into the wallet, things like skillbook purchases from NPC corps take money out of it. Anything player>player however just moves money around inside the wallet.


The buy/sell frenzy might have created a slight blip of sink because of sales tax. A really small one.
Teckos Pech
Hogyoku
Goonswarm Federation
#202 - 2016-02-15 19:35:37 UTC
Dr Mibbles wrote:
Barrett Fruitcake wrote:
Yep, ISK sinks are when ISK is paid to a non-player and it simply dis-appears from the game.
ISK faucets are when ISK is created out of thing air like ratting and mission bounties and rewards.

Anything else is wealth redistribution within the game, like moon goo or minerals. Though, moon goo allowed for insane amounts of wealth redistribution to the very few while normal mining did not. But that's another topic.



Spot on.

Skill Injectors are a great redistribution of wealth, as they finally give players who 'have it all' something to waste their vast ISK reserves on. I'm not sure what EVE's gini coefficient is, but I'm betting that it's pretty shocking.


There are taxes and fees as well.

I'm wondering if the wealth redistribution will have any effect on the rate of inflation if the velocity of ISK picks up.

"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."--Friedrich August von Hayek

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Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#203 - 2016-02-15 20:03:16 UTC
My inclination would be to take anything a market guru says right before biomassing himself with a grain of salt.

Mr Epeen Cool