Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Due to the NPC station Tax change coming in the Citadel expansion, the amount of isk you get from selling blue loot drops drastically. its around 1% now, but later it will be 6-7%. The isk you get from a Core Garrison will drop from 250 mil to about 230 mil.

For example, a sleepless Upholder drops 9.3 mil isk worth of blue loot, with this change, the blue loot gets removed and a 9.3 mil isk bounty is placed on that NPC. With this in mind, it would also be great to place bountys on the sentrys, as they dont give anything.


With this change, the income in Wormholes still remains the same even with the NPC tax nerf

Turning down the tap on one of the isk faucets is a good thing. Now they just need to apply that to the other major isk faucets.

I concur and suggest hijacking this thread for this idea instead of op's. The only place bounties make serious sense is in high sec, maybe low. These are legit territories that want bad individuals out via bounties. But what reach do they have to put bounties on those in null? Maybe to encourage attacks or something but they're just farmed.

Though now the big question is, what would replace them in a fair manner that also fits the game world and doesn't break anything else?

You kinda didn't think this through. Citadel taxes have nothing to do with blue loot since you still have to go to highsec to sell it. There won't be any DED agents to sell them to in w-space.

You know that this blue loot is sold to NPC buy orders, right........?

Yes, but the point, I think, is that it would make the growth in the money supply come with a bit more effort.

It would sort of be like how money in some countries was linked to gold. So that the money supply could only grow as the supply of gold grew. If the supply of gold could not grow or grow fast enough to keep up with the growth of real goods and services, you'd have deflation. Conversely a sudden discovery of gold would lead to an rapid increase in the money supply--i.e. inflation. The point being it would be out of the hands of the central bank.

In this case the ISK supply would depend on how much blue loot is discovered over time. And since you'd have to move it around you'd have more or less of it depending on events (e.g. a JF carrying a big load getting ganked) or some guy successfully moving a large cache to empire and selling it.

Hence my comment about free banking.

It's rather remarkable how raging free market people are in game, but out of game I wonder how many are raging socialists who would find such ideas perfectly horrible....even though it did work rather well for countries that tried it (e.g. Scotland apparently had quite a stable and innovative banking system).

Ahhh, good point. People would likely still have to sell at an NPC station. You'd still be hit by the tax, not sure about the borker's fee in this instance...I'm guessing no.

I was thinking its just more fun to have people hauling their wealth around like it is in WH's

This is the most important idea here. The fact that wealth initially isn't just a value but an asset means it can lead to conflict. For instance there could be bounty tags or some sort of identifier that drops from rats that you have to turn in to get a bounty but only in low or high sec. This means this asset has to be hauled before it's isk. The more things like this the better, plus it helps further differentiate between low and null.

Why should you be allowed to have a loot mechanic change that will directly improve your ability to live in a wormhole for the more longer term?