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Awesome, thanks for the response CCP Quant!

Also thanks to Aryth for bringing this up, these reports don't add much value for the playerbase if they're not accurate after all :)

Oh and any chance my first couple of questions could be answered? I have cookies... :D

The next economic report will have correct regional mining and trading figures

The spike in money supply is due to a chunk of users coming back

Outline of the discrepancy in the data :

• Regional Trade value: The sql procedure that gathers these metrics in detail from the logs did an "inner join" on stationID to a table containing a list of known locations in the eve universe (static data), hence citadels were left out by effect of the inner join, I changed this join to join to the solarSystemID of the transaction instead, so the transactions are now properly assigned to solarsystems and regions in our data backend
• Mining drones missing from Regional Mining Value: Back in the days before big data we logged (and still log) some events like mining into an sql table. The data job that gathered mining data aggregated by solarSystemID and oreTypeID took its data from this aforementioned sql table. Drone mining events are not logged into that one, but into our event log (big data), so I made a map/reduce job to replace the legacy sql code for getting the data.

Edit: Please bring said cookies to the next player event we will both attend.

See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37385555

Real-life prosecutions are taking place over betting for virtual items. I'm sure that CCP don't want to run foul of the law in the UK - especially as they have business interests in the country.

Quant are you intentionally trying to confuse people?

You talk about the trade and then suddenly its about the mining data?

HALP.. What data are you taking where?

I hope you are taking the trade data and adding it to the system trade data "container" ?

I think it will be an even weirder report if you add mining data to the trade tables?

I think the confusion was this line in the Regional Trade Values bit

Please keep gambling out of EVE.



Please do make collaterized loans available in-game.
As for a niche... POSes were also utilized by a small portion of the community, right? Then we witnessed Citadel, one of the most successful expansion, followed by Ascension with engineering complexes and refineries are coming soon(tm). Throw us a bone with this simple financial instrument, see how it goes and maybe some way down the road it will result in something bigger.

Well that says quite clearly where the isk gets made in EVE.

Regarding the proposals, I think it's important for some intel to get out to players about big moves. This is a game without any baseliner espionage tools but that still relies heavily on espionage, and much like we assume crew costs are covered, we should be assuming that some basic level of intel is available.

Things like regional trade figures and the like are not going to give away secrets of which system holds all the titans (though the manufacturing index might on the map), and making effective use of regional stats for intel requires quite a bit of number crunching and skill, so they should be left, or a basic means to gain such figures should be implemented in game.
Similarly regional bounties can already be sort of guessed as NPC kills are available from the map, so releasing those figures also wouldn't significantly skew intel, or tell you exactly where to find ratters, but it would allow analysis of things.

Its not gambling if skills are involved.
Just make them push levers fast enough to get those money flowing out in streams from the RNG machines.

@Quant

In an ideal New Eden, the numbers regarding RAW resources like Asteroids, Gas, Ice, and Moon Materials, would be reported a lot more like prospecting in the real world. So the numbers we would get was how much is "spawned" and how much is remaining. Not how much is mined or by who.

Before anyone say: well that is the "same thing just, do the math", the argument is that with such numbers you would get the estimated valuation of regions and not their current productivity and utilisation. Such valuation transperency would be a potential motivation for more dynamic conflict. It would also make it a lot easier for CCP to tweak the knobs regarding distribution, and create scarcety and shortages, that would mean less of the current horrible "self sufficiency" designs.

The spawns would be "new discovered resources"..

Designing in this direction and utilizing the MER as an actual game feature, would create a lot of emergent gameplay.

Something along those lines also ties very well into the potential of using the upcoming ledger feature. Since that is fundamentally a prospecting tool.

NB: As I asked Karkur at fanfest, it would also be a good time to give the scanning modules an overhaul and integrate them into something like a unified scanning UI. So your roid scanner, ship scanner, and cargo scanner, all had their results show in the scanner, in a "ledger like" format. Showing estimates on values, volumes, etc. These scans should/could be directly exportabla and sharable for intel purposes.

Just my personal thoughts on the subject matter.

LOL that was another of those Wooosh jokes Quant :) I was thinking more Oil and Oil cartels, than DeBeers and grotesque manipulation and monopolistic market control.

but yes I think something resembling reported caches, prospect detection levels, and depletions etc would create some interesting meta content. Which would not feel as "flat" and perfect knowledge/intel like to people.