Jita Park Speakers Corner

Inflation is rampant right now PLEX prices have risen over the last year, Tritanium is at an all time high and yet mining is still unprofitable.

New Titans are now rolling of the production lines at the rate of 2 per day, it's no longer surprising to see fleets with 100 supercaps.

Devs attempts to fix the bottlenecks due to R64 moon materials were at first inadequate due to an exploit, and later made Technetium an even bigger bottleneck, despite analysis showing this would happen.

Planetary interaction changeover was handled poorly, there are people expecting to make trillions from stockpiles of NPC acquired materials.


Everyone has their own economic bugbears -
Level 4 Missions
Incursions (1/4 of the isk in eve is now coming from these)
Anomalies (apparently lucrative enough that titans are running anoms)
Drone Alloys - Going into supercaps.
RMT - the comedy killmails that RMT generates don't offset the other shenanigans.

And of course take all of the above and add in Bots/Macros/Slaves in a basement.


Almost every candidate has stated positions on changes to Eve which could have long reaching effects on the economy, a popular sentiment right now is changing drones away from dropping piles of compressed minerals into returning actual bounties. You need to look at these kind of things with an eye to the economic impact across the cluster:
* Less minerals but More Isk
* Mineral demand up, more isk available means minerals rise
* Minerals price rise forces the price rise on practically everything, including PLEX
* Raw ISK is devalued - bounties, incursions and other cash rewards become less lucrative.

Much of the discussion of drone drops stems from the legendary supercap factories fueled by wrecks of the drone hordes, but changing drone drops won't stop the game balance problems surrounding blobs of supercaps. This does not invalidate the notion, but the CSM members need to be cool and unbiased when CCP developers ask their opinions. The CSM should also be able to perform convincing analysis of ideas presented to them.

Remember Larkonis Trassler who when presented with upcoming details of a moon goo rebalance went off and bought stockpiles of moongoo based upon this information and subsequently got banned. Not to criticise Lark too much, but this became delicious comedy when he later admitted that he'd bought the wrong stuff and wouldn't have made any money. Meanwhile Akita T told everyone that Technetium would be the bottleneck before the Dominion update was released. Many laughed at the analysis, but in time it has proven right.

With Mitanni and other official candidates for 0.0 alliances guaranteed a large share of the vote the unaffiliated need to rally behind a representative who is guided only by reason, logic, and a deep understanding of Eve. If elected I would be such a candidate, with my years of Eve experience and academic degrees in modelling complex systems I would be well equipped to satisfy these important needs.

I invite the other candidates to step up with their opinions on the economic issues and the problems confronting the players.

still giggling over guidance systems almost two years later

man oh man that was a good one

Yes I stand to make tens of billions on both those... unless PI gets changed again.

Nullsec mining is inferior to literally any other activity you could do for isk, requires specialized skills, and expensive useless ships.

Literally the only reason people mine in nullsec is because mining bots scale better than ratting bots.

Let me point you at a very basic lesson in economics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost

EVE's economic system, and the problems that plague it, are a near perfect example of behavior being dictated by "opportunity cost", from permanent NPC corp PvE alts to the dusty corpse that is nullsec mining and industry.

I find that a lot of behaviour can be explained through stupidity.

Question for OP and no trolling from me.

What data modeling would you use in the EVE systems as i am interested

You have multiple IVs and DVs which are both parametric and non parametric and you may miss an IV and not see its extranous effects. Ive got knowledge as well which i use in a business related environment.




Second question as an example. effect of the removal of drone poo and the devaluation of Isk in EVE.

You need to know a number of things first off

What % of minerals in supercaps come from Drone poo

Is drone Poo used in any other building

What is the total mineral mineral basket

What is the mineral basket per day

how many supercaps are produced per day.

You need all of this before you can create a formula to assess what impact drone poo removal would be and those are what i can think of at this very moment

Titans rolling out off the lines like supercapital rifters!

Titan blobs blapping everyone forever.

chairman for life the mittani has the goonwaffe finance team to explain any financial issue to him so he can bring it to ccp

this does mean he can't get us to analyze something ccp proposes since that'd be under nda but we can explain in excruciatingly boring detail exactly how various things affect and warp the eve economy