EVE General Discussion

It might be true that you can get Aurum by trading Plex for em and of course you can buy Plex for ISK. So yeah you can earn Aurum through normal gameplay.

But here is the problem with it. As soon as you can buy something useful (non-vanity) for Aurum (and hiring mercs definetly is non-vanity) you have two things you can do with ingame Plex (get yourself 30 days free gametime or for instance hiring mercs).

Which means there will be higher demand for Plex. Normally a market regulates itself by higher supply and prices stay about the same in the long run. But that cant happen to Plex, quite the contrary actually. You buy Plex for real cash and sell them for ISK, because obviously you want ISK. So today if you want 900 million ISK you need to buy 2 Plex for real cash and sell them on the market. If the market price doubles, because the demand doubles, you will only need to buy 1 Plex for real cash and still get the 900 million you needed.

So all of a sudden there is double the demand, but only half the supply.
This way Plex will sky rocket.

And you know what happens next? More and more people drop out of the game, because they cant afford their Plex anymore and dont want to go back to paying Eve the old fashioned way.

You may argue that demand will drop if people quit, but actually thats a downward-spiral that will hurt Eve beyond recovery.

I hope DUST is a giant isk sink... we need some more of those, as well as a general reduction in isk faucets like incursions.

Posting in a needless soapbox postulating thread.

Yep, this is what it should (and AFAIK is going to) be, I'm fine with dust bunnies buying and spending their own aurum, but it should definately be an isk (not plex) sink from the EVE side of things.

Also, Dust FW would be pure awesomesauce

Much ado over nothing.
I haven't seen where CCP says DUST will be paid/contracted with Aruum.

Did I miss it? I looked at the provided link.

Here we go again more wild speculation with minimal evidence to back it up and posting on general discussion where everyone has their sources saying blahh blahh blahh.

Just ask them at fanfest.

Did you guys see the last trailer? Where they nuked the Moros from the surface?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw0gOjOWDuI

So now, take a mental picture. Your I-Hub is at a planet. Before they can take your TCU, they need to kill your I-Hub. Before they can bring your Station out of immunity, they need to kill your TCU after they Kill your I-Hub.

There are 2000 marines on the I-Hub planet, defending the OMGWTF Pwn-mobile that will one shot your Avatar if you even think about going near that I-Hub.

Have fun

Just confirming dust players who will buy their guns, tanks and dropsuits with isk will never ever be able to buy a plex from ccp and sell it on the market

I expect plex prices to go down, and not just a little bit

Given that DUST 514 soldiers are firing guns the size of their arm and we are firing guns the size buildings, what might be considered a lot of money to a DUST player would probably be pocket change for us.

Did you hear? Supposedly the Americans never went to the MOON.

My mind is blown.