EVE General Discussion

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No no no, dumping baskets full of currency into the economy doesn't cause inflation, preventing people from autopiloting freighters full of loot to Jita causes inflation.

Be all this as it may, there's no governance of currency in circulation which will inevitably lead to inflation, or all economic models are wrong, and a few EVE geniuses qualify for the Nobel. Your list is rather partial, and what CCP claims, in relation to what they actually understand makes quoting them moot. EVEflation, or madflation is an inevitable outcome of this model.

Blowing ships up directly removes isk from circulation. You're literally blowing it up.

Your entire point is void (Due To Suicide Ganking)

Duplicate thread is redundant.

1. Removal of the POS fuel isk sink.
While POCOs do void the isk sink since the tax goes to the corp, all of those IB and Concord COs are sinking isk. I've no idea how much tax hi-sec production is soaking us for, but my single planet robotics operation (i.e. no tax on p0-p2) in low-sec were charging ~7,000 isk on export. That's on par with NPC sourced robotics.

2. Lack of new players to expand the economic base.
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3. Increasing number of SPs allowing people to kill large rats faster.
Granted. Thanks to character sales, old toons never die... they just change hands. Add in the effects of rigs, open access to implants & faction gear (LP store change) and fully develpoed T2 production (you've gotta be old school to remember Meta4 on T1 BSes as hi-end mission running)

4. Decreasing ability to arbitage items between regions due to suicide ganking.
Red Frog. Problem solved. Seriously though, I run my loaded freighter from Dodixie to Jita multiple times per week w/o issue. I've pushed as much as 3Bisk in a single load, and passed without a scratch.

5. Massive cost increases in the raw resource basket due to:
a. suicide ganking of miners
[citation needed] Hulkageddon-I had some impact on mineral prices, but was likely speculative rather than a real disruption. Other Hulkageddon events have had little or no market impact.

b. banning of mining bots
\0/ Down with slave labor!! Seriously, the effect of mining bots is to artificially push down the cost of materials. If CCP can get/keep bots under control, I wouldn't be surprised to see mining of high ends climb back to 100Misk/Hr, like it used to be.

c. increased costs in moving reprocessed minerals from mission hubs (due to suicide ganking).
See 4 above. 5.75Misk to move a billion isk from Dodixie to Jita is not a significant cost.

6. We are transitioning from T2 being at the top of the commonly used mod pile to faction being at the top of the pile.
If true, the prefered modules are more effective than the T2 modules they replace. That's a productivity increase via upgrades, not inflation, and the effect is negative price pressure on the modules they replace.

So why is insurance fraud no longer happening? If ganking CREATED isk, people would be ganking themselves to create it. (Like they did before the insurance fraud fix)

When you blow up a hauler, he only gets a portion of the isk back from the ship, and about half of his cargo is destroyed.
The end result is A LOT OF ISK GETS REMOVED FROM THE GAME, some of it is transfered to a new owner, and a little goes to the owner of the dead ship.

Perfect example would be that Ibis that was ganked in Jita carrying a couple hundred PLEX.

Incursions are not a MAJOR source of inflation, no. But it IS adding to it. The fact is Incursions are the best PvE isk source in the game. It should never have been that way. It should never have made people more then lvl4's in highsec.

Incursions are just one part of a big problem. I think the major problem is the increased number of carebears in the game all farming isk, never leaving highsec, never risking it in PvP.

The huge increase in the past year, in whine threads about Cloakers, Gankers etc, are evidence the carebear population is growing. These people suckle on the isk faucets. Even after they're 5 years old they're still latching onto that nipple, and they absolutely refuse to leave their highsec house. All these carebears are amassing more and more isk and they're doing nothing with it.

Y U PEOPLE IGNORE TECH MOONS

Buying ships removes isk from your wallet and puts it in mine.
Blowing up ships removes the ship from your inventory, and insurance puts isk in your wallet; but less than the cost to buy a new ship. I still have the isk used to buy the ship you lost, and you have newly created isk from the insurance payout.

If you expect to collect more isk from any loot you can gather than the difference between the insurance payout and the original ship cost, then suicide ganking is profitable.

Under the old insurance model, the insurance payout was often higher than the market price of a ship, making insurance fraud profitable without bothering with a gank.

Becuase they are over owhelmingly NULL SECers using Incursions as a scape goat