EVE General Discussion

If most of us are better at internet spaceships than we used to be guess what happens - we farm more money.
Thus inflation.

If most of us are better at internet spaceships than we used to be guess what happens - we make less mistakes that lose our own stuff.
Thus inflation.

And if more of us have realized that less fighting = more isk = more power then more of us dont fight.
Thus inflation.



You cant stop inflation when everyone is good at getting rich.

inflation would mean that items across the board are getting more expensive. meaning the value of isk is going down compared to a standard. Take the gold standard for example. Currently I am not sure what standard you are comparing isk's value to. And I seriously doubt we are experiencing inflation when the market changes by region.

You compare the value of isk, to the old value of isk.

• Pick a base year (starting point)
• Build a market basket
• See how the isk value of said basket has changed
• ????
• Profit

Short reason why inflation is topical:

CSM reported in the December minutes the inflation figures for the game:



People as a result jumped onto a propoganda band wagon that incursions are therefore the main cause for inflation as a result. And have used it for a while now as one of the main reasons to nerf them. Likewise as a result they have been incorrectly assuming plex increases have occured solely for the same reason.

Yet CCP recently validated this point that incursions are not the main problem:










As a result everyone is now scrambling to best defend their own patch (still including incursions) as a result of the "perceived" changes CCP will likley apply to combat interpreted inflationary problems.

So its kind of a kneejerk reaction that a global reduction in bounties and some tweaks to sinks which together may not be so significant a change to make inflation less of a concern on a macro scale by CCP is causing some people headaches.

As a result you could say it might have backfired a little on those who originally started the propoganda as a result?

Dude, your eyebrow (is missing)!

the gripe about incursions has nothing to do with inflation, it's the comparatively low risk in contrast with nullsec anomalies and wormhole sleeper sites

i hope this has provided some valuable insight in this discussion

Not really.

Seriously, where have you been for the last few months. You know full well all the numerous calls linking inflation with incursions as the main culprit.

And I did say it was "one of the main reasons" people where trying to attache this label.

Some interesting statements and views you might want to explain however?



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Rational Plex spike reasons.


Interesting watching Goons back peddling with their rhetoric however in an attempt to remove the taint of their BS.

Many people are scared of losing their income I think.

But the problem(if you even consider it a problem) isnt that the faucets has grown bigger.
The problem is just that as whole were earning more and more relative to how much we burn - by choice.

Our mentality has become basically the opposite of the average American/British/whatever consumer.

don't bother looking for a 'gold standard' in eve, there is none neither there should be tbh.

the sinks guarantee the ultimate value of isk - you can buy a harbinger bpo for a certain amount of isk and that won't change unless ccp decides to do it, same for any other sink. and it has to be isk: you can't pay for your corp hangar in thrashers - you have to sell the thrashers to someone who got isk from a faucet in order to pay your hangar tax.

regarding plex, minerals etc - whenever you look at them, never forget that speculators are causing price increases.

It's quite simple, really.

You have a bathtub full of water, and it's slowly overflowing because you left the tap on. Now, to improve things, you bring in the garden hose and let it loose in the bathtub as well, and omigosh, now it's really overflowing!

The question is: was the problem that the bathtub was already full, that you left the tap on, or that you made the excellent decision to add the hose as well?

No. It did not backfire — the argument is still that adding the hose at that point was a monumentally retarded idea, especially if the goal of the exercise was to just flush some water through that hose.