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Eve turning into UO?

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Lin-Young Borovskova
Doomheim
#181 - 2012-05-14 11:04:10 UTC
Tobiaz wrote:
Lin-Young Borovskova wrote:


Nerf individual player income was and will never be a good choice, null sec anoms got buff recently again because the impact was not the one expected.

So to make it simple atm, the good way to make huge amounts of isk is to either have tech moons or trade at station hubs.
Moon mining "should" be nerf, witch I strongly doubt without further information than just rumours about ring mining, when is trading going to get a good nerf stick by significantly increasing taxes and make it as interesting as PI?

And yes I'm already expecting the argument about price repercussion on buyer, but this has consequences equally ^^


If individual player income is driving inflation up, then by all means it deserves to be nerfed. If that is currently the case in EVE though, is debatable.

And corporate/alliance-level passive income is important for null, because of the non-paying activities involved to cultivate and run a null-'empire'.

he reason why it's imbalanced right now, has less to do with how much money can be made from a single moon and more with the ridiculously cheap jump and bridge mechanics, allowing alliances to easily control multiple regions, have complete safety and quick travel to their hinterlands, and enable alliances to NAP all their neighbors without facing boredom-rot, forming a coalition that can no longer be challenged.

Nerfing moon-income will change nothing to the underlying problems causing things like the high Tech prices, or even the impact of dronegoo on empire mineral prices for that matter.


Well, actually my comment about "individual" income was a generalisation, of course when everyone knows only a few hundreds of players are really rich in game, far too rich for whatever reason and because of those every one feels the nerf stick. No one can consider a guy playing for a year or two with 4 or 5 B cash + same in assets as rich when those hundreds very rich stop count after dozens of billions.

Does this nerf means we all have to go in wh's and make billions to be able to play decently?

Does this nerf means that if you can't afford more than 30min or 1h day average you're not welcome to Eve?

Some questions deserving answers but there are a lot more when you think at current state of gank on line, what and how do these changes affect those players not having time and rl resources to spend more than few hours a week?
It's somehow forcing plex sells or to find time to play but in this case, is Eve still a game or a second job?

brb
Takseen
Federal Defense Union
Gallente Federation
#182 - 2012-05-14 12:24:39 UTC
Lin-Young Borovskova wrote:


Well, actually my comment about "individual" income was a generalisation, of course when everyone knows only a few hundreds of players are really rich in game, far too rich for whatever reason and because of those every one feels the nerf stick. No one can consider a guy playing for a year or two with 4 or 5 B cash + same in assets as rich when those hundreds very rich stop count after dozens of billions.

Does this nerf means we all have to go in wh's and make billions to be able to play decently?

Does this nerf means that if you can't afford more than 30min or 1h day average you're not welcome to Eve?

Some questions deserving answers but there are a lot more when you think at current state of gank on line, what and how do these changes affect those players not having time and rl resources to spend more than few hours a week?
It's somehow forcing plex sells or to find time to play but in this case, is Eve still a game or a second job?


Well subscription MMOs aren't a great investment if you only have a few hours a week to play. Also the nature of the game can mean its hard to get much done in a small time block of 30 mins or 1 hour. But its still enough time to run a level 3 mission or two, mine a few roids or update your PI, industry jobs and market orders.

Sure you might not be able to afford to pvp in HACs or other expensive ships, even if you had the time. I just don't see that as a big deal.
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