Player Features and Ideas Discussion

There's NOT to much ISK in Eve. You do realize any CCP programmer can add or remove ISK with a few lines of code?

Some of you are just so sad and predictable. It's like watching the same show over and over, and reciting the lines for the thousandth time. You need a hobby.

CCP already does that with botted/RMTed ISK.

Unless they have given up on that.

lets just start charging npc alts 1m per post on forums.

Reduce faucets not create more sinks. Increasing alliance bills is a stupid idea and depending on what the ranges are you will just have people splinter off to avoid the higher bill if its too much.

If you guys are so eager to see a hyper-effective isk faucet then I will gladly be of service. Just wire all your excess isk to me and I will safekeep it all.

In all seriousness though, inflation is a rather bad thing in any MMORPG/multiplayer game. EVE has managed it rather splendidly though considering for how long it's been running.

Path of Exile circumvented this problem more or less flawlessly though, by simply not having any gold as a currency, and instead let consumable and sought after items that everyone wants and use at any given level act as currency. Whilst other hack'n slash games like Diablo and so on suffer from what I'd call super-mega-hyper inflation due to the game being designed the way it is, Path of Exile will probably never suffer from this issue. Turning players themselves into monetary faucets was a stroke of genius really.

Obviously it would be a challenge to figure out how to turn EVE players themselves into faucets. Regular isk sinks only go so far after all, service fees, taxes etc etc - such things have a limit after all. The main reason for why it works for a game like Path of Exile is that it is chance based and the materials you use tend to have a rather low chance of success into turning out the way you want for any particular build that you may be after. EVE does not have that kind of thing (save maybe from researching T2 blueprints?).

And then of course, EVE and hack'n slash games are quite different games as well. Generally I also don't think that chance based features are as appreciated as well in a game like EVE compared to whatever Diablo clone that exist out there today.

But yeah, if anyone have any good idea on how a player could "gamble" isk in order to pursue something that is useful or sought after, regardless of player age, and without upsetting the game balance in any way then yeah, go right ahead and suggest it.

Only thing I can think of (that is far from being a solid idea) would be a general lottery system of some sort that is chance based on an individual level.

Second of all, a system of sorts where you spend a rather large amount (read very high amount) of isk in order to change a T1 module into a random meta module - all the way to officer level. Then again, getting a faction/officer level would be somewhere around 1/1000 or so at the very least (at any rate be far more difficult than by simply going out there and try to get a drop the normal way). But yeah, as I said, this idea have a fair few holes and would probably require extreme amounts of testing before even considering anything else. Correctly done though it could end up sucking away incredible amounts of isk from the game simply because there are people that like to take these kind of chances. But once again, how's the reception on chance based features here?

The one big advantage that EVE has over Path of Exile with this system is the fact that modules can be destroyed which pretty much would make this system somewhat self-regulated from gradually excess buildup of the rarest of modules.

Anyway, I cannot think of any other way to really burn isk from the game apart from something along these lines.

Just get rid of hisec incursions.

that's the part that is a conflict driver, eventually those small groups could start fighting amungst each other or 1 small group fights another from a different mega alliance. So instead of fighting huge alliance blocks like the CFC, SOCO, HBC, ect, there would be many smaller alliances within the block. The large blocks aren't too concerned if 1 member allaince has a beef with some other alliance. They are allowed (or left to) handle thier own business as long as it doesn't interfer with the larger goals.

I was origninally looking at this as a way to create an isk sink and a conflict driver.

In whomever's wallet you bought the ship from. The only thing that takes money out of the economy are payments that go to CCP entities like NPC corp taxes, market tax, broker fees, skillbooks etc.. CCP already increased the market tax to put downward pressure on inflation by taking more money out of the economy.

So in the case of your example, no ISK was harmed in the destruction of your ship.

the only perfect solution is that every player put half their amount of ISK into my wallet

i promise i will not use it and will not put any of it back on the market

really i promise ..... trust me .............you know me ,you can trust me ,right?