EVE General Discussion

That's a little low for null-sec, tbh. Even after the removal of Drone poo I can make 80-90 million an hour ratting in null. Add PI on top of that and I'm making somewhere between 4 and 6 billion a month for something 60 - 80 hours of work (over 30 days).

Im surprised no one has mentionend factional warfare in the first few pages. Obviously this is one enabling people to plex as you can make several bil every other week

game.. breaking...

back down to 630

Making money isn't a matter of SP, it's a matter of knowing all the tricks to playing the system and being in the right place at the right time. A day-old character could hang out in front of Jita and scoop a load of PLEX from a suicide gank and I myself got a Dominion webber drop in a 0.6 in my first week (didn't have even enough isk at the time to pay the broker fee for the full 200mil average )

^ This.

And CCP doesnt choose the ISK price of PLEX, players do. Again, as many players have pointed out now.

Lol, for real. Moving money from one toon to another is not a faucet. The money was already in the economy. If anything it is a sink, because some ISK was taken from the sale price as tax...

^ This.

There is too much isk being created from nothing and not nearly enough to buy that removes the isk from the game. Almost all isk spent in game goes to other players. Yet, you can get isk created from nothing by killing rats in all areas of the game. You get it from missions. You get it from plexxing. As long as there is more isk being created from nothing that there is isk leaving the game, prices will constantly go up until you get to the point that there are player created items or rare drops that have such an astronomical price that most players won't be able to realisticly aford. This will possibly include PLEXs in the long run since most of them go to isk rich players or isk rich alliances that buy them for their players (think 0.0 tech moon holding alliances.)

Other than me, you are now my favorite poster in the 'Has a clue' category.

Want to be my alt?

Mr Epeen

A friend of mine and I have been talking about this for years. As long as CCP leaves most of the highly disposable items in the game in the hands of players they don't have many options for sucking hard isk back out of the system. I think CCP should have "nationalized" several things a long time ago, tech 1 ammo, nano paste etc. would be a good start. Another idea would have been to include an NPC sold generic component to be used in every manufactured ship. I.e. Frigate gizmo, cruiser gizmo, battleship gizmo etc. The point wouldn't be to add much cost to the end product, just another oppurtunity for CCP to suck isk out of the economy.

On a side note, here is a hard example of isk being pumped into the economy. People are quick to give vague generalizations of how much comes from this or that, but here is what someone can actually get from Lvl 4 missions. Last night I played for exactally 68 minutes. In that time I did four Lvl 4 missions. I cleared 97m isk in salvage and loot, 32k lp, and 77m isk from bounties and mission payouts. That is 77m isk that was not in the system prior to me playing for roughly an hour. This is not an outlier. This is what I make everytime I mission when I need isk.