EVE General Discussion

Best way is to figure out how to implement features that can be rented for ISK. From really cheap stuff to ludicrously expensive stuff.

The catch is of course that said features must actually be useful in some way or form as well. Or alternatively be vanity based.

Frankly I even went as far as to think about letting players deal with station services and station infrastructure in some way or form. Don't have any solid idea on how such a thing would work though. The general idea would be however that players themselves set up station services for a time-based fee and in return make some money out of it should said services be sufficiently used by other players.

Drawbacks are numerous at this point though. Would it be a first player come first player served? If so then 4-4 in Jita would probably be numero uno pick and whoever takes it would never give it up. On the other hand, should it be a "shared" feature of sorts where the more players pitch in on a specific facility the less each player pays per month but also earns less due to split profits? That doesn't sound too great either. And regardless of which, thanks to the way gates and traffic works, backwater systems will be non-profitable regardless.

But in a way I still think that something like this would make for excellent isk sinks.

personal hangers for a fee?



A million a month per station you have it activated in.

Entirely optional, and a low enough fee that people will just pay it.

Maybe have the fee go up in popular stations, capping out at 5 million?

PLEX should cost more ISK. Let's get it done, peeps.

Perhaps CCP could add the option of being able to spend billions and billions of ISK on useless public sector workers.

Think of it. Not being able to undock without a heath and safety permit.

I would personally tackle inflation with a Malediction...and preferably in a belt, then I would ransom inflation, and then honor that ransom.

In-game FiS services. We see NPCs like haulers and such all the time. In the X series, you can set up automated trade routes. While total automation is not good for Eve...you could balance it.

Automated transports could be limited in size and be more expensive in service, and ONLY offered for shuttling things around in system. Traders and missioners, even pvpers could benefit from something like that.

You could also pay for NPC mercs, all be it limited by sec status (highsec-frigs and dessies @ max 10 units on the field every hour, lowsec- +cruisers and destroyers @ max 10-15 units on the field every hour, nulsec- all non capitals @ max 15-20 units on the field for every hour). Granted this could be VERY exploitable in wars but...just throwing the idea out there for modification.

I've been saying this on many other threads:

1. Ship maintenance costs - bigger ships need more maintenance
2. Planetary colonies and stations consume tradeable commodities

I have a feeling that the reason this hasn't been done yet is that CCP fears howls of rage from PvPers. The thing is this: PvPers go through ships like Cher goes through men. They wouldn't be paying much in maintenance fees.

The other potential argument is that the ships repair themselves - agreed, maybe - but nuclear reactors and capacitors can't possibly be repaired without drydocking the ship and taking it apart! Take it from someone that knows, you can't run fusion reactors without ever maintaining them.

And in any case, where do the materials for repair and electronics components come from? Are they assembled inside the ship?

There's a huge potential sink that the game just ignores.

there are all sorts of ways to tackle. just make sure no helmet to helmet contact or you'll get a penalty flag thrown

They did that, did that, and did that. Has nothing to do with inflation.