EVE General Discussion

Can this NOT turn into another PvP vs PvE/High vs Low debate? We have 23894 of these already

Of these, only 1 and 4 would touch inflation.

These are sources of ISK (if I remember right about some wormhole loot being sold to npcs. otherwise it's not)

The other two are sources of goods.

Increase the supply of goods = cause deflation.
decrease the supply of money = cause deflation.

Increase the supply of money = cause inflation
decrease the supply of goods = cause inflation.

What's really gonna blow your mind is when you realize that there is no such thing as "inflation" in EVE. The economy here is player controlled and there isn't governments creating money out of thin air. There isn't gov'ts controlling the prices of supplies, fuel, or whatever. There isn't a stock market so to speak. The prices are levels that a player or group of players decided to make them. I stumbled across a channel near Jita that were all about controlling the market of supplies, ore, etc, etc... They also were forcing markets to inflate on specific items by buying every bit of that item up. And then reposting at higher prices to cause inflation and those increasing there own profits. Think about it...

From running missions and npc bounties. And, I think that is about it for the isk fountains. Places where isk is created out of thin air.

Insurance payouts are not feasible though since you only get a base price of the ship itself and nothing for mods or the insurance itself. It's only there to replace the ship itself, which was paid for by money generated elsewhere unless it was a frigate or whatever that was given as a mission reward which falls back on mission isk fountain.

Tradings stuff to NPCs is basically the same thing since those items came from somewhere. Whether you bought them off market or they were a drop. It's no different than selling them on the market so it falls back on the mission fountain again.
All isk comes from an agent of some sort or npc bounties.

Edit: I am at work and I can not read the DevBlogs on this topic currently. I will post my thoughts on how to rectify this issue once I get home if it can be fixed.

That will have zero impact on inflation since most of industry costs are player to player transactions, infact it will make most things MORE expensive. And will make it harder for a new player to get started since everything you have listed will cost more. Since it will be passed directly onto the customer. But won't remove massive amounts of isk from the game.

Incidentally the new player is why Inflation is bad, older players tend to gain income fast enough to keep up with it, but inflation lifts the bar for a new player to get into those sources of income.

It would, but CCP would face issues over the lost accounts, another plan I think you Mad person you.

increase market tax, this would not only make tax reduction skills better, it would remove isk from the game

make LP stores the only way to get +1,2,3,4,5 implants, they shouldn't drop from story mission like they do, if they can only be gotten from LP stores, isk will be taken each time one is bought.

Ah, I get it. The solution to inflation is to make people poorer so they have less to spend but also make it so that certain people can use tax avoidance schemes to retain their income.

Great plan.

How about a wallet tax? 1% a month tax on the money in your wallet would initially cause inflation as everyone looked to convert from ISK to hard assets, but would, over the long term, reduce the total amount of ISK in the game.



Oh course, the total amount of ISK in the game is not really what causes inflation. Inflation is triggered when people with the ISK spend it faster than goods and services are created to be bought. Sure, if there is more ISK, more is likely to be spent, but not always.