EVE General Discussion

The Problem:
ISK is inflating at a Rapid Rate.


The QQ solution:
Complain about it to CCP ad nauseam

This solution has been attempted for YEARS now, and has shown little or no results.


The Sandbox Solution:
Interdiction of physical assets. (Suicide Ganking is highly effective)

This solution has been implemented in small batches, but was largely restricted to security status issues. There however is a new security status implemented, If a large organization could control a block of low-sec for security redemption, the "cap" on suicide ganking would be effectively removed.

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What we need:

1) A bloc of low-sec secured away from carebears and restricted for specific use of regaining security status for suicide teams.

2) Intelligence, probe out mission runners, scan their fits and determine the appropriate resistance hole. and provide warp-out points for post-gank pods.

3) Gankers, to deal the damage

4) Scoopers, to reclaim friendly and hostile wreckage to compensate pilots.

How would this benefit me?
a) Share of the loot
b) Low-sec bounties
c) ISK in your wallet becomes more valuable with every gank.


A search for leadership:
My knowledge of operating large scale assaults on financial infrastructure is almost non existent, if anyone has any experience and would like to lead the Sandbox solution, please contact me in this thread or in-game.

For this you needed to start another thread

No.

Problem solved.
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To anyone that feels they have too much ISK, you know how to xfer it to my wallet.

We need a isk sink.

That is why you put all your isk as a bounty on me.

Someone understanding inflation \o/

A pilot afraid to undock to run lvl 4s needs to change ships. Gankers will never put a dent into mission running.

Seems like a serious Design Flaw that perhaps should be balanced by CCP. Excellent point!

Kara Vix's explanation may go as far as to say that Mission Running is a isk faucet with no counterbalance and is completely imbalanced and should be a top priority.

if you want to gank people, gank people. don't do it because you will "lower inflation"... by awarding insurance payouts.

inflation is not generated by ISK making, its generated because insurance artificially maintains acquisitive power on the players that lose ships. the isk generated via bounties gets exchanged with another player for a hull, and should that hull go pop, magically you get 40% back... that 40% is not the same isk you paid for the hull, its some space wizardry.

the mechanic is good to help lazy pvpers get their rocks off, but its lousy as an isk sink. to put it simply, every time any player exchanges money for a hull 40% of the mineral value, that has already been paid for, will magically appear at some point down the line in the form of ISK.

so, if your concern is to lower inflation, then go preach love and understanding through lowsec and null.... if they stop losing ships isk stops being printed. oh, and good luck with that.

that is, if you want the "sandbox" solution, if you want the "CCP intervention" solution, it gets even better...

instead of asking CCP to "do" something to fix inflation such as nerfing highsec, nullsec, bounties, or whatever... all you need to do is say "CCP please stop intervening on our sandbox by awarding insurance payouts to uninsured ships."

Voilà

Inflation is not fixed by ganks, and post number four in this thread is mostly correct.

Eve needs more distinct divisions of labor, more industrial specialization with high, though not impossible, barriers of entry. More day to day consumables, created by these specializations would help.

Also need less tangible areas for the money to flow and express, such as player corp and NPC stock markets, consumable vanity that is not related to the silly Nex store or aurum or any other RL money slurping scheme.

ISK sinks and faucets are not the solution. Diffusion of time, across the productive and consumption landscape, is.