EVE General Discussion

Superficially yeah. But there are plenty of plex in people's hangars, its just that speculators try to control the markets and higher prices are better for them.

And yeah re: WH, true. I guess you could say then that the distribution of wealth has become less acute with access to better ships to whore pve in. Meaning much higher amounts of isk paid out in bounties and LP's.

Back in my days 30mil ISK bought you a PLEX, a moving-picture cinema ticket, a ferry across the river, lunch, firewood for the night and a warm set of clothes!

This is false.

^this sums up everything

You're being a bit unspecific there…

Anything that is sold to NPC buy orders is pumping ISK into the economy by very definition.

When prices rise there's one or two reasons:
1. More demand
2. Less supply

ad 1) more demand may be caused by:
- people earning less RL money because of the economical crises and wanting to pay with ISk instead of RL cash;
- people getting more ISK in-game because they find ways to earn more ISK/hour;
- people spending less ISK than before so they have a surplus;

ad 2) less supply may be caused by:
- less people buying plex because they have less RL money;
- NEX items may cause plexes to be removed from the market;

and so on.

Untrue. There are NPC buyers for the sleeper data libraries, and they pay quite a lot too.

This, incursions are (almost) risk free and generate very large amounts of ISK. The only risk in incursions is griefers and bad fleets, and thanks to channels like BTL they are avoidable. Zero risk ISK generation shouldn't be that simple in this game.

I don't know of anyone that runs incursions and doesn't plex their account. Looking at Jita plex is 450m now, when I ran incursions I could earn that in a single night easily. If you're an incursion runner, you aren't going to be losing ships, so what else would you spend it on? You can easily spend a few days running incursions, plex all your accounts and still have money left over to buy ships for your PvP toon.

Solution: Gimp the crap out of people earning money in high sec. They go into WHs, or into low/null sec, and their money is spent on replacing their ships rather than buying plex.

Doing a quick google search about that-which-should-never-be-done: RMT ISK sells for about 60-75% of a PLEX. Having the price of PLEX go up is only a good thing, because RMT will be even less profitable. PLEX functions as a hard RMT price cap.

I haven't bought any PLEX yet, but if it goes up higher, I'd definitely consider it.

I thought CCP has been actively seeking a viable ISK sink.

I don't see how rising PLEX prices are a bad solution to their problem.