Market Discussions

No it doesn't. Inflation is a decrease in the purchasing power of a given currency. Consider this scenario: I want a hot dog. I need a hot dog bun and a hot dog for this. Sadly, a horrible generic disaster has wiped out all the wheat fields. There's a sudden dramatic drop in supply for hot dog buns. Their price increases.

Hot dogs on the other hand suffered no such catastrophe. Their price remains the same--or arguably decreases. Purchasing power of money unaffected. Value of hot dog buns increased

If he chose a product which does not intimately affect many other products, then his example would be fine. A decrease in the availability of Morphite, for example, would not affect the prices of a large quantity of items on the market, as it is not involved in their production. Morphite, and thus morphite derivatives, increase in value. The money used to purchase morphite is still the same value, more is required because morphite is a more valuable resource.

Trit is a poor example because of how involved in the production of everything it is, and how it can easily be used as a currency of exchange.

I used trit because it was closer to wheat (wheat was an awful choice because of the casscade. Food cost rise increases cost of living for everyone in the chain of production it just gets ugly from there). Morphite would have a limited effect in that it is a minor component in many items that are high value (T2 is honestly the only thing I have ever used it on so I can't be sure) I was thinking of broader areas to be honest.

Not an increase in the price of trit. A decrese in the availability. With no change in the currency supply the result is inflation. Because the same money is seeking half as many commodities the purchasing power of the currency is reduced. I think people are used to looking at it as a currency issue because so much real world inflation is caused by currency manipulation. But it is not deterministically so. If the enire econmomy is made of 10$ and 5 apples $2 an apple is reasonable. If you double the money supply 4$ becomes reasonable. If you destroy 3 apples with no change in money then 5$ is reasonable. Either of the last two scenarios are inflationary.

A decrease in availability increases the value of something. If half the gold on the plane disappeared, gold would suddenly be valued twice as much. Also, second part of my post agrees with you, we're talking about inflation, not monetary inflation.

The main problem is the lull in nullsec combat. It's bad for the economy but even worse it's boring.

I do think that this new expansion will largely fix that by encouraging people to take out large blobs of battlecruisers and kill/die in great numbers.

Only CCP knows the ammount of ISK in EVE and can say if there is a inflation, other is only speculation about it.

Therefore send me those ISK to decrise the inflation.

Your point is more than valid, i've actually been trying to make it for a while.
If 500b of ISK enters EVE daily, and 500b-equivalent of goods enter the economy, the value of currency is stable.
Which seems to be the case, PLEX apart.

But you're assuming demand for trit (or whatever commodity) is going to remain the same. If trit suddenly doubles in price, every account that has a barge character will be out in the asteroid fields mining away. People who used trit extensively would no longer be consumers, as they're out in the fields as well (or are forced out of the market altogether to make isk elsewhere). A shortage would last a matter of days and suddenly there would be excess trit on the market within a week. Then market equilibrium will take over again as consumers-turned-supplier become consumers again as the trit economy stabilizes

For instance, the isotopes example I gave earlier: some players who manufacture items (especially t1) may find that mining isotopes becomes more profitable than dealing with the trit spike. More supply in isotopes = reduced price for isotopes, assuming demand is met of course. Price level for isotopes might decrease. Yes, trit could potentially influence isotope prices. But it won't, because any shortage wouldn't last long enough to exhaust the mass reserves of trit players are holding on to

Even if a sudden shortage of trit did occur, supply would rapidly meet the demand again because, like you said, it's so integral to so many aspects of the market. I don't think you can call it inflation even if a significant portion of the market spikes for a handful of days before settling back in to the normal routine

That doesn't necessarily mean inflation though. Suddenly there's 50% less mex but the same amount of trit, yes it'll cost more trit to buy mex but trit's cost isn't going to change. This scenario illustrates mex's value increasing (short term), not inflation. If mex and trit were the only two tradeable commodities, both would have to increase in price and remain at an increased price to indicate inflation