EVE General Discussion

thers an rmt joke in there somewhere i just know it.

Well if you're looking at it from a legit RMT perspective (ie, the RMT endorsed by CCP through which they profit), 1 PLEX = 800 million ISK at current market price. 1 PLEX = 20 USD, therefore 800 million ISK = 20 USD.

Let's say a Titan costs 100 billion. 100bil/800mil = 125. So that's 125 PLEX. 125*20 = 2,500 USD.

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You're cheating Falcon, you can post images but we cant .

It makes it fun to talk about spaceship battles when you can report damages greater than a person's salary.

However, I don't really consider ISK all that valuable. I am willing to sacrifice 800mil ISK to save me fifteen bucks, even if all that amounts to is a few gallons of gas. I aim to have fun when I play EVE so I don't "work" for the ISK the same way I work for dollars.

Then you must reeeaaally hate your job. I'll gladly spend two extra hours at work per week to never have to look at Eve PVE again.

I have plenty of free time, technically it's all free, didn't have to pay for it.

People choose to place a monetary value on their time, it's just something people do. I don't look at it that way though, I take a far more casual approach.

Same with virtual items, people choose to place a value on them even though there really isn't one. Doubt there will ever be a time where a company can claim virtual items as financial assets in regard to their company. Something with 0 value can't be a financial asset.

In an mmo say like WoW where someone buys a mount from the shop. They're not purchasing the mount they're purchasing the ability/license to use it.

So let's say CCP is Mother nature and it allows you to buy flowers or pick them up for free. Mother nature decides suddenly that flowers can be bought with RL money in the local and only mother nature owned flower market for real money, but you are only allowed to buy flowers and not sell them. You can never sell any flowers anywhere because they belong to mother nature. However, you are also allowed to pick your own flowers for free, as much as you like. So I put my red riding hood on and go pick myself some flowers and proudly exhibit them in my garden. Suddenly some people come and trample on the flowers, and those people now laugh their arses off that I lost the equivalent of let's say, inventing, 1000 $. They laugh their arses off like there is no tomorrow, they are so excited that I lost 1000$ because of them. Not understanding what they laugh about, I take out my 12 gauge and before I can aim, they already covered 10 miles fleeing, while I just go and pick some flowers again , in my free spare time, out of my own free will. Let's say this repeats itself every single day. So it is safe to say (according to many replies), that I am at a horrible loss, I will most probably end up living under a bridge soon at this rate, because the people that come trample my flowers that I get for no cost, they believe I am actually losing physical money, but apparently what they do not understand is, that since what they are doing, to them that time they use to do this is worth real money, than they are losing money themselves, because they keep destroying something that I've got unlimited supplies of, as long as mother nature exists.

My point?

ISK can have a monetary value to some, as it can have no monetary value to others, depending on how you play the game. But why people in this game adopt that ALL fall under the first category of where in-game isk has monetary value to all, that is what I was trying to find out all along.

Going to pick and choose what I think is relevant, but EVE needs to do away with the clone upgrading (include insurance payout, to further the isk sink) and "being immortal", period...ship blows up, no more pod, (your mind is updated every time you visit a station to stay within lore reason that you didn't completely die..autosave feature like in RL how you always loose something except for the last few minutes), and only the latest copy remains....you will loose some skill points every time.

Why?

Make it harsher, put into the perspective what its like to actually loose something important...which will then put the value of your monthly subscription tied into the game / 30 days trained time = time well spent. Cause now you have a real harsh world, where its not what you lose flying but what you lost in the experience of the moment you went boom

edit: typo