EVE General Discussion

Interestingly, if you think about who this impacts the most, it actually would benefit the same people.

So if we are saying that Plex prices will affect people with alt accounts, who traditionally has the most alt accounts? Miners. So as miners have less alts, mineral supply starts to choke. As mineral supply chokes, the cost per unit increases. As cost per unit increases, miners profit more per unit (though overall probably stay about the same total income as they are supplying less units to market).

The people who will be pinched will be non-miners as price per unit increases but resources required to build remain constant. Losses will start to matter more as cost per loss will increase. People ganking miners will actually be hurting themselves as it will further constrain the market driving prices up.

So long and short, if Plex prices are truly reducing alts, it's probably a good time to speculate in minerals. Especially the high risk ones.

PLEX were even higher last month.

Nothing wrong with any of that but if you use pve to earn isk for plex and the price of plex "catches up" to the point where it turns into a grind, then it's time to modify how you make isk (that is if you want to keep plexing).

Back when plex was 450 mil or so, I kept my 4 accounts up but ratting with a Vindicator and 2 FoF heavy missile Tengus on Alts. it was a nasty slaughter, back then Forsaken Hubs didn't have frigates. All together I think my highest take was 250 mil isk per hour sustained not counting Faction Commander spawns and escalations.

And CCP saw-eth this, and said it was bad, and they did then nerf-ith they hell out of Forsaken Hubs, heavy missiles and tracking enhancers. Plex kept going up and my ability to easily rake in isk for plexes went down. Even today still doable but mech, can't be arsed.

Nowadays i use the same characters to roflstomp faction warfare missions in a small personal stealth bomber swarm, I have 2 of those same characters in a wormhole corp that does those monstrous cap escalations, and I keep a number of carriers in lvl 5 mission hubs (so I don't have to cyno around) to do lvl 5 missions. If the pve doesn't pay at least 350 mil an hour (ie 1 plex in less than 3 hours), I don't do it lol.

When plex hit's 2 bil then i'll freaking sub, not before hashtag LineInTheSand.

but to answer, yes I am sure some game play was effected. People who wanted cheap alts no longer have cheap alts. I have a 4th account i'm prolly not gonna renew cause I can't be assed to fork out the isk. And I decided that what I was gonna use it for is not gonna work the way I wanted. So i'll spend iskies on ships to lose instead of a plex. But getting isk for plex with a little focus is easy, you can do that in a c4 in about 3 hours, will cost you about 3b isk to start though.

Eve is dying.












Mandatory.

Simple - just unsub all your alt accounts. Run single account like I do and it's a joke to make your monthly Plex.

The real "issue" is people wait for the last ~3 days and then realise they have to grind a PLEX NOW! .It's stupid to do so but I'm pretty sure it's the reason why people ***** so much about it.

The point is moot. As long as the price is going up, it means the activities people aprticipate in still supply a surplus of income. Once it reaches a point where PLEX isnt moving fast enough due to not enough people wanting to pay the price, their price will fall, its supply/demand equilibrium, PLEX wont just keep going up forever, it WILL find a spot where the players actively involved in both sides of the equation find it at the edge of their acceptable limit.

If I were CCP I would buy up all the PLEX on the market with confiscated ISK and keep the prices high to drive sales. ...than of course reprocess the PLEX.

One can only hope so, maybe that will put an end to the lunacy of having 50 Exhumers controlled by one person.