EVE General Discussion

Clever than CCP

If each PLEX could be traded only one time.
What would happen next?
Maybe it could stop the rising price of PLEX.

I think the biggest failure of the design of EVE Online is that PLEX can be traded unlimited, this makes PLEX has unparalleled speculation value

yeah CCP should Change the Plex .

maybe the solution is that you have to Change yourself

Stealth PLEX whine thread.
Heard it before, so its not allowed to be discussed here. This forum is only for totally new ideas and concepts.
Gas thread.

It really depends on how low the price would fall.I take it that at one point in time plex prices were only half of the last peak. Are you implying that at that point in time there was more illicit RMT and more account hacking?

I doubt this. I think that there is only a minority who would venture into the field of illicit or even illegal behaviour. And of this minority a fraction would do this regardless of the price.

If plexes could only be traded once obviously only those who actually are going to use them will ever buy. This reduced demand will most likely lead to a reduced price. No one knows how much the price would drop.

I thought about that too, but it really wouldn't work. Any thing like that would break the market in one form or another.

Increased taxes would just increase price or decrease the $ to Isk ratio which is to the detrement of people buying isk with $ legally.

Trading limitations would decrease the market volume if anything, which would drive prices up even more. Wouldn't want to waste your 1 sell per plex on a price too cheap right?

In the end the jita plex market just reflects game time value very well. I don't think that has to change.

Any change in how that's being valued should come from increasing challenge for ratting or such things. For example I've recently experienced just how ridiculously easy and boring it is to rat with sentries in nullsec.

PLEX price in RL money is unaffected. Only PLEX value in-game is affected.

If you think 800mil isk is a Ferrari, what will happen while PLEX rise to 8billion. I'm not talking about buying plex or selling plex. I'm worried about if plex keep rising (some businessman have huge amount of isk, what if they do some malicious speculation make the plex to a very high price, for example 8billion) , then economic crisis break out. This is not good signal to this game.

I agree its a PLEX whine thread.

One assumption was bann isboxer and PLEX prices would drop. They did, but they recovered to a certain grade.
PLEX as item that can be marketed is the intended idea, the OP idea is the same as removing PLEX complety from EvE.

Put something on the market and supply and demand will make the price. It can be manipulated to a certain degree but that would be only be reliable if one had a monopoly on it. One has. CCP! But its not CCP who keeps the prices up. Traders do.
Even MMOs like WoW has players who do nothing else then trading. So with a Market like New Eden, what would you think?
Eve might be the most interesting MMO-market there is. Stuff is lost for good and can not be restored. Almost every game relevant stuff has to be mined from rocks or moons, researched and build. google for hulkageddon...
Those traders laugh their heads of for the hate that miners get for AFK Playing.
Thats why i despise this freaking AFK argument of some certain wackos , it overlooks those traders completly. *They* can do a lot of harm.

So, OP, thats a completly stupid idea.

? Plex are still sold and bought by players, this thought experiment would change nothing about that.

PLEX prices are going down.

What is an appropriate price for PLEX?