EVE General Discussion

'Cheap ships' sounds good in theory, I mean who wouldn't want to be able to casually afford and fly around in good ships for cheap (such as T2/T3/faction).

But I just find that the 'balance' is very important for EVE. And EVE is not just made of people who fly & shoot each other in cheap ships. Another big part of EVE is 'making' these ships and gathering resources for such ships.

At the end of the day, from consumer/end-user point of view, yeah I can understand. Everybody's happier if they can get something cheaper.

But it needs to be sustainable and balanced, where everyone in the chain (from miners to producers to haulers to traders to the end users) can benefit from their own activities. If any particular group, or even worse, multiple groups start to suffer losses from long term depression and crashing market with painfully slow recovery, the game will start to get very wonky.

I think keeping a stable/healthy/growing economy in New Eden is as important factor as ship balances & quality of life improvement patches & stuff, for the longevity of the game.

To put it in different ways - you may go on holiday & find country A sells many things very cheap, and you'd love it and go on shopping spree. But if country A's economy collapsed, you probably wouldn't want to live and work there.

It's same with EVE as I see it. If market gets wonky enough, to the point that people start to see no value in ISK or in commodities or in their effort to make them/trade them, a lot of EVE's appeal and uniqueness will die, and at the end all you'll have left is meaningless space ship pew pew, at which point EVE may as well just turn into an arcade game with instanced arenas, etc.


Well obviously I'm talking about an extreme case of things going super nova level of fubar, and surely CCP will fiddle with things so that we do not reach that level of economic problem.


was just trying to explain 'cheap ships =/-= always good'.

There is still a ton of guess-work on what Drilling Platforms will bring to the game. Given that the rollout on those has been pushed back to late 2017, I'm hoping for an update devblog sometime early in the year, and then as CCP Falcon said could happen, maybe things get moved up a bit.

You might want to update your features for Winter 2016, right now your false advertising and Paypal, Visa and Mastercard will allow this reason for refunding of charges made over the past 60 days. Silly CCP might wanna tell your marketing department you lied about your target dates :)

CCP couldn't develop their way out of a wet paper bag.

Relax, hats were first on the list to do. Many people wanted them even before they started talking about new structures.

Whatever they do, make it so "... and then swing by jita to pick up a, b and c..." is off the table plz