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The Plex System

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General Abitis
Awoken Disintegration Fleet
#1 - 2012-01-18 21:09:36 UTC
I was mining in a top secret high sec system the other day, but what i've always noticed in the system was the number of players mining there that has numerous multi-account alts between 6-16 at a time where someone will do belt wipes throughout a 32 belt system day in day out. now there's always been players like this in this system no issues but ever since tannaris the problem is getting worse and worse. I had thought this kind of thing was only happening in this system alone, but this is happening in every part of new eden. I have a friend in the system that does this, but he has done it so much he is not only his own production corp, but he is his own alliance, his own pvp corp, and he tells me he does it using the plex system, he says the more accounts you make the faster the isk you can make to add more accounts per month and hence the major issue with the PLEX system of today.

In my opinion plex should've never been tradable or even contractable, not even resellible. Now i am in agreeance that plex should be transportable since ppl will be moving from place to place based on what might happen down the road, but CCP has made plex where you can just use it to farm new accounts to either sell on isking sites or to dominate a system single handedly. The point of plex in the first place was to reward those who keeps playing eve even after getting bored with it by letting them play for free, that's fine

To make things worse the demand of making stuff to sell on the market has gone down in value dramatically, i now think plex has a lot to do with this, in 2009 the sell value of a T1 battleship used to be 75mil, today it's 45-55mil. Why work your ass off mining to build a battleship or salvage countless missions to build battleships to sell for 55mil when you can buy and sell plex between 400-800mil. Players are no longer selling things to make profit, but selling plex which is destroying the in-game economy for the advanced players. I can literally buy a plex right now and place a sell order on it for 2bil and players will pay it in minutes, players will pay almost any isk price to play for free right now
Professor Alphane
Les Corsaires Diable
#2 - 2012-01-18 21:19:55 UTC
General Abitis wrote:


In my opinion plex should've never been tradable or even contractable, not even resellible.


How would that be any diffrent than paying a sub?

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Rory Orlenard
Eve Pilots Revolutionary Army
#3 - 2012-01-18 21:30:13 UTC
There aren't that many people with the resources in hardware and the time to run multiple accounts.

CCP changed the courier missions to Distribution missions and chopped the RMTers off from the highsec lvl 4 Courier Mission Teat. What you may be looking at is a new brand of RMTing.

If you do not know how to investigate and build a case to present to CCP or do not have the time drop me an evemail and i will look into this.
Ptraci
3 R Corporation
#4 - 2012-01-18 21:54:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Ptraci
General Abitis wrote:
I was mining in a top secret high sec system the other day


tl;dr

Short version: some people have more time and better equipment to play EVE than I do and are more creative than me and I'm jealous CCP make them stop.

Also there are no secret systems in EVE. Any locator agent will tell you that for 100,000 isk or so.

PS: I have 6 accounts I regularly fund with PLEX. And I can play all 6 at a time because I have 4 monitors.
Ai Shun
#5 - 2012-01-18 21:58:50 UTC
General Abitis wrote:
I can literally buy a plex right now and place a sell order on it for 2bil and players will pay it in minutes, players will pay almost any isk price to play for free right now


Nonsense. PLEX is selling for below 500,000,000 ISK at the moment. You get a fast turnaround for prices below 489,000,000 ISK (As of yesterday) but above that they take a while to sell. Look at the graphs on the Market Window and explore the tables to see the sell medians.

Your hyperbole is not making you look clever.

ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#6 - 2012-01-18 23:02:08 UTC  |  Edited by: ShahFluffers
You seem to misunderstand how the PLEX system works OP...

PLEX does not build ships... mine minerals... run missions... or even "create" ISK at all. It simply "moves" ISK from in-game wealthy people to people who are RL wealthy.

In other words... people who sell PLEX are RL paying for someone else's account in exchange for ISK.