EVE General Discussion

That's a pretty good list, and if you ponder a moment and think about how big each of these is, it really puts it into perspective. Well that pretty much explains the ISK flood.

Here, let me explain. When you make a list of the approximate value each faucet and sink has on an average pilot, you see that the problem isn't runaway isk faucets, it's a general lack of isk sinks. Here's approximately what each has been worth to me over the course of my entire career in EVE:

Faucets:
NPC bounties - 1,000,000,000 - 1,500,000,000
NPC buy orders - 5,000,000 - 20,000,000
Agent rewards: Mission rewards, Mission time bonuses, Incursion rewards - 150,000,000 - 250,000,000
Insurance payout - ~100,000,000
GM actions: Reimbursement for lost pods - none (I've only been reimbursed in goods, never ISK)
Character creation - ~600,000

Sinks:
Market taxes & fees: Broker fees, Sales tax - 15,000,000 - 25,000,000
NPC sell orders - ~400,000,000 (mostly skillbooks)
NPC station services: Repairs, Jump clone installation, Medical clone installation/upgrade/station change, Science and industry slot rental, Ship insurance - 50,000,000 - 100,000,000
NPC station office fees: Rent, Impound penalties - none (I don't keep my goods in offices so I don't know what that's like)
Wardecs - 10,000,000
Sovereignty fees - ~25,000,000
PI fees: Building PI structures, Import/export tax (from NPC-owned customs offices) - 20,000,000 - 30,000,000
Corp & alliance fees: Corp creation, Alliance creation, Alliance upkeep, Creating/awarding medals, Corp registry ads - 25,000,000 - 50,000,000
Agent fees: (Certain) LP store items, Locator agent services, Courier missions w/ deposits - ~15,000,000
CSPA Charges - 750,000 - 1,500,000
Smuggling fines - ~100,000
GM Actions: Removal of bought ISK, Removal of insurance after ship reimbursement - ~10,000,000 (a Prophecy)
Character deletion - ~25,000

If you make that into a chart of faucets vs. sinks, it'll look something like this:
Faucets:
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Sinks:
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Now take into consideration that I've never run incursions or high-class sleeper sites, or even very many nullsec anomalies for that matter. Once I get into that in the next year or so, my graph will probably look like this:
Faucets:
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Sinks:
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There now I made it visual, thanks in part to Tippia.