Maken Tosch
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2013.09.29 19:04:00 -
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Wait until the secondary player-controlled market comes in probably next year. The prices for gear will skyrocket to epic proportions. Tell me, are you ready to pay 10,000,000 ISK for just a single proto fit? Imagine dying 5-10 times in a match and then realizing you just lost 50-100 million ISK in one session alone. And that's just for the suits. Imagine the vehicles. |
Maken Tosch
DUST University
Ivy League
4338
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Posted - 2013.09.30 01:18:00 -
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Marston VC wrote:Iron Wolf Saber wrote:It's... bad.
CCP is going to be installing massive pool drains in the future hopefully. Yes. I wrote a document about isk gains a little while back. It featured how much money the top three land owners at the time was making. The numbers came out to billions of isk on districts alone per month. The amount of money one region of space is making is insane right now. Granted we lose a ton of money as well, but the numbers demonstrated at fanfest were collected before districts were a thing. So for example, in fanfest CCP said Dust had destroyed as much ISK as EVE has ever produced, and Dust has only been out for about a year. Now.... I know for a fact that not everyone was broke during fanfest. Which means as much as isk that was destroyed, there was just as much if not more isk that wasn't destroyed yet. and that was was WITHOUT districts. Now that we have what are essentially money presses pumping out hundreds of millions on the daily, AND taxes which also pump out millions on the daily, its only a matter of time before money becomes so abundant that the value of it will go down.
This is why ISK sinks will play a key role. If you look at Eve Online, they have a ton of ISK sinks everywhere. Most of them are really small such as broker fees for setting up contracts, broker fees for setting up individual buy/sell orders, taxes imposed on NPC customs offices orbiting the planets where PI colony owners are situated, fees for setting up and expanding on PI colonies, SCC taxes imposed on sending messages to players outside your corp, upkeep costs for maintaining the existence of your alliance, upkeep costs for maintaining the operations of all your territories in Null Sec space, etc.
My proposal is a fair one in regards to what to do with the excessive ISK generated by the districts. Most of which are getting locked by alt corps nowadays. It involves implementing upkeep costs for every district owned and this proposal borrows a page from the POS maintenance in Eve Online and the PI colony setup as well.
Let's say you own a district in Molden Heath. That districts has various upkeep costs imposed on it. One cost for fueling the outposts in order to keep them functional at all, another (but smaller cost) for the smaller sockets of the same set surrounding the outposts. The more structures you have in your district, the higher the cost for fuel. These costs would be small but have a daily cycle that resets every downtime. Thus the cost becomes cumulative over time per district. There would also be another cost for repairs that need to be done after suffering an attack (if the attackers win, they foot the bill).
This is one way of implementing upkeep costs so that slowly the amount of ISK in circulation can start to dwindle assuming CCP balances the ISK sink with the ISK faucet. This also has the added benefit of ensuring that no one alliance has total control of all the districts because the upkeep costs and effort needed to keep track of such costs will discourage the power blocs from holding too much land unless they are willing to make Dust 514 their second job just like how Eve players with director positions treat Eve like a second job.
What do you think? |