Big whoop no source

Anyways BPO dont ruin any economy since we dont have one and all BPOs are basic anyways

The economy is the creation and destruction of isk. Isk is clearly being created and destroyed, and CCP studies this stuff. Their economist had a presentation at last year's fanfest about the Dust economy. Getting the creation and destruction of isk into balance is the biggest stumbling block to get over before the Dust economy can begin to merge with Eve. If the economy is creating far more isk than it is destroying and players get to start deciding the price of things, prices will skyrocket like we're in Weimar Germany.

"The raw amounts of ISK floating around EVE and generated at such high quantities would offset so much point in DUST it would ruin the game for some"

I've heard before that there's actually more isk in the Dust economy than in Eve, which isn't entirely implausible. The Eve economy is well balanced and has very controlled inflation. Most economic activity is moving isk around, not generating it out of thin air. Meanwhile in Dust the isk faucet has been running at full blast. At fanfest people were pretty shocked to see the amount of isk we had created here.

There's really no reason why they couldn't merge the economies. They've said they'd start out with a large tax for transferring isk from Eve to Dust, which would prevent the ability to flood the Dust economy and ruin it. Over time they would slowly lower this tax. What that means is that prices in Dust will go up across the board as will our income. That means that we may be paying as much for a dropsuit as a frigate, which while it seems silly will work.

It's not that much of a problem. John Demonsbane proposed the most likely solution above: BPO manufacturing will still have a mineral input cost.

Imo the PC income is pretty obviously the biggest driver of ISK inflation in DUST.

Wrt the size of the DUST EVE economies, it's already been shown that DUST's economy is already giving EVE a run for it's money, and that's with our pathetically low player numbers.

Wrt to balancing the economies it will be possible. Prolly the most stable solution would be to balance around extraction of strategic resources common to both economies. There could still be clones, but clone manufacture would go from being magic to being a manufacturuing process that had material inputs. For this we want clones to become a commodity in EVE first, and in DUST as well - right now we're not paying for our clones in DUST pubs or FW - we prolly should be.

We'll have an integrated economy, and for my money before this time next year. But it'll be kind of crippled in terms of gameplay-generation for us in DUST if we don't have a robust contract system.

The amount of ISK saved by BPO's is more than what is generated by Plantary Conquest.