To mesh the economies without breaking DUST beyond repair, will require an exchange rate and possibly a transfer cap.

Logically you cannot achieve equilibrium between the 2 games. In Eve you fund super expensive star ships but in Dust you are funding only a soldier. They can never be similar in price because it makes no sense.

I would like to see an isk reset, isk at the time being on dust is unbalanced due to PC and when CCP sold your salvage items that were outdated, some got mega rich while people that are new or didnt go for certain suits vehicles etc got left behind. I myself have 100mil plus, and even that is way to much. Once eve can transfer isk over, it will get even worse.

Its like real life, rich get richer, poor are reduced to skin and bone.

Hindsight tells me this idea wont be popular, but the only people whinging are the ones that got mega rich for stupid reasons, and are just to greedy to give it up.

The principle issue we are ignoring here is the lack of ISK sinks in Dust.

As I said its not a popular idea, and I never stated that anyone that doesnt like it is greedy, only those that got there isk through stupid reasons, such as PC farming or the sale of outdated items that seen some get rich while most didnt. I would gladly sacrifice all my isk for a fresh start on isk gaining.

When they sold off the tank items, I had a total of 650 million isk rounded off. Since then ive donated most of it to fellow corp members that have absolutely nothing and even then I dont see many of them playing anymore. Over the past few months im lucky to have spent 10million isk on vehicles and dropsuits IF THAT.

So take your attacks and suck on them lols, in the nicest way possible

when it comes to it, i would think that inflating the cost of a militia fit medium suit to cost 500,000 would be beyond a joke."

edit: your argument for an inflated DUST isk to reach parity, and your argument against a DUST currency because its inherent value would be less than on par with an isk, are self defeating.

The trick is to force prices to adjust slowly, so that the value players truly place on these things can be found without economic shocks killing trade. Adding yet another currency merely hides all of this (poorly) behind a flimsy curtain. It changes nothing and adds unnecessary complexity to cross-game trade. The intention is for us to provide resources that eve players want. When you're making those trades you want the process to be as simple as possible.

No harm, no foul.

I understand that the solution may not be reseting all isk, but it seemx the only logical way to do it without someone being able to abuse a solution to put the game back where it it, an idea that just popped into mind would be to pool all the isk I dust and spread it out evenly amongst the playerbase, but even that will see players with alts getting more then others (maybe per ip address) and even that will see family members playing on the same ip address missing out, its just a very sensitive thing that can easily make or break.

CCP, may need to ditch the current player base and take a step back (which ultimately might be a step forward in the long run) make a new server alongside the one we play now forcing players to start over either altogether or to transfer your character over at the cost of all your isk and may even cutting your sp In half or all of it.

Either way I would be up for that as well. Keeping all the players that just wont give it up a chance to keep doing what they want on there own server and vise versa for newer players to enjoy themselves and to build a better playerbase.

Keep in mind these are just ideas, and flaws will appear

what you are doing is offering a service that skirts the inability to transfer isk, you are not actually transferring isk.

It may be that there is no reason to adjust the lore...

The costing of mercenary gear vs capsuleer, is not a matter of rarity nor technological complexity (both lore wise and mechanically), costing should be based upon and production cost with a profit margin based upon demand and supply.

To make a mercenary fitting cost as much as a frigate similarly fitted for aggression is taking the scale too far, the aggregate material costs are not proportionate, nor based upon scale of end product could they be. ...Once again, you cannot ignore the material cost of the product.

Inflating DUST isk artificially and to a point where basic game and market mechanics are ignored, in order to maintain it as a currency is both inelegant and overly convoluted.

By giving DUST its own currency and then establishing an exchange rate, you bypass the need to inflate DUST's economy and you bring forward the date by which time we can expect Eve Production to begin supply of merc gear (also known as merging the markets).

I would guess that you are bleeding off isk generated from locking districts ...

... to suggest that a suit which will likely see one production run=100 units should then cost more than a frigate hull simply to satisfy a desire to maintain a single unit of currency across two very different games, with very different attrition rates and very different methods of warfare.

... a seperate currency because its inherent value would be less than an EVE isk...

I hear the idea of using inflation to push DUST into viability, but a part of me wants to resist that path because my (limited) knowledge of EvE's industrial and market place systems provokes within me disquiet at the thought of DUST being used to provide incomes for Eve to the detriment of DUST players.

This is just a sentiment with me, if i have intuited wrong i apologise, and education was always the harder (for me) when hot feelings are involved, please none the less, educate me to my errors.

I like the idea of fluctuating price levels, driven by supply and demand. This seems to me an indicator of a healthy market (?). And unless i've edited it out during the writing process, i am fairly sure that i've said as much earlier, ill have to reread i guess.

on revision, the central point of my initial suggestion is that i do not believe that the economies will ever reach parity. There is much talk about increasing the amount of isk floating around DUST till a normalised average comparable to a per capita Eve wealth index, or some such(?). Yet the only way to feasibly achieve this For the vast majority of DUst players is to inflate their incomes. Inflating incomes without inflating costs would ruin the game, so the hand in hand approach would be to inflate costs as well.

Hopefully isk transfers become available some time soon. >.< ( in game), so i can fund my DUST adventures with my EvE toons