But even unofficially the exchange rate does exist, what is the lore behind it? Why does ISK in Eve convert to less ISK in Dust? It's the same ISK right? Answer is, because it has to or else you break Dust (Eve is in no danger.)

planetary currency is actually talked about in certain EvE missions.....

i dont understand you fascination with whether someone cares about something as a basis for its inherent value.


I don't really care for or indeed particularly like gravity... but that doesnt change its fundamental role in my life and indeed in the continuing operation of the solar system that i live in and one could speculate that it does indeed have some say in the ongoing day to day of the galaxy and possibly the universe.... but to many people really care about gravity.... (?)

you tell me...

they still wont allow exchanging of currency between dust and eve because it would inflate plex prices and potentially decrease the active eve players

I'm not sure that's true, because the idea expressed here...



... is premised upon the idea that items in Eve and Dust have an objective value, unrelated to the time players spend to earn resources. Time spent by human beings playing each game is what drives the current exchange rate between Dust and Eve (which is about [Dust isk 1 to Eve isk 5] and [Eve isk 10 to Dust isk 1]). I presume that exchange rate is holding somewhat consistently because in aggregate, it is somewhere between 5x and 10x easier to earn an isk in Eve, compared to Dust.

The exchange rate is currently driven by the ease with which isk is earned in each game, but can potentially be driven by the effect each game can have on the other. We're not seeing much of that effect on the exchange rate yet, except in the most wildly speculative sense.

I've converted about 30B Eve isk and 5 or 6B Dust isk between the games, over the course of about 150 transactions. The unofficial exchange hasn't destroyed Dust. To the contrary, I think its fostered interest in Dust among Eve players, and interest in Eve among Dust players. CCP should build an official exchange that makes it easy for Dust players to take their saved Dust isk, convert it to Eve isk, buy a plex (sold to them by an Eve player who paid CCP RL money for that plex) and keep playing Eve after their free trial runs out. CCP should build an official exchange that makes it easy for Eve players to fund Dust corps while they fight on the ground in a way that help their efforts in Eve. PC should be more than a friendly-locked isk printing machine, particularly while Dust isk is so much more valuable than Eve isk.

A currency serves a purpose and arises organically even in the absence of an official medium of exchange. When you argue for a second currency, its characteristics should serve the intended purpose. A second currency that has the same problem of being less wealth producing for a player's time spent earning it, doesn't resolve the desperate earning potentials between Eve and Dust. The only lore solution is to deflate the value of Dust isk toward parity with Eve isk. You can't do that with a second currency; you can only do that by causing price inflation within Dust to catch up with Eve prices.

You want something like parity? Multiply every isk held by a Dust player or Corp, and every payout and price in Dust by x7.5. Bingo, price equality, and easy market integration. Lore can not overpower the actual economic incentive players experience.

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.

While I do agree with you, its far to late for it to have any effect, unless its based on a percentage of isk rather then a base number, therefore the more isk you have the more u have to lay down for certain things such as upkeep, or items.