Only if they come in the form of bounties.

Just a pretty simple request / proposal actually.

Most folks don't get overly concerned with SP grind...they know it's a long used MMO staple and ultimately the SP earned is invested and permanent (mostly ).

ISK, however, is a very different story. This is currently one the most serious imbalances in the game and perhaps the least addressed. I rarely hear teammates complain about not having enough SP...the economic factors of not having enough ISK are far more prevalent. The secondary bonus of increasing ISK generateion through events and other means is increased tax revenue which leads to Corps potentially being able to purchase more clone packs which can inject content into the PC game mode.

Basically, I think CCP has done some solid steps with the suit / weapon based events that grant some additional ISK, however, i think they can take a couple easy steps to help folks out.

Proposal -
1) Offer periodic accelerated ISK events in the same format as the accelerated SP events...basically triple the ISK payout for a week.

2) Have ISK boosters that can be AUR purchased and provide a moderate increase to ISK production. We have them for LP and SP...a few very limited runs of these boosters would probably help quite a bit.

3) Long term idea might be to have a very SP intensive skill (say...x10 modifier) that increases your ISK payouts for public contracts by 10% per level.

Thoughts?

Weren't the recent Mauler (heavy) and Commando Contingency events ISK boosters as well as SP boosters? In each event, you could earn up to 10M ISK for killing the desired class (heavies/commandos). And people would be running those suits, because they would want to earn the SP, so there would be plenty of targets.

Honestly, if you're ISK poor, your either running too expensive gear, or playing far too aggressively. A corpie of mine plays very aggressively and dies 10-20 times a map. A few months ago he switched his fits around so that his average suit cost went from 55K to 18K. In the process, he went from hemorrhaging ISK, to turning a hefty profit.

I would actually rather all isk payouts be substantially reduced. The solution isn't going to be making everyone rich, that just means us fat cats get even richer. No, what we need is to make all the wealthy players poor by making any game in proto gear (and most in advanced) an isk negative experience.

New players are going to be running cheaper gear anyway and will keep making profits. Older players need to be bled dry.

Please note this is coming from a wealthy closed beta vet.

That to offset AFK payouts?

I'm in favor of activity being rewarded. The kill events don't support all playstyles - that's my only beef with them.

You could look at a away increase ISK payouts for logi actions in an event and couple that with the bounties...not sure how cumbersome that would be though.

New players in militia & standard don't make much profit against closed beta vets with the ability to run near endless proto gear.

with skills to level 5 running a basic commando suit and shield mods costing a whole of 9k isk even with 10 deaths in a match i still walk out with 50k to 150k of profit so really there is no isk problem it just comes down to understanding what the hell you are doing and not taking that really nice expensive proto fit suit out to proto stomp.

In eve they say don't fly what you can't afford to replace, same goes in dust don't run the expensive suits if you can not afford to replace them or give yourself a death limit on those suits if you die 5 times switch to a freebie suit or a cheaper fit so you don't walking away with less isk then you walked in there with.

^This. Although personally I go for the bigger picture in that I judge by my performance/profits over a session/day/week and not by the game.

Edit: As for the older player's ISK being trimmed, how would that be fair? Most of them earned their ISK by hours of grinding. It would be like CCP taking away millions of ISK from Capsuleers who Mine 10-15 hours a day because someone who just started mining won't be earning the same amount. Why tax a Mining Barge because he can mine more than a Mining Frigate? Why tax a Duster that grinds almost 24/7 because others can't?

We're not talking about those who have millions that earned it just how they do today. That won't necessarily be different at all. Lots of us just make a steady budget. I still make money even with the decrease in payout in 1.8. We're talking about those who have literally billions of isk sitting on a district and the number of people who have that aren't necessarily a large part of our organization. People think whole corps are rich when in reality its the top 10 or so people in said corp who are.

As for the why, trimming that down is vital to the stability of the economy when the player market comes out and even more so when the eve and dust community is connected.