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Iron Wolf Saber
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Posted - 2015.03.23 20:13:00 -
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To understand why you dont balance around isk you need to understand what the purpose of isk and resources is in the overall game design.
Simply put and boiled down; currency is a means of control of content; how frequently players will use the desired item?
Do you want players to use the item ALL the time? you make it cheap. You want to make it so that players only use it on special occasions you make it expensive.
Isk has and never will be used as a justification to make a game play level change; rather the other way around an items power has immensely more dictation of the price tag. Even more sadly item demand and popularity are more capable factors of altering costs than the isk is capable of affecting its stats.
If you must seriously want to try to balance something because of 'resource x,y, or z' Consider the following three
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Iron Wolf Saber
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Posted - 2015.03.25 05:28:00 -
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Gyn Wallace wrote:KEROSIINI-TERO wrote:
That is the resulting price, ie. balance afterwards.[/b][/b]
What OP and everyone is talking about is setting price to something very and using that as a excuse to have something op-ish in the game.
[b][b]So even on theoretical level isk is not a balancing ***tool***
On practical level, free market is now impossible in dust..
Every hotfix, CCP could adjust prices to mimic a player market, by raising the prices of the most used items and reducing the prices of the least used items. If they want use of proto gear to be rarer, raising its price is one way to approach that goal.
Why when players will able to do that themselves pretty soon?
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Iron Wolf Saber
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Posted - 2015.03.25 22:59:00 -
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Eve no longer balances by isk nor have they; they balance the cost of effort in into usefulness out.
I broken down every single mineral price in eve to the point I can converted them into a veldspar unit per hour or a chibba unit. Essentially how long would it take chibbia to mine enough minerals to make it. In so far its been pretty spot on.
None the less a chibba has nothing to do with how much pwnage a ship has.
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