Imagine this...

Why the **** would I revoke access to my own ******* wallet?

Also, I was under the impression that while could join alliances in Eve from dust, you would have to create a separate corp and/or holding company in Dust.


Still begs the question, Why even have contract system? If the game is going to go the way many think it is then the market would be flooded with cheap money within a day locking 99% of the player base out of the market.

Something tells me that it's not going to be how you think it's going to be - FYI

The simple fact that EVE players have billions of disposable income is one of THE BIGGEST reasons why cost should not balance. Sure a Dust player may eventually transfer a few billion isk to their account from EVE and then buy the most expensive tank in the game. What does this do? In a free market system those players purchasing the most expensive tank like its nothing will greatly inflate the cost of the tanks since the supply can't keep up with the demand. Without billions of isk you may not be able to use those tanks frequently due to the inflation. The reason cost shouldn't be a balancing factor is because now that tank is so expensive that nothing should ever destroy it.

If you balance weapons without looking at cost and let the market decide the price point you don't have this problem. I would gladly let rich players buy millions upon millions of the prototype tanks for billions if not trillions of isk because that means that every other version of tank is now dirt cheap because there is a huge supply and low demand. Now i am casually able to buy the second best tank in the game as if it is nothing and with proper skills, fitting, and a bit of luck can still hold my own against the top tier tank with some help. Not to mention you will see people grinding out anti tank weapons as they will be a cheaper alternative to deal with a threat.

Balance every weapon based on its pro's and con's, what it is good against and what its counters are. Let the marketplace decide how expensive said item should be based on availability of the resources and time it takes to pump out the item. Even though in the beginning prices will be inflated outrageously by players selling items for 100x what they cost to make due to buyers buying them, there will be competitors continuously undercutting until the community finally settles on a number that is a reasonable profit without taking a loss. That is how the free market works and that is why you don't let an arbitrary value like cost dictate how good something is.


Example: If cost was the balancing factor in the computer market then Apple would make the most powerful and reliable machines out there. The fact of the matter is, they don't. Price means nothing more to a product than what people are willing to pay for it. If people weren't willing to pay 2k for a mediocre laptop then you would see the prices dropping to the 800 range where they should be because cost means nothing.

How when I can just "OPEN MY OWN WALLET TO MYSELF" and buy 6000 tanks on day one?

Not to jump on you PPH, but just using it to make a point that some people may be planning or counting on eventualities that never materialize.

And I want the pain of that realization to sink in.

The rest of your post becomes invalid when you start with the premise that Cost is a balancing factor.

Cost should not be a balancing factor... at all. I'm surprised I've had to say this this many times.

It definitely shouldn't be a MAJOR balancing factor.

But it definitely SHOULD be a balancing factor. If it isn't, then money has no value. And if money has no value, there's no use playing.

Expensive gear should be valuable. That means it needs to be worth something. If not, there's no use for it, so nobody will use it.

But expensive gear should ALSO be hard to use for its rewards, or only have an advantage in being easier to use rather than better, or should have some IMMEDIATE cost involved for you to use it as well as the purchase cost, or have some other limiting factor to balance it IN ADDITION TO THE PRICE.