Maybe at current prices, Yes... but Dust prices will NOT stay at their current price point once the market interaction is in.

I for one will make sure of it. I make my Isk market trading and i intend to do the same thing here in dust as i do in EVE.

I'm guessing 20bil or more, it's a micro managing nightmare that few take pleasure in..

So is the idea to phase out buying gear from the game itself in favor of player created stuff, because otherwise why would anyone pay more than the market price for a weapon? Or are you just planning on obtaining and reselling rare gear/BPOs for profit?

I was fairly poor in eve, I would use 20mil isk frigates on suicide roams to see if we could kill something. kdr of around .02. Ships were cheap so didn't care about death, extra 40mil or so if I was podded(skill implants in head were lost if escape pod is killed).

I had 80 million isk ships blowup few time in evening of playing, still made profit with casual gaming. The isk will flow few dozen ways, but traders will try to undercut each other, so prices won't get that out of wack for most items. I suspect proto gear won't be made directly by players, resold from drops, so it will remain expensive as it's bid up in market.

I never did PI, but can't multiple people have interactions on a single planet? I mean, 10 people bringing in 100m a month means a billion isk for the corp overall.

On average the set up to make those robotics would be some 30mil per planet which although an investment is such a small cost in the over all picture that it's going to be hard not to just simply change your facilities to somewhere else and keep on producing.
That's the main issue with PI and always has, too cheap, too expendable and just too damn convenient to abandon your facilities on a planet once you don't need them any more.

YOU IMBECILES DON'T KNOW HOW TO COUNT AND THINK THAT BECAUSE I EXTRACTED / MINED IT, IT'S FREE OF CHARGE.?...


Typical pubbie train of thought. I hate that way of thinking, it's such a false economy.


You know Dust is going to be the biggest ISK sink in EVE.... It's going to kill or cure our economic issues.

Game design thanks you for introducing the best ISK sink yet into EVE.

Thanks carl that clears up eaxactly the question I had asked.. and it was great playing with you BTW i hope you will squad with me again soon although at times i could not always understand your accent but mine is somewhat hard to understand for some also.. peace brother.

uhh....

Basically what i've been told is planets can dump out 100-500mil isk a month, so basically one planet being defended could be used to hold up a entire team wasting tanks and all that stuff.

presumably to fund the CONCORD's toilet paper bill or something.

It would be interesting if PI was the major thing to fight over... It would mean less ppl would do it and the ppl that did would have to account for the defense prices in thier costs, so all of the PI stuff and anything that uses it would go up in cost. That includes tech 2, capitals, structures, and fuel.... probably tech 3 also, but Ive never looked at their manufacturing list.

So I currently have a stock pile of PI stuff that is worth about a billion. If I hold onto it long enough, then it could be worth 5x that much.