Vrain Matari
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Posted - 2013.03.13 15:17:00 -
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CCP FoxFour wrote:We are aware of the disparity between value of ISK in EVE and DUST. We want the two to come closer together yet need to balance the idea of a gun costing the same as a battleship, that would be no good.
The first step in this is going to be getting more income to DUST corporations and giving them something more expensive to spend this new found money on.
This says something important, i think. It's a confirmation of unique raw materials required for the manufacture of DUST gear.
If DUST gear were to be built exclusively from EVE minerals, cost of production, distance to market, market pvp and all the other traditional factors would set the market price of a Gallente AR, for example. The Creodron would be more expensive because it used more expensive components in its manufacture.
Prices might be expensive for DUST mercs, but things would be consistent. Pricing would be a matter of supply and demand, market fixing, etc. So a plasma rifle sold for the cost of a battleship could be believable and consistent, depending on market conditions. But this would be very easy to balance for CCP, and would not be something that they were very concerned about.
And practically speaking, if DUST gear used only EVE minerals, tens of thousands of EVE industrialists would be making DUST gear in the first month, if there was even a slim margin in it.
But if DUST gear is made using from special resources availiable only on planets, then all bets are off. The effects of these new inputs on the New Eden Economy would be hard to predict and cause for concern. Meshing the planetary resource economy and the celestial resource economies could very easily become a messy business for CCP.
That's why i'm thinking the concern expressed by the devs is evidence of new strategic resources for planets, different from what PI(Planetary Interaction) is yeilding now.
This isn't really news, and has been at least implied several times before by CCP.
Thinking about how to do this merger of resource economies, all i have to offer is an observation from another player made on these same forums a long time ago: it will be a far easier thing to merge as much at the beginning of the process than later on. Once players have invested time and effort in their isolated, artificially-protected DUST economy, the fixes required to normalize with the EVE economy later on may seem absolutely pathological. |
Vrain Matari
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Posted - 2013.03.13 15:22:00 -
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CCP FoxFour wrote:We are aware of the disparity between value of ISK in EVE and DUST. We want the two to come closer together yet need to balance the idea of a gun costing the same as a battleship, that would be no good.
The first step in this is going to be getting more income to DUST corporations and giving them something more expensive to spend this new found money on.
Imma help uze gaize, even iffa u don need it.
The 'more income' needs to come from strategic resources, not an arbitrary ISK faucet. Stategic to the geopolitics of both economies. |
Vrain Matari
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Posted - 2013.03.14 12:18:00 -
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low genius wrote:thumbs way down.
you can't limit the amount of isk to be transferred to your dust account, that breaks the sandbox concept.
True, but by the same token, if you're travelling by Autobahn, there are intelligent and foolish ways to merge with high speed trafic. |