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Tekota
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Posted - 2011.11.14 08:13:00 -
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To be honest, most of what is listed there is not the destruction of isk but the destruction of minerals.
Isk sinks are any time you pay, with isk, an NPC corp for any good or service. So, sales tax, brokers fees, LP store purchases, T1 BPO purchases, office rental fees, insurance paid for but not claimed upon etc.
Just wondering where the balance is with isk sinks and how the mony that comes in to EvE leaves EvE.
That one is trickier, I guess this will always only ever be known (if it is) by CCP. My only sure fire hunch is that more money must be coming into eve than leaving but the ratio would be a complete guess. |
Tekota
The Freighter Factory
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Posted - 2011.11.14 08:21:00 -
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Goodgodyourface wrote:
It's still disappearing ISK, since we don't all barter... someone paid ISK for that ore/minerals, and while the chain may be a long one, it still comes down to how much is floating on the market or in peoples' wallets in liquid assets.
It's isk disappearing from your wallet for sure - but it's isk going into someone elses wallet (eg a miner). Now there's some sales tax applied to that transaction sure (which is an isk sink) but otherwise you're merely shuffling isk from one player to another. |
Tekota
The Freighter Factory
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Posted - 2011.11.14 10:49:00 -
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Not so sure sales/broker taxes are as insignificant as you may think.
Typical daily volume of Tritanium in Jita is 30 billion units - multiply by 3.3 and we get an isk volume of 99 billion isk. Finger in the air guess of typical tax revenue being 1% (0.5% sales tax and c. 0.5% brokers fees - this is probably a lowball guess) and we see just under 1 billion isk removed every day just on Trit sales and just in Jita.
Use the same guestimation on PLEX and we see a 2500 daily volume at c.430m apiece for an isk volume of over 1 trillion isk per day - 1% of this being 10 billion isk.
So sales of just Trit and Plex, just in Jita, are potentially removing around 11b of isk from the economy every day.
As already noted above, rats will generally (beyond, eg. LP store bought faction mods) be destroying materials rather than isk but I agree that insurance is going to be a net faucet.
Players quitting with isk in their wallet is, as you say, perhaps the only isk "sink" in that it holds the potential for being realised later on wheras other things we refer to as isk "sinks" are more isk shredders. |
Tekota
The Freighter Factory
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Posted - 2011.11.14 11:57:00 -
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That is interesting, I'd forgotten about that (and concur, would be nice to see QEN, but apparently unlikely tor return). Just been re-reading; a lot of the skill book purchases in that quarter were put down to the learning skill removals (and people buying new skills with the released SP) and a lot of the BPO purchases were Noctis - 2 trillion isk spent on Noctis prints in one month!
I would guess that at the very least we can quadruple that figure come the release of the tier 3 BC prints. |
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