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Posted - 2017.07.10 13:43:04 -
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Pirate BS have been cheap for way too long IMHO. It should have never been allowed for these ships to reach this low level. By adjusting drop rates and such over the past years, instead of a mega change right now after not touching them for so long.
But that's the fault of past management, which hasn't been ideal, but nothing we can do to change now (i.e. CCP should have done it better/earlier but oh well, it will just have to be done now).
I think increasing the 'cost' of pirate BS is the best option as the 'first step'. Surely there would be other steps to follow, which could include ship balance changes in terms of bonuses, functions, specifications, etc. But these are secondary issues to be looked at. The price of pirate BS has to increase in order to make any possible future changes to have any meaning. It wouldn't make sense to bring any ship balance changes without first tweaking with pirate BS costs, and although people talk about market already changing for this now, it is much better to tweak with cost now than after you release the new ship balances - you want people to speculate on it without really knowing what changes will happen to these ships.
As Frostys has said, it's the 'rarity' that will ultimately prove to be significant, not the 'cost'. I think 'right' price range of pirate BS should be at least 1b. This is still easily affordable for most players who have their basic income operations established, but it will not really be a throw-away ship for even people with hundreds of billions. This more psychological IMO. Unless you don't relly care at all, you do not want regular 1b loss mails on your KB. Your wallet can tank it without a problem, but it just start to look pretty stupid if your 10 most recent losses were all over 1b+ loss.
Rarity is also important here. Maybe one could afford to lose officer modules, in terms of ISK it may not matter at all with someone with enough ISK. But how quickly can you replace it, if it's a really rare drop? Also, for AT ships, there are people who can afford them and fly them - it's the 'rarity' that makes it more risky, not the cost - even if you had trillions, if the availability is so limited and no such ship was on market, you don't really want to lose it, not because you can't afford it, but because you can't 'replace' it.
** A bit off topic, but I feel generally many things are in f**ked up prices now. To some extent this is due to 'player driven economy/content' that EVE is famous for, but I think there also had been some silly decisions on game mechanics that devalued many things. I am not as active on the market as I have been before, but I don't really see anything where price has increased significantly over the past year or two. Most things I look at, the prices have actually dropped quite a lot over the 1~2 year periods. All this downward trend in prices (especially of things that cost many times more before, WH stuff, pirate ships, capitals, DED mods, etc) actually happened while people became more and more capable of making more ISK in shorter period of time.
tl;dr - prices have been crashing while people were making more ISK. Doesn't look too good to me
Cheers Love! The cavalry's here!
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