Mars Theran
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Posted - 2012.04.27 03:56:00 -
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VaMei wrote:CCP Sreegs wrote:Ines Fy wrote:Your economics guy was complaining that was too much isk in the economy.
He also says that goods are not isk and removing goods is not a sink for the isk.
So what about the Eve Central Bank make an auction of of this seized goods with starting bids of 50% the market value and this way the ECB can remove even more isk from the economy and we all win in the process? One problem I have with this is that we're seeing patterns of activity where the isk is botted up and in this case we're printing isk at a rate which it should not be happening at out of thin air. At the end of the day though I'm not an economics guy so the assets sit in the banned accounts until or unless someone decides to use them for something. I'd considered at one point using them as a reward system but I can't get over the fact that a lot of this stuff just simply shouldnGÇÖt exist and that can't be good for an economy. I like the idea of an GÇÿEBCGÇÖ. It gives CCP a tool to sink isk from the economy without manipulating taxes & fees. Using confiscated goods (goods only, no isk) to do it would be rather like a SheriffGÇÖs Auction, but the isk would go back to the central bank rather than continuing to circulate. I understand that you have reservations about returning ill-gotten goods to the economy, but thereGÇÖs a sizeable amount of isk in circulation that was created through illicit means as well; and Dr. E. seems to be more worried about the isk at this point.
Basically the same thing I thought of when I read that post. Government and police often do auction of assets seized from criminals and those unable to pay their tax debts, and banks do the same with foreclosed homes, etc.. Would be an interesting way of redistributing assets on seized accounts while sinking ISK back to CCP to destroy.
I can't see how they would spend it, so it is effectively destroyed as far as I'm concerned. This also offsets the issue of redistibuting assets that were gathered by botting and such being inappropriate. Wipe the ISK on the accounts, redistribute the assets, sink the ISK from that redistribution and remove it from game.
Obviously there are going to be some assets which may be very common and potentially capable of unsettling the market in a mass redistribution, and there is the possibility that only the truly wealthy of EVE may pick up those redistributed assets. Okay, that one is very likely.
It's not like most of us have the ability to compete in auctions for anything worth anything, and auctioning T1 items in bits would be tedious at best. Stacking everything of common value and either deleting it or auctioning it wholesale would make more sense. 1000 T1 small lasers for example. as a lot item for auction. The problem being that suddenly somebody has a 1000 small T1 lasers to flood the market with at more than they paid and very likely highly competative prices.
Expensive Tech 2 ships, T3s, and Faction, Complex, and Officer stuff would make more sense. Storyline to I suppose, or other rare items that don't fall into any of those categories.
That said, it is both a good idea and a bad idea for the various reasons mentioned and more I can't be bothered to-or couldn't-think of I'm sure.
Also: o/\o <-- It's funny, I always thought that was an owl. 
+ voted most interesting thread (so far) 2012.
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