R3dSh1ft
Dark Knights of Deneb Against ALL Authorities
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Posted - 2009.03.16 11:44:00 -
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Ok so everybody has a wallet with some isk in it, add to that all the isk in player corporation wallets. This total (whatever it may be) is the value of the eve economy, lets give it an imaginary value of 1000 trillion.
Everybody has a share in it (maybe a negative one) as a percentage of the total isk, right.
So some ******* has crap loads of ships and assets, but none of that matters in this discussion, we are only concerned with his wallet, lets say he has 1b isk, that means his buying power in the eve world is some tiny percentage like 0.000000000000001%
Ok fine, we can all understand that ... but, at the same time that total amount of isk in the economy is changing, right, so his buying power is either going up or going down over time depending on whether the economy is inflating or deflating.
All those ratters and NPC good traders etc and people getting insurance are sucking money from "nowhere" to increase the total value of the eve economy - this is an isk faucet.
When you have to pay a repair bill, or buy something from the NPCs, pay a sales tax or maybe buy a skill, that isk goes back into "nowhere" decreasing the total value of the eve economy - this is an isk sink.
Some of the more notable isk sinks include: * Capital ship skills * Capital ship insurance that is not claimed * Starbase fuel * Items from the loyalty shop
If the number of players, value of isk sinks and isk faucets are not carefully balanced this can lead to runaway inflation, so that matey above sees his buying power fall by half or more during the 3 month break he took to go ride bikes.
Many people are concerned about this because there are a lot of mission runners and macro farmers and "professional" eve players who are flooding the eve economy with these isks. Over time CCP have got smart and reduced the income share due to bounties from about 90% in the beginning to now something like 10% if you are running 0.0 complexes, the rest of the income being made up from items like salvage and faction mods which are instead material faucets - but thats another issue altogether :)
I hope people who didn't previously understand the concept now appreciate what faucets and sinks in this context mean.
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