Originally by: Gnulpie

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Originally by: xttz

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Originally by: Gnulpie

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Originally by: EvilweaselFinance

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people who are worried about inflation have missed the trillion-isk/month (at least) isk sink that just got added to the game

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What trillion isk / month??
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How many maxed out 0.0 systems could exist? 100? 1000?

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There are currently:
2204 Systems with sov between 1 and 4

If every system with sov currently claimed was carried over without upgrades into Dominion, its a 528b/year isk sink.
If every conq station was fully upgraded, its a 467bn isk sink plus around 1-2bn per system for all hubs and upgrades required.
Now throw in all the Hubs, upgrades TCUs and BCUs that will be bought and lost as territory is invaded and conqured.

If anything 1 trillion is too small an estimate.

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Let's assume all those 2204 systems would be upgraded to the max.

Then the upkeep costs would be: 39 mil upkeep per day * 2204 systems * 30 days = 2579 billion isk upkeep per month

Now if we assume also that 1/20 of the systems have military index 5, if we assume that one anomaly takes 1 hour and that all anomalies could be occupied 50% of the time and that each of those high-end anomalies pay 10 mil in bounty, then we will have an _additional_ income from those anomalies alone: 110 systems * 20 anomalies * 23 anomaly respawns/day * 0.50 occupancy * 10 mil per anomaly * 30 days = 7590 billion isk income per month

So, you have 2579 billion additional costs due to upkeep. But you have 7590 billion income from those anomalies. That makes a net additional income after Dominion of 5.01 TRILLION isk per month.

Now please explain me, where is that deflation?



And my assumptions are pretty conservative: only 5% of the systems maxed out, only 50% coverage of the anomalies, only 10 mil income for each anomaly, up to one hour time to run one anomaly, and ALL current sov systems also claimed and max upgraded after Dominion. Also I didn't consider the non-maxed systems.

If 20% systems are maxed, 66% coverage of the anomalies, 15 mil income and 45 minutes time for each anomaly, then you would have an income from those anomalies of 80 trillion per month compared to 2.6 trillion expanses due to upkeep. That are 960 trillion in one year. I think that this is a pretty large sum and IS significant for the economy.


A word from CCP might be nice here.

How many systems do you expect to have a maxed out military index? How many systems do you think SHOULD be maxed out?

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