Originally by: Ranka Mei

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Originally by: Stevens

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I don't understand how basic supply and demand economics can elude some people in this thread. The primary source of demand in EVE is PVPers losing shops. That is an irrefutable fact. Moving beyond fact I would be willing to argue that over 75% of the ships lost in eve are lost due to PVP. If this demand was removed the market would collapse in on itself. The demand would crash and supply would shoot up.

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And I fail to understand how people who profess to possess an inkling of knowledge about economics fail to see that, without income, you can't buy ANY ship, no matter how much it's in demand, or how good it's being supplied. What is the very first thing people do when the economy goes bad? Exactly: spend less money. Less money -> Less PvP. Without enough disposable income, people simply won't, erm, dispose of it. Why is that so difficult to grasp?

Hence, nerfing Lv 4's is bad. And yes, it's a nerf, because I couldn't give a rat's ass about getting stupid tags in return: I rather keep the reprocessable loot, thank you.

And if CCP were even half-way serious about boosting mining, they should finally do something about those zillion Russian macro-miners (I dunno, ban Russia?). So, they're simply being very hypocritical about the reasons for nerfing Lv 4's.

Now here is a novel idea: instead of painstakingly analyzing server logs, in a once-every-5-years 'Holy Rage' op, make cloaky NPC belt rats that recognize bot patterns, and who come out to shoot the macro-miner with Concord-like deadly firepower. Now, THAT would be a mining boost! Until then, leave missioners alone!

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