Edit: nevermind, suggestion. NPC sold snowballs. For our snowball launchers.

dear OP

I am truly sorry to read you have run out of isk. If you contact me in-game, I will be happy to supply you with one (1) unit of Draeks.

sincerly, Phill

Currently, money leaves only when paying taxes, skill books, insurance, and fees.

Incursions were a pretty bit flow of ISK, but they were a drop in the bucket compared to nullsec ratting.

Make new skins for ships.
Make skin application a rig like addition that paints the ship and in turn is lost when ship pops.
Paint costs a lot of isk. Screw Aur.

Oh, and nerf insurance more.
Make NPC corp tax 50%

NPC bounties did in total, and those bounties were split between ratting and missions. So depending on how popular you want to assume highsec missions are, incursions generated somewhere between the same and half the amount of nullsec ratting.

I don't know how much pressure skins would put on the server.

When people stop playing their isk no longer matters, even though it is technically still part of the game. The biggest isk sink is the players who leave the game. And lots of players leave.

Remove $ for ISK aka PLEX

DarthNafarious: I knew I had forgotten something, but I doubt that a new level of LP rewards would come anywhere close. I would rather have new mechanics to remove isk from circulation and be a little looser with base income for newer players.

Vincent: Of course you need to scale up, but you don't need an overall increase in the total amount of currency in order to make that happen. You simply need a methodology that allows the transfer of existing currency out of null sec alliances back into new characters, or to leave existing income in place and place new sinks in null sec, so that new players are uneffected by those sinks while they are climbing from newbie ships to cruisers and battleships.

So, I was going over a variety of Fanfest prestentations and there was something that alarmed me. There is way more isk being created than destroyed. I don't know if y'all are aware, but that's a bad thing because the value of currency itself changes over time. There being more money in everyone's pocket makes each unit of currency is worth less and therefore you need more of it in order to buy the same amount of stuff. If your income isn't increasing at the same rate or faster than that process leads to people getting frustrated, poor, and ultimately playing other games.

Currently, money leaves only when paying taxes, skill books, insurance, and fees. The VALUE of the economy is balanced by ship destruction, but no money is lost when a ship explodes. So, the total number of isk doesn't go down, even though that explosion requries some of that isk move around.

So, the point. How do we get rid of the actual isk themselves in a way that doesn't hurt our souls and make us howl with rage? What can we do that allows us to dump hard currency out of circulation entirely that doesn't replace people creating value by their own hard work?

I don't want to sit down and have to suggest isk-shooting gatling cannons.

Remove $ for ISK aka PLEX