Depends on your definition of healthy.

Healthy according to the OP? No. If I suddenly decide to buy 300 or 400 plex at Jita and just trash them all or go in a bestower and see how far I get and have the plex destroyed, then CCP will be loving that. It won't be good for any of you plexing players though.

Naturally, this thread will be hijacked by the null sec zealots screaming "nerf high sec!", but does anyone at CCP, who is not part of the null sec cadre, have any idea why plex prices are out of control, and have numbers to back it up?

Seems to me to be a simple case of demand out stripping supply, since volume traded appears to be on a downward curve over the last couple of weeks.

I would hazard a guess that demand is coming from FW players plex'ing accounts via proceeds from LP cashouts, possible PLEX hoarding by speculators and the traditionally busier Q4/Q1 just around the corner too.

CCP can stimulate the supply side by further PLEX buying offers in account management, but the adjustment to demand will require a longer term fix. Then again, I pay RL cash for my sub and tend to use PLEX purely for ISK supply so I'm not really worried either way.

And oh so sorry OP, but this "nullsec zealot" doesn't really give a damn about your desire to keep my carefully thought out opinion out of the topic :P

I am interested in CCP's take on it, however.

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3) Nerfing highsec would lower the PLEX price as an overall reduced isk income would force sellers to bid lower. Carebears don't/won't see this, thinking any proposed changes exist solely for the purpose of dumping them into a gatecamp.

1) It's not CCP's job to control the price of stuff (or it shouldn't be).

2) Within the last two months they buffed the amount of ore a single miner could bring in while "improving" FW via letting people farm billions of isk on day-old alts in naked frigs (I've even seen mining frigs used). The increase in isk generation led to an economic event known as "inflation" where prices on everything sky-rocket from an overabundance of currency.

3) Nerfing highsec would lower the PLEX price as an overall reduced isk income would force sellers to bid lower. Carebears don't/won't see this, thinking any proposed changes exist solely for the purpose of dumping them into a gatecamp.

miners are not rolling in ISK its the FW Tier 5 farmers that are the root of the PLEX spike... its NULL/LO SEC that needs the nerfs with thier LP STORE reductions & passive TECH/moon goo incomes

Hundreds of mining bots pop up in high sec over the last 2 months.

Plex prices rocket in the last 2 months.

Yep, it can't be miners!

Talking about bad correlations... miners individually unlike FWfarmers are NOT MAKING BILLIONS OF ISK PER WEEK

Obviously CCP controls the RL $ price of plex, but could CCP be conducting experiments on us by making shadow purchases of plex ingame, and studying the outcome on their spreadsheet, observing the relationships between the variables as number six is experimentally manipulated?

How would we know? Is it a conspiracy to maximize number four and number five, lol? Is it far-fetched bunk?

Does anyone feel it's become a greater and exciting challenge over the last year to pay for your account with plex instead of real money?

Maybe it is just demand. Entirely possible.

I've wondered about people going back to school in the fall too, and whether that has anything to do with it.

nulsec carebears driving up the price with passive moongoo isk.

I think PLEX prices are going to be over 750 mil ea by mid December.

Plex = a monthly cost. I think miners can manage to scrap up enough cash to pay for one and make a little profit. And I am willing to bet there is a hell of a lot more of them.

How does that help CCP at all? If you buy 300 or 400 PLEX, you bought that many PLEX. It doesn't matter much to CCP what happens to the PLEX after that, except that when that much PLEX gets destroyed the cost gets run up and as a result less people will be willing to buy it.

Naturally, this thread will be hijacked by the null sec zealots screaming "nerf high sec!", but does anyone at CCP, who is not part of the null sec cadre, have any idea why plex prices are out of control, and have numbers to back it up?

So you just completely dismiss the LP unbalance that is FW because your focus is solely on high sec miners?
Kewl.

The FW farming scenario will change with the winter patch (1-2 months from now?). AFK mining will still exist. People concerned with rising PLEX prices will be more concerned over longer term prices changes over short term (1-2 month) changes. This makes the discussion around the FW point relatively moot.

Show me please that dev blog or a dev quote where CCP acknowledges that their first mayor FW fix in years missed the boat and they are going to fix it again.

So you just completely dismiss the LP unbalance that is FW because your focus is solely on high sec miners?
Kewl.

Plex price reached 640 mil prob 700 by tommrow . CCP needs to step in !