The influx of bounties isn't really the problem. It's the ease that bounties are obtained with, i.e. L4 missions with AI resembling the intelligence of a herd of lemmings. Fix that, you take a step towards fixing inflation.

Remove bounties from mission rats, keep mission rewards at the same level. That way mission runners will still have isk for LP turn in & it will actually give them a reason to loot & salvage.

They already drop a bunch of modules & ammo to loot. As it stands, highsec mission runners don't loot & salvage because they make more isk/hour from the bounties. Remove the bounties from missions & it helps inflation & gives them a reason to loot & salvage again. It would help make both lowsec & nullsec more attractive places to grind isk.

Everyone wants to nerf the other guys activities while buffing their own.

Really need a link to that quote.

You have the choice to do them and make the same money as carebears. You CHOOSE not to do them just as they CHOOSE to do them.

It's all choice and is not like you are being excluded. SO the idea of cutting bounties on NPCs only affects some, but not those who do no pve.

Tell me again how that is a fair system?

SO those of us who run wormhole sites and kill sleepers for income are untouched by this "cut in bounties" while those who make their money running missions or ratting get their income cut? Not to mention those who strictly pvp are untouched as well. What risk vs reward are you talking about?

There is no fairness to that. Fairness suggests something affecting everyone in the game. Face it: you want more targets, this isn't about how much money carebears make. nullsec is a choice and there are rats a plenty worth a helluva lot more than your standard mission npc. Not to mention officer drops. Risk vs reward is already in place. You rat in nullsec you stand to get great rewards but risk gate camps and getting scanned down and popped.. You run hi sec missions you get good but not great income, and basically no officer/pirate drops unless you buy them for outlandish amounts or luck into a good exploration site that has a small chance to drop faction loot.

Most of these modules and such that cost in the 100s of millions to billions come from nullsec. Still not seeing how npc bounties are the problem.

I understand it well actually as I have been trading on it for 6 years. I started out in industry and moved onto nullsec, and finally into w-space.

What i don't understand is the animosity toward those players who do not want to venture into nullsec and would rather mission in high sec.

Really? Because mineral prices have just about doubled in the last year, along with the price of tech 1 ships and equipment.

If you fly mostly T2/T3 and faction (even meta 4), then yeah, not much inflation. Prices based on mineral costs... way up.

Again, this demonstrates that the inflation is being pushed by the removal of mineral generating drone drop and rat dropping meta 0.

This shows that this is not systemic spiral inflation with no end in sight, but rather temporary inflation as mining profitability adjusts from its deflated state (caused by alternate means of mineral injection) to match that of mission running.

Given the nature of the question of this thread, why don't you take a tally of responses and see where it's at, maybe post an update in the OP?

There is an arguement hat some inflation is beneficial: it forces peopleto notsiton their money & go play the game
YOU CAN'TJUST RETIRE WHENTHERE ISHI INFLATIONS becauseyour money is slowing disappearing
Thus deflation in this game would be a REL BAD thing... Although DrE seemsto not thinkso