Zifrian
Deep Space Innovations
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Posted - 2011.11.23 00:31:00 -
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Here are some things I thought about on price increase. Trying to figure out what is causing it so I can plan. I play with plex I earn from industry and I could keep up with the increase, I'm just not sure I want to.
I thought about the RL economy, which hasn't really changed for a year+, so not sure if that's a reason. EU economy? Employment/unemployment is flat so not sure if that's a factor. But if not, then the plex bought with RLM would be pretty much constant?
Incursions seem to be more popular but I thought they were pretty popular a few months ago. Any idea on this? I did a bunch back in the day when it came out but haven't since. Are people doing more and more of these now? This patch came out in January and prices began going up in August. I'm not sure it took 8 months to find the new shiny isk maker. However, this is a new way the game injects isk into the game (Mission rewards and rat bounties the others). Maybe this lag had to catch up? If we assume a relatively constant supply of people buying plex with RL money and selling on market, more people with isk buys more plex in game?
What about Incarna and the Nex? I know it's not popular and I'm not personally interested, but are people buying plex to buy items? I do see quite a few monocles in poster avatars. I thought these things were so expensive people wouldn't buy? Assuming a relatively constant supply of people buying plex with RL money and selling on game market, this would cause lack of supply if more are buying for the Nex?
The plex offers CCP has done make a noticable dent in the trend, but it doesn't last long as most of that supply is purchased. I will probably jump on a few plex if they do one soon, but I don't see it affecting the overall price. Any thoughts of when this might plateau?
Finally, the QEN 2010 shows no real change in plex price as the supply of plex enters the market. So does this mean that isk is coming into the game faster now than supply can meet it? Not sure if plex prices came out in the monthly updates now or whatnot. Be interesting to see this data anyway.
Is this just incursions being the new shiny? Combination of that and Nex?
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