GreenSeed
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.10.10 22:57:00 -
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you have to understand that CCP instead of letting pvers/pvpers have to look at the market and see what they want and then find out how to get it, they decided to provide to 90% of the playerbase means to have unlimited income without much risk. the idea was that if ppl can, via grinding, make their way to buy anything on the market, then the ppl who sell stuff would have no problem on selling their goods.
you dont need to be a genious to see the flaw on this... no risk means no ships get blown up, thus any new player after 8 months of grinding highsec can buy anything. and often already have everything...
so you can see how the income of your random highsec/sovnull pver is fixed, but your income is linked to how much is sold on the market / destroyed in game. and being as it is that pvers not only make money from bounties/LP, they can also salvage and reprocess.... so you even have to compete with their supply.
so you end up with this paradox, where the only "profession" that has any risk, even on highsec!, has the lowest income potencial. 
there are many ways suggested to solve this. most usually ask for a buff to mining, wether with hulkier hulks or something armored to mine rarer minerals or a HUGE increase in the mineral cost of ships.
to me atleast, this solutions are just band aids, the real problem is highsec/nullsov missioning/incursioning having no risk. ships need to blow up so we can mine new ones.
on a space sim rpg like eve nothing should make more money than mining/manufacturing/trading. alliance warfare/random pvp roams/high risk pve like C5 anom runners, wich are usually "end game" activities should depend on manufacturers/traders to restock, and these two should depend on miners/salvagers.
i mean... its like real life... the economy starts with extraction, then production. and only then ppl buy it and figure out how to create revenue for themselves using the tools other ppl make.
as it is now you have huge alliances with little to no interest on any sort of economical play outside of "MAKE US MORE SUPERCAPS"... i mean look at the goons, they can afford to wage war on cooncord... and they shoot their own if they find them mining. xD |