Originally by: ChainyMcSmoke

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I mean how many people do you think are just going to sit idly by and watch others make billions of isk off this and not say to themselves "Hey, I want in on this as well" and before you know it an otherwise well intentioned loophole from the devs becomes the ONLY way to actually play the game.

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Originally by: ChainyMcSmoke

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Another question is it seems that the original good intentions of the devs to bring the game to people whom might not otherwise be able to afford membership is going to in the end screw them over the most. I mean you will have the ability to play now but when everything costs 12,000% more because of inflation(and oh it will happen) why would you want to...nuff said.

wts 1 unit of bantam ....12billion isk or best offer

... the pure at heart and hard working players want to ban timecards to keep this game and everything about it sincere.

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Originally by: Dark Shikari

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Originally by: Kcel Chim

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Originally by: Dark Shikari

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But we do. Competition is how EVE works. When people come onto the market buying things with huge amounts of money that they just pulled out of their ass, it hurts everyone else.

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That you are bothered shows how hard you struggle to gather money. As for the "huge amounts of money", that money existed already and for you it makes no difference if the guy who buys the gc or the one who sells it reinvests it into the market. The isk process is closed which means that the gc seller is not printing new isk but only trading an item (which will not influence the game bar activating an account out of game) for ingame currency which already exists.

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What they do is gather ISK from everyone else, putting it all in one wallet.

I will link you to a post of mine a while back that explains a bit how this can cause problems.

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Originally by: Dark Shikari

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Edited by: Dark Shikari on 26/11/2005 14:43:10

Originally by: Rod Blaine

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Not realistic, as explained by CCP.

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I never saw this "explanation." I don't see why it isn't realistic. In a sting operation, you automatically get every single person who has ever transacted with the character.

If not a sting operation, just search for large numbers of round-sized donations.

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I was delimiting the maximum (70k suscribers+300mil) and the minimum (no additional ISK 'created' for this GTC-ing). We are obviously somewhere in between. This is basic math. The question is where. Thanks for "contributing" by stating that we will never have to calculate with 70k estimated accounts, rather with 69994 (adding mine too) estimated accounts. This has really brought us nearer to the truth

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For those that didn't get it: I'm trying to say that there most probably _will_ be some kind of inflation since most "players who can finally join the game because of ISK-payed-GTCs instead of real money" will _have_ to make 300m ISK somehow, and I have a feeling that a big amount of it will be made by agent missions/mining which "creates" ISK as it's not gained through trade with other players. On the other hand I'm a player who pays real money and for weeks I am nowhere near 50m ISK "coming out of the NPC part of the game", as I don't have to waste 300m. So, who is more prone to creating more "new" ISK? ISK-GTC-based player or suscription/paypal/whatever RL money player? Will they also destroy more ingame ISK? The rich guys who traded the GTC with them will(by blowing up ships where you lose more value than you get from insurance?), but they will already have accelerated the inflation process since their bids raised the puts but the destruction of the ship didn't lower it, therefore making more people jump on the bandwagon (also known as vicious circle) and trying to make more money for those expensive items

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