This event pushed up the prices of Hulks up from 60m-80m to 190m-220m

Certain cities and countries rely on tourists to bring money in from the outside so that they can circulate and stimulate more money within the economy. If the cities or countries just print money and flood it into the economy then that would cause an inflation. Mission runners and ratters add ISK to EvE.

Citation needed that eve's inconomy is in an inflation.

Inflation (CPI excluding PLEX) fluctuated quite widely during 2012, from a monthly low of 4% deflation to
a high of 8% inflation. However, taken as a whole, inflation was modest, and stayed within CCP's target
range of +/- 1%.

The flaw (one anyway) in your logic is here.

Anything adding isk to the economy is printing money and adding to inflation. Mission runners are not tourists buying trinkets and services with foreign money and then leaving, they are printing isk and conjuring materials from nothing.

Hulks as a T2 ship have been above 100m for a very long time

Now I know it might be the work of trolls or goons, however I have found a few threads here and there talking about the Economy in EvE about inflation and how it is the work of plex's and mission running that has increased all the prices in the market. I always believed that the players of EvE learned about economy as the game went on but every post I read made me more sad and angry. So if it was the work of a troll, my friend you have succeeded.

My first point I want to make and most important one IMO is the importance of mission runners and rat bounties. Missions and Ratting is the only way ISK is generated in EvE. Now some of you might go "rabble rabble you can do plex's, sell loot, market orders, hooblah and hoodnani" however, those methods do not "generate" ISK they merely transfer it from one account to another. Mission runners and ratters are the "tourist" of EvE. They bring in the extra ISK to add to the market for further trade. So a cry for "nerf missions because they inflated the market" is false.

This brings me to my second point. The true reason why the prices are so high are because of 4 things. 1) Hulkageddon. This even which is beautiful part of the game mechanics at work. So before the flames I'm not crying about Hulkageddon. They created an event that is completely legal within the game mechanics so awesome work guys. This event pushed up the prices of Hulks up from 60m-80m to 190m-220m which also created a fear of flying said ships in highsec for fear of losing a now 200m ship, and because of this event the flood of Tritanium into the market was lowered. 2) Drones didn't drop loot that could be reprocessed into ORE which again caused another shortage. Next 2 were done by CCP. Loot dropped in missions was reduced greatly, and also CCP made the manufacturing of T1 ships easier by removing some of the high end ORES needed and make it more expensive increasing the lower end ammounts. With all of this put together we get the high prices for everything in the market.

Thrid Point is that plex's do not hurt the economy. When plexs are exchanged for ISK they are exchanged from player to player. Again no ISK is generated only exchanged.

The one thing that controls the EvE market economy is the ORE Tritanium. Its importance is so high that it could be used as currency. The points I mentioned above are why the market prices are so high. Not because of mission runners or plexs or whatever. It started with Hulkageddon and ended with CCP.

I want to also make a strong point how hard this is on new players to the game. What you would spend on a normal T1 battleship fit is now about the same price for a T1 battlecruiser fit. Market prices hurts new players who can't gather enough of their own ISK.

Well I'm off to bed. I might make another post on the some idea changes for Missions, Mining, and manufacturing that might help creating more ISK sinks for the laster and more ISK for the Missions.

Inflation of around 3% is a good thing as it shows economic growth...most people in eve need to take a macro econ class.

Anyone has info on "Total ISK in game" by each year?

Mmmm and the invisible hand doesn't exist either...

The rate of 13,000% was thrown around once a couple of years ago. I'll try to dig up the refrence later when I have time and if someone reminds me.

God damn this inflation pandora box again...it should be bannable :)

I sometimes fail to see how the sinks we have are actually balancing the faucets, I think the faucets are "printing" way more ISK then the sinks drain...where is this ISK going?

So if "ISK in GAME" increases by 13000% per year? and no out-of-control-price-risings?