I really wish people would stop posting this uneducated **** based on rumours and exaggerations. 110 million is pretty much the hard cap for ISK/hour from Vanguard sites. That only ever happens with an excellent fleet composition, winning every competed site and no down-time due to logistics shortage etc.
When you calculate the actual ISK/hour for the individual player, including the time it takes to get X-ed up and down times / lost sites, ISK/hour value is much closer to 50-60mil. (This does not include LP, but a)most people never turn that into ISK anyway and b)it doesn't contribute to inflation.)

This is still a huge ISK faucet and yes, it quite possibly contributes to rising PLEX prices. I just wish people would stop pulling numbers out of their ass so the argument can be considered seriously.

Also: Random comments about unemployed people ruining the in-game economy make my day. Every time I read that trash, I can't help but wonder how those folks managed to get a job with their apparent lack of education, or whether this is a clever coping strategy involving public self-abasement.

To be honest im not even disappointed anymore, With the current trend of making highsec immune to pvp, plex could bust to 1b a piece and i'd simply find another game.
Eve isnt the same game i started playing

The monocle and the way your dude is posed makes you seem very sad. Would you like a hug?

Im sure that everyone has noticed the rising price of PLEX over the last few months and the speculation on why this is happening

Some people have said its because

1. More people want to pay for free
2. The new Microtransations market
3. Speculation that Plex prices are going to hit 550 million by Christmas so investers are buying them up hoping to cash in and also inadvertantly driving up prices

I know a few people who have quit as they have multiple toons and they cannot plex them all. If they continue to rise we may see a cyclical subscription rate in player base. Players fall away as the price of PLEX rises which the forces a drop in the price of PLEX as there are to many PLEXes on the market, which brings them back.

As far as i can see this will affect players with the lowest income streams such as non botting mineral/Ice miners and noobie mission runners.


This could lead to a rise in the price of ships for a while until the price of PLEX falls again due to market saturation and the process starts again.

Further more the falling player base could also be partially due to the rise in PLEX and not because the Techno Vikings have been naughty boys.


Your interesting thoughts please and a big hello to all the trolls.

Im sure that everyone has noticed the rising price of PLEX over the last few months and the speculation on why this is happening

Some people have said its because

1. More people want to pay for free
2. The new Microtransations market
3. Speculation that Plex prices are going to hit 550 million by Christmas so investers are buying them up hoping to cash in and also inadvertantly driving up prices

I know a few people who have quit as they have multiple toons and they cannot plex them all. If they continue to rise we may see a cyclical subscription rate in player base. Players fall away as the price of PLEX rises which the forces a drop in the price of PLEX as there are to many PLEXes on the market, which brings them back.

As far as i can see this will affect players with the lowest income streams such as non botting mineral/Ice miners and noobie mission runners.


This could lead to a rise in the price of ships for a while until the price of PLEX falls again due to market saturation and the process starts again.

Further more the falling player base could also be partially due to the rise in PLEX and not because the Techno Vikings have been naughty boys.


Your interesting thoughts please and a big hello to all the trolls.

The main reason is that more people are paying through plex. I know a lot of people who stopped paying with cash a few months ago do to the bad CCP decisions and were looking to quit but were burning through there isk reserves to see if anything changed. That is the main reason and has nothing to do with inflation.

Doing a quick google search about that-which-should-never-be-done: RMT ISK sells for about 60-75% of a PLEX. Having the price of PLEX go up is only a good thing, because RMT will be even less profitable. PLEX functions as a hard RMT price cap.

I haven't bought any PLEX yet, but if it goes up higher, I'd definitely consider it.

You forgot to include the unstoppable ISK faucets that are bot mining and Incursion farming, thus inflation.

And this is true.

Plex will be for 1 bil soon and then i will buy gtc. Rising of plex prices is the only way to Cut rmt. Sorry to Say but thats true. Bots wont be able to make sucha money on belts coz bounty is fixed ;) hue hue hue :)

I was about to open a new account this month, but the 450 pricetag was already brutal enough. 500 now, and im definatly not starting my new account. Infact, im letting one expire at the end of this month.

Eve isnt the same game i started playing

The monocle is just proof of what eve has become. A collector / grind / dressup game.
I had nothing better to do with my isk then put it in my eyesocket.

Nice deflection, sadly, I'm just ISKursioning for PLEX and I don't work more than 5 hours. So stop lying, or stop failing. I don't mind which.

When prices rise there's one or two reasons:
1. More demand
2. Less supply

ad 1) more demand may be caused by:
- people earning less RL money because of the economical crises and wanting to pay with ISk instead of RL cash;
- people getting more ISK in-game because they find ways to earn more ISK/hour;
- people spending less ISK than before so they have a surplus;

ad 2) less supply may be caused by:
- less people buying plex because they have less RL money;
- NEX items may cause plexes to be removed from the market;

and so on.

I was under the impression the "Exchange rate" was fixed or almost so; You bring up some good points, but ultimately, the price difference will be mostly irrelevant to those that were considering buying it in the first place.

Oh and to the people that keep putting down the unemployed, like me for 2+ years now. I hope you lose your job and have to start looking at things from this side of the fence. I will make sure to find you and kick you too.

OP, ignore the apologists. No rational person would be happy to see the price of anything rocket by 30%.

OP, ignore the apologists. No rational person would be happy to see the price of anything rocket by 30%.