Bugsy VanHalen
Society of lost Souls
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Posted - 2014.09.10 01:49:00 -
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No offense, but it is an isk sink. Sinks are needed to curb inflation in any online game with a player controlled market.
if enough new sinks are added, then maybe some old sinks, like clone costs can be removed.
honestly, it is the stupidly high costs of losing a clone that keeps most high skillpoint characters out of small ship PVP. It does not help you much if the ship you are flying only costs 1M isk, if your clone costs you 200M without implants.
You can install a jump clone very cheap, but when the clone that keeps you from losing skill points when you get podded costs more than a well fit battleship, it is a big deterant to participate in small ship PVP.
Now that is an isk sink that needs fixed, or removed.
fees and taxes on industry is one of the least game breaking sinks we have.
the tax on industrial jobs, even in a POS, is a great isk sink, and effects everyone equally, with an extra 10% in high sec stations, so nobody gets an unfair advantage.
if you want things like PLEX to come down in cost, than we need more isk sinks, that will drain the wallets of the billionares of EVE. because it is them that keep buying PLEX no matter how high the price goes. PLEX is traded in EVE like GOLD is in the real world.
Isk sinks are one of the most important factors in keeping EVE accessable to newer players. Contray to popular belief, assets being destroyed does not actually remove any isk from the game ecomonmy, it only trasfers it from the player that lost assets, to the player they bought the replacements from. the isk still stays in the game. A true isk sink,is something that removes the isk completely from the game economy. Such as buying seeded items from NPC's such as skillbooks, and loyalty point store items, as well as paying fees and taxes to NPC corps.
the only real isk faucets in the game currently, that is, isk that comes from NPC's to players, is bounties. However, that is a huge faucet, as most players living in null sec get their isk from ratting, which is an isk fire hydrant, that someone left open. |