Aurelius Valentius
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2014.12.02 18:41:31 -
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You are all so silly... EVE MD people, you so silly.
For the logical minded:
PLEX = 30days regardless, and also 1 month of training etc... these are fixed and do not change, eg. they are a hedge like gold per ounce or a barrel or oil, or bacon, but more like gold because they do not degrade with time and all that unlike some commodities.
The amount of ISK you pay to buy or the amount you get when you sell are only real if you do one of them = realized gain or loss, should you sell, if you hold them that is not realized as they will always have a market price that is variable (but history shows they always go up over time with minor dips and levels from a new set price.
When PLEX is high hold them, and only use them as needed, when PLEX is low accumulate more if you can, this is the "way of the PLEX" - zen style.
Price doesn't matter unless you can't afford one and you need on to stay active. This is the point at which most people grumble... but if ISK is coming in, then getting one (or more) isn't really an issue.
What would be the case imho = people saw a natural sell point to liquidate some PLEX into ISK as well as an intervention in PLEX and then perhaps the isboxer thing may have had some impact but I don't think so, because PLEX selling doesn't help you with that announcement, if you have a bunch of accounts and you let them unsub, which is dumb, you could sell them for ISK, then also you could sell the assets for more ISK and simply keep you PLEX as you can use them with your main... I don't see any boxers I know quitting over it, and most of them didn't have a pile of PLEX as they had to box monthly to get enough ISK to get all the PLEX from the market to keep going... so they didn't hold a lot of them they used them as they got them.
The big PLEX holders are the people with 1 or 2 accounts that have 10x or 100x of PLEX in a can somewhere that they don't use more, and as they use them they add a few more always in accumulation mode... they are the ones that help keep the price up, but also they aren't setting the price, the demand is: what the market will allow and pay.
The number of PLEX being brought into existence is the biggest part of the price, if a lot of people put in RM to make new PLEX and then put them on the market the price seems to dip, but only because people who want to accumulate try very hard to push the price down and grab them up - such as the markets eating up any CCP intervention that is putting in PLEX, these are simply temp down-turns because the big ISK wants to pull them all up at the lowest price, and so they do, and then when that happens the price increases over time again as less of them are available.
All you can do in EVE is keep up some king ISK engine where you make enough to balance your PLEX needs with your amount of accounts to your wallet levels - real or in game.
Basically: Productive Activity = Wealth, anything else is just stuff (including PLEX) that someone may give you some of their productivity for, at whatever price is currently seen as a reasonable trade. |