Even worse idea - after 6 months PLEX can not be sold or converted to aurum. It can only be used to get more game time for account, holding it.

Heh, this would be hilarious.

Couple of speculators rage quited would be nice, yes. Rmt cutted off due to time limit is also nice, yes. You stop being so *** would be also nice.

PLEX speculations together with AUR (ship skins, anyone? ) pressure made PLEX prices through the roof. So
1. CCP getting less real money (2xPLEXes for the 1,2 B ship last year vs 1xPLEX for the very same ship now)
2. PLEX dependant people mass leaving game, so less content for those, who stay.

This:

is a solution. Just put 3 months instead of 6.

So you "ability to play" depends on rare situations, when you "get a windfall of cash"? And you suggest here to "figure out how to make more ISK"? No comment.

The game shouldn't be based on some player having some speculated RL issue where they can't log in for 6 months. Does it happen? Possible. Would it be unfortunate? Yes. Is it something the game should be coded around? Foook No.

And to be honest. If you were that guy, I would hope that you could petition your case and get it resolved to your satisfaction.

This whole "What about the guy that gets trapped in a cave/swamp/hospital for XX time?" argument needs to just go away. Not because I'm a hardasssociopath, but because for the good of the many the game shouldn't be coded around niche arguments.

For you personally - just accept that because (what ever you do for six + months) is a thing, then stockpiling plex isn't a valid game option for you. Invest in something else. Sorry dude but the vast majority of the worlds population doesn't disappear for 6+ months.

I have a better question, why do people think the plex market is getting manipulated? Think about it, something like 1,000 plex changes hands in Jita every day. That's more than one trillion isk. I suppose if the largest groups banded together they could stir the pot for a few days, but eventually the sheer torrent of supply and demand would equalize it and make it unprofitable. Plex is created by players, and only consumed by players. You can't cut off the supply, or refuse to use it. It's mostly a free market. The price is set mostly by supply and demand, and if you want to change the price, you have to change one of those. Changing the supply would involve lowering the cost to get plex, killing CCP's revenue. Changing the demand would be lowering the amount of plex consumed, also hurting CCP's income, or simply when plex gets to a point high enough where supply and demand stabilize.
The people that stockpile large stores of plex are, as I understand it, speculating that the price will go up, i.e. that demand is more than supply. Except for the recent dip, this idea has been mostly true. When the demand starts to lessen from the increased cost, the price will stop going up.

You shouldn't just change a free market because you believe that a price is too high. That's the price set by the free market, where supply=demand. If you purposefully change it, then its no longer a free market.

No I can't. The buying and selling of eve characters is a RL intrusion into the new eden alternate reality. It's a RL tranasaction using game currency. Character ownership is a RL thing, not a game thing. If my character could use it's vast quantities of isk to purchase control of your character in game and all you could do is pay the subscription and watch what my character does with your character, then it would be game play.

https://xkcd.com/849/