Fenderson
OLE Mining Corp
Miners With Attitude
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Posted - 2007.03.20 14:13:00 -
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Regarding Policing: if you want this to work, you have to overhaul the criminal system in lowsec so that people can be police without themselves becoming criminals. You would also have to provide some way for them to be rewarded for their policing. If you expect the mission runners to pay the police, then you need to make missions profitable enough to pay both the mission runners and the police, and have everyone feel like they are being suitably rewarded for their efforts.
Regarding isk: if you want to remove isk faucets from the game, you should start with the ones that create the most stratification in the economy.
As i see it, there are 3 major isk faucets in the game. there are others, but i would bet that these 3 make up the vast majority of the isk being created. They are:
 missions
ratting
static plexes
Of these 3, ratting and missions are fairly accessible to the general public. This means that while the isk they create does contribute to inflation, the inflation is fairly well spread out through the playerbase and therefore as prices rise so will general player income. This type of inflation is not very harmful to the economy since the overall purchasing power of the individual remains about the same.
Static plexes, however, are only accessible by a much smaller part of the playerbase. this means that the isk they generate will be in the hands of much fewer players. This also creates inflation, but since the wealth is so stratified, the purchasing power of the majority of players (those without access to complexes) is diminished more and more as inflation proceeds.
my conclusion is that you need to be careful about how you address inflation. if you remove mission isk without removing static complex isk, you may decrease inflation somewhat, but the overall effect on the game economy will be very harmful. If you remove the static plexes and/or integrate them into exploration, you will decrease inflation in a much more constructive way. Then the option would still be open to remove or reduce mission isk if necessary, and it would not have as much of a crashing effect on the economy.
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