If CCP really wanted to keep the PLEX price down, they would do something involving the idiots who get blown up while hauling PLEX from one station to another.

Maybe have it that when a PLEX is destroyed in a ship explosion it causes a random rat somehwere in Eve to drop a PLEX. Which would do the following:
- Increase supply of PLEX, because we aren't losing any to stupidity. Ever PLEX purchased will survive until its redeemed or the account holding it gets banned.
- Cause more players to loot any rats they kill because there might be a PLEX in them. Slowing down how fast they kill them, thus slowing bounty payouts, thus slowing inflation and the rate PLEX price increase.




Personally I don't see the skyrocketing price of PLEX as a problem, as it hurts RMT because anyone selling ISK outside of the PLEX system finds that they get less $ per hour of farming. So I wouldn't implement that change to control the PLEX<>ISK price.

But I would be tempted to implement it to troll players. Which is why it's a good thing I'm not involved in game design.

Dear CCP
I want to ask you one question, how long do you plan to do notheing about plex system? It is very easy to make it, and you just dont see it. Price of plex rise and will rise infinity because of speculants and because of you CCP who never set a limit how far
speculation can go. It hurts eve player base so badly - eve is more like a graveyard now then a real mmo for this days.

Just :

1. block conversion plex->aurum (add some new oportunitis to buy aurum but not using plex)
2. set max time limit player can purshes using plex system to 3 months (now it is 12 if i am corrected)
3. add usage time for all plex, so they can be only used max 3 months after real purshing using real money - after that time limit
plex should be not usefull at all - it kilks speculants very quickly, and we will se many plex from many huge stacks
on market in small price.

after 6 months you will have 5 times more active players or even more, eve will be reborn.
what kill eve are rtm speculants you should destroy them faster then they destroy this game.

hope you can understand what i am saying, my english is bad :p.
best regards.
f. old eve online player.

ps. you should learn from cryptic studio and neverwinter - they do REAL money ;-).

f2p coming soon, you will no longer need PLEX to play forever. I think that is the way CCP wants to deal with it.

Cant quite tell, is this an EVE is dying thread or a PLEX thread.
You kind of mixed both of them together for a redundant thread smoothie.

I'll take one with a bit of watch-list puree and some status-of-ganking as a protein base.

--Gadget is Hungry

The price of a PLEX has been constant as long as I have been playing the game - $19.95 with discounts for volume and occasional sales. The value has also been constant - 30 days of game time.

The only thing that fluctuates is the exchange rate between PLEX and ISK and that is determined by players. If more players want to use ISK to purchase PLEX and pay for gametime - the price will go up. If new players want to sell PLEX for ISK to buy stuff in game, the price will go down. No magic involved and no intervention required.

Dear CCP
I want to ask you one question, how long do you plan to do notheing about plex system? It is very easy to make it, and you just dont see it. Price of plex rise and will rise infinity because of speculants and because of you CCP who never set a limit how far
speculation can go. It hurts eve player base so badly - eve is more like a graveyard now then a real mmo for this days.

Just :

1. block conversion plex->aurum (add some new oportunitis to buy aurum but not using plex)
2. set max time limit player can purshes using plex system to 3 months (now it is 12 if i am corrected)
3. add usage time for all plex, so they can be only used max 3 months after real purshing using real money - after that time limit
plex should be not usefull at all - it kilks speculants very quickly, and we will se many plex from many huge stacks
on market in small price.

after 6 months you will have 5 times more active players or even more, eve will be reborn.
what kill eve are rtm speculants you should destroy them faster then they destroy this game.

hope you can understand what i am saying, my english is bad :p.
best regards.
f. old eve online player.

ps. you should learn from cryptic studio and neverwinter - they do REAL money ;-).

I think that those who dont have to fly those blinged out battleships will downgrade.

Dear CCP
I want to ask you one question, how long do you plan to do notheing about plex system? It is very easy to make it, and you just dont see it. Price of plex rise and will rise infinity because of speculants and because of you CCP who never set a limit how far
speculation can go. It hurts eve player base so badly - eve is more like a graveyard now then a real mmo for this days.

Just :

1. block conversion plex->aurum (add some new oportunitis to buy aurum but not using plex)
2. set max time limit player can purshes using plex system to 3 months (now it is 12 if i am corrected)
3. add usage time for all plex, so they can be only used max 3 months after real purshing using real money - after that time limit
plex should be not usefull at all - it kilks speculants very quickly, and we will se many plex from many huge stacks
on market in small price.

after 6 months you will have 5 times more active players or even more, eve will be reborn.
what kill eve are rtm speculants you should destroy them faster then they destroy this game.

hope you can understand what i am saying, my english is bad :p.
best regards.
f. old eve online player.

ps. you should learn from cryptic studio and neverwinter - they do REAL money ;-).

Plex price is governed more by mmo industry trends, oil prices, and geopolitics than by speculators.
The changes you suggest would stop the speculators, but the price would still rise.
You'd still be mad, and you would look for another scapegoat.

CCP is starting FTP on Nov. 8-- the same day as the U.S. presidential election.* Whether out of pure evil or just for the lulz of watching the chaos on Nov. 9, who knows?



*Also Vlad the Impaler's birthday.

Nov 15.

Ascension release has been delayed a week.

You dont only loose access to blinged battleships, but all T2 and big ships. No intys, cov ops, HACs, exhumers, freighters, T3 destroyers, BCs, etc. You basically loose all the stuff you have trained skills for. You cant even get all the core skills as Alpha.

If CCP really wanted to keep the PLEX price down, they would do something involving the idiots who get blown up while hauling PLEX from one station to another.

Maybe have it that when a PLEX is destroyed in a ship explosion it causes a random rat somehwere in Eve to drop a PLEX. Which would do the following:
- Increase supply of PLEX, because we aren't losing any to stupidity. Ever PLEX purchased will survive until its redeemed or the account holding it gets banned.
- Cause more players to loot any rats they kill because there might be a PLEX in them. Slowing down how fast they kill them, thus slowing bounty payouts, thus slowing inflation and the rate PLEX price increase.




Personally I don't see the skyrocketing price of PLEX as a problem, as it hurts RMT because anyone selling ISK outside of the PLEX system finds that they get less $ per hour of farming. So I wouldn't implement that change to control the PLEX<>ISK price.

But I would be tempted to implement it to troll players. Which is why it's a good thing I'm not involved in game design.

I wouldnt' be surprised if plex prices were artificially raised to encourage people with RL money but who are time poor to purchase plex to sell for isk.

And of course it raises the bar for people who don't want to pay RL money to purchase plex with isk, at least some will end up purchasing subs with RL money because purchasing with isk is difficult.

CCP needs to act.

I don't see why CCP would interfere to drop the isk price of plex, after all if you are paying more to buy it, then the people who bought it of CCP are getting more in return for their cash.

It is a better deal for people with RL cash and subsequently they are more likely to purchase them at a higher rate, so CCP is likely to get more cash. CCP is a business and they dont pay their staff and rent using in-game currency.