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Tristan Valentina
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Posted - 2017.01.24 00:29:51 -
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I would actually be very surprised if there is a direct conversion rate. ISK and for a greater extent the whole capsuleer market are completely independent of planetary economies. There would be very little need to exchange ISK for Planetary currency and doing so could easily crash a planets economy. If an infomorph needed planetary currency for something it would probably be more efficient to buy currency by volume then by converting it directly from ISK. As a thought you could probably even buy it in m3 units.
Just my thinking on the whole currency issue. |
Tristan Valentina
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Posted - 2017.01.24 19:50:33 -
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Nana I think that is a very good point those midway jobs would definitely need to be payed. My thought on them is that those jobs would be payed on contract and those contracts would have pay outs in Planetary Currency or ISK and that would be decided at the time of the agreement. I think those specific Midway jobs in New Eden would have a very interesting time valuing themselves. Obviously the concept of Net Worth would still apply but i would not be surprised if that was shown in multiple numbers instead of in single numbers as it is on earth. If you look at USD, and try and compare it to ISK I think you will see that the individual value of a single ISK is much more fluid then USD. I think USD is an excellent way to look at planetary currency but we even have to go a step beyond it before we see ISK.
This is amazingly fun to think about by the way thanks for putting it together. |
Tristan Valentina
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Posted - 2017.02.08 19:46:22 -
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Owen Levanth wrote:
I'd wager normal people on planets probably don't buy their groceries on the capsuleer-markets. The prices we pay are all horribly inflated. Considering how far removed we are from common baseline people, we're all paying premiums on everything.
Think about it, how many capsule pilots would try walking into some random normal people shop in a space station, risking his or her immortal life for a bottle of Quafe? Quafe isn't that refreshing.
So I'd guess we're paying at least a hundred times more then normal people for stuff like water or Quafe. Then take into account the costs of shipping that stuff up into space in the first place. In the end, people in space probably pay at least ten times as much to account for the trouble of shipping around stuff produced on planets. Or at least in a far away orbital Quafe-factory. Even normal space cargo shipping costs something, and corporations are greedy.
Let's take a bottle of Quafe (1l) for example. We pay 2,24 ISK with the current market prices. A normal, but space travelling human would pay 0,0224 ISK for the same bottle. A baseline human living on a planet would pay even less: 0,00224 ISK per bottle. Converted into local prices, that makes sense when taken together with the lore description of capsuleers being filthy, filthy rich.
On the capsuleer market simple commodities like your example of Quafe are inflated, but the prices we pay for things like Battle Cruisers are deflated. |
Tristan Valentina
Moira.
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Posted - 2017.02.08 20:57:59 -
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I find myself sticking to the place where there is no way of directly trading the currency of the capsuleer market with that of planetary government. I would assume that governments provide capsuleers with a way to buy planetary currency, but I doubt that it is a direct conversion in the same sense that we experience in the real world. More of a cost per m3 and less of a monetary rate. With out protections like this it would be to easy for a capsuleer to crush a planetary economy. While I understand that we RPers would like to think that infomorphs can be payed in planetary currency, but in every case when infomorphs are introduced into the game they do business in there own isolated markets. I have always taken this as a control put in place by CONCORD, that they use to make sure that we influence each other not prey on the masses.
Obviously ISK is a currency used by people who interact with the established interstellar markets, but I am also making the assumption that these Captains of Industry when they are not capsuleers have also reached a state similar to the immortality that capsuleers experience. Possibly without the controls of CONCORD and that is just an amazingly dark void to go into. |
Tristan Valentina
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Posted - 2017.02.10 04:52:58 -
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Owen Levanth wrote:Well yeah, because capsule pilots are building battlecruisers and other stuff like mad, while no-one bothers with brewing their own Quafe. 
That and I mean i can only drink one Quafe a day or I will get fat. I can lose 5 Battle Cruisers in 10 minutes! It really is a consumption issue!
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