Horan Kim
I'm fine and You aren't
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2017.06.09 17:36:56 -
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I really do hope CCP devs are not this stupid. 
But for some reason, they are not focusing on the underlying issues that are destroying the game. 
The problem with all this ISK faucet got worse since the introduction of skill injector/extractor.
It is easy to shape up old, high SP, unfocused characters into many focused characters.
Easier to acquire focused ratting alt, especially carrier/super carrier alt.
Just grab some skill injectors and everybody flies carriers/supers now.
I have seen many newbies go from VNI to Rattlesnake and then Thanatos/Nid in the course of few month.
Before the skill injectors, you have to wait for your ratting character to skill up or buy a carrier character off the bazaar, which require a lot more upfront ISK then buying skill injectors as you go (or a lot more real money to buy and sell PLEX).
Next, the introduction of Citadels also hurt the game by worsening the NULL sec stagnation on top of boring and somewhat stupid sovereignty mechanism (a.k.a. Fozzie sov).
Forming up three times for undefended but TZ tanking, damage capped Citadel is bad. Defended? It becomes a nightmare.
And everybody drops Citadel as they drop their MTUs and mobile depots nowadays. With asset safety, what they got to lose? and what they are gonna do with all that isk that they are making anyway?
Why bother risk going into a war when you are going to face cancer level Citadel bashing among other cancer level fights and Sov grinding? There is 0 driving force to start the war yet so much to lose and suffer for starting one. So people just do roaming and camping and dropping stuff and etc., but no full-scale campaign. Meantime, people are ratting and mining more since there are nothing else to do.
Last, removing Aurum in-game and combine it to PLEX and also dividing PLEX into 500 helped the PLEX prices to go up like crazy. So people who want to play the game free have to grind for more isk. Hence, more isk being generated.
All those above reasons became a vicious cycle, making the current situation worse and worse.
More people, including newbies, use carrier/super to rat and nothing else to do, PLEX prices keep going up, rat more, etc.
CCP's solution? Nerf Rorqual!! Nerf Carrier/Supercarrier!!! They make too much iskies!!! 
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