Tessikhet
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Posted - 2007.11.10 07:33:00 -
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 Originally by: CCP Chronotis
Originally by: Amarria Black
Busy day, Zulu? 
A couple of questions:
As decryptors are being removed from static plexes and demand is set to increase from a new wave of T2 ships, are the number of hacking sites slated to be increased in order to keep pace? Are the individual hacking sites having their decryptor availability increased?
Has the econ genius taken a hard look at the impact of the decryptor changes and what they will do to the overall market? Has he also looked at the impact of increased demand for Mechanical Engineering datacores, and how that will affect both the overall datacore market and invention in general?
Considering the upcoming changes, do you consider ship invention to be balanced for T2 ships which have BPOs?
read this , and the blog as well.
We would not increase supply to 'keep pace' with demand unless it was in severe shortage as decryptors are still regarded as luxury items and are also tiered by rarity.
As for mechanical engineering datacores, we are still looking at options which may range from changing modules based on mech. engineering to electrical engineering to start of with and leaving ships to be the main item for mech. engineering to changing their balance in a much wider method.
Also, supply and demand being the forces they are, appear to be working quite well and the prices are falling across the board currently whilst global player supplies are increasing rapidly.
I hope that you will give the market a big long chance to work out these issues before stepping in with artificial market regulation. The EVE market is a game for players to play, not CCP devs. Let us capitalize on opportunities instead of stepping in to squash them.
Otherwise you set a precedent that makes it very hard to justify the risk of pursuing in-game business opportunities in the future. I personally won't invest SP and ISK in any EVE business venture once I've observed that CPP doesn't mind intervening on the consumer's behalf to artificially lower the value of goods.
For example, right now I'm grinding away standing with two NPC corps while training a multitude of science skills. I'm setting myself up to sell mech eng and nanite eng datacores, which takes a significant investment of time. A side-effect of this effort be to reduce the cost of those datacores slightly due to increased supplier competition. But if a month or so after I get settled into that business, CCP steps in and artificially fudges with the market by, for example, reducing the value of mech eng datacores by reducing the number of modules they are used to create, then suddenly I'll find out that due to a risk I could not evaluate, I've wasted my time.
It would be like if the government of a certain country suddenly started a practice introducing price-controls to prevent private industry from making a significant profit in certain industries. Suddenly, the landscape for doing business in such a country starts looking extremely risky, because you never know when the government might step in and crush your profits.
Just stand back, take your hands off the steering wheel, and let the invisible hand do its job.
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