As mission-bears get older, they will have the skills to support flying fancier ships. They will accumulate the ISK required to fly fancier ships. The fancier ships will help them acquire ISK faster. Over time you would expect prices to rise simply due to the mission-bears getting better at making ISK over time.

As traders get older they accumulate more wealth, and better knowledge of the market, and thus better ability to generate riches. Over time you would expect prices to rise simply due to traders getting better at making ISK over time.

As mission-bears get older, their ships get more valuable. Thus the rewards for suicide ganging mission-bears become better over time: especially when the mission bears move to high gank/low tank ISK grinding machines. Over time you would expect prices to rise simply due to the easier access that suicide gankers have to rare modules.

Note that we can currently manufacture trauma heavy missiles for far less than the market value. The current inflationary bubble is due to speculation.

Totally independent of Incursions, there are many reasons why prices will be rising in the marketplace. There is the increasing ability for capsuleers to make ISK as they gain SP, the increasing ability for players to make ISK as they gain experience in the game, the inflationary pressure of speculators, and finally the pressure of extra ISK entering the economy via Incursions.

I am not disputing that Incursions have some impact on PLEX prices. After all, last year when the Incursion interdiction was running, the price of PLEX stalled. It is foolish to attribute the rise in prices of PLEX to Incursions alone.



Which option do you want? Lots of ISK available for a few dollars in order to be competitive with IGXE, or PLEXes available for only a few hundred million ISK in order to be attractive to people trying to pay for their game time with ISK?

Paying for your game time with ISK is a luxury for those who have ISK to spare. PLEX-for-ISK is an ISK pump intended to make CCP's legitimate RMT more attractive than IGE's illegitimate RMT, it's not a means to subsidise the gaming habits of poor people.



The loss of subscribers seems to be due to the foolishness that accompanied Incarna, rather than being anything to do with PLEX prices soaring over the 400M ISK mark.

We didn't think this through, did we, OP?

Ok - so you cap PLEX prices at, say, 350mil. Now, players USED to have to grind 8-10 hours in L4 missions for their PLEX. Now, they can grind 3.5 hours in incursions and get it.

With prices being capped - less and less people will be buying PLEX to support their account, as they're worth less and less due to inflation. Additionally, less pilots will be paying anything, as PLEX will be used for all accounts, since they're so cheap.

Also, how are you going to cap the price on a player-driven market? You **** with that part of the market, you **** with ALL of the market.

Sounds like you're pretty butthurt that you can't afford PLEX right now; either run some incursions, play the market, or just subscribe.

Good grief!

Can everyone who is claiming that there was "huge inflation" over the last year please open up your market client, select any product you care to mention, and then look at the price graph for the last 12 months. Not 1 month, not 1 week, but 12 months.

Now tell me, does that price rise in December/January look like a gradual increase over 12 months? "No Mara Rinn," you say, "it does not." So what does it look like? It looks very much like a bunch of people coming back to the game because Crucible actually looks nice. Not only do you have the usual expansion-time "oh, new expansion, wonder if it does anything for me" crowd who come back for a month or two, but this time we also have the folks who rage-quit over NeX/WiS coming back because they've seen what CCP is doing and saying and decided to forgive them for being stupid about space barbies.

The gradual inflation over time is easily explained by growing production capacity and general speculation.

Putting a cap on the price of certain goods is called "planned economy". Have a look at all the "planned economies" in the world that have lasted for any significant period of time: USSR is a prime example. They don't thrive, do they? Why? Because planned economies GÇö by trying to enforce stability GÇö encourage unstability in the market. At a fixed price, the market will be exhausted by people buying the thing just because they can afford to. Then the people who actually need it can't get it. In many cases the people who make that thing end up starving because they're not allowed to make enough of that thing (or enough different things) to earn enough income to feed themselves.

If you are having trouble making the ISK to meet your PLEX requirements, consider paying with real money or examine the Making ISK guide in the EVElopedia.