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Matthew
Caldari
BloodStar Technologies
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Posted - 2008.04.15 17:26:00 -
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 Originally by: CCP Wrangler
- NPC corporations will no longer be selling shuttles.
Nice 
Understand why it's being done, and agree with it. Though the complete lack of announcement is going to make this a much bigger market shock than it really needed to be.
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Matthew
Caldari
BloodStar Technologies
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Posted - 2008.04.15 18:22:00 -
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Originally by: CCP Gangleri
Announcing the change beforehand would have resulted in massbuying of NPC shuttles thus nullifying the effect for some time, changing the mineral composition would have made those that already have a lot of shuttles rich through direct action of CCP.
There was no other way to remove the cap on Trit prices.
Good point. Will be interesting to see how quickly players move in to fill the supply gap, how many people start using substitute goods (condors etc). Hope to see figures in the next econ blog
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Matthew
Caldari
BloodStar Technologies
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Posted - 2008.04.16 18:11:00 -
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Originally by: Kerfira
This means there'll now be less trit 'produced' (even though nobody intentionally did so), but I don't think it'll be really noticeable (think the amount is not significant).
I did the maths for this in another thread, based on Q42007 QEN data. Came out at about 2 billion units of trit per month assuming every shuttle bought ends up being refined, with the same again in increased demand assuming players step in to supply all previous shuttle demand. While that sounds a lot, it's actually only 0.5% of monthly traded volume, so I wouldn't expect to see drastic effects.
Originally by: Kerfira
Another issue is that this removes an ISK sink from the game. While probably not a significant one either, it'd be interesting to hear from Dr. whatever-his-name-is (the economy guy) what the exact numbers were for this and trit (at least in percentages).
Again, taking from the Q42007 QEN, my estimate was approx 800k shuttles per month (which is likely to be on the high side). At 9000 isk per shuttle that works out at sinking 7.2 billion isk per month.
Taking figures from the Q32007 QEN (the most recent I could find), suggests that isk sinks were consuming an average of 365 billion isk per day. Assuming a 30 day month, that means isk is sunk at a rate of 10,950 billion isk per month. Making the shuttle isk sink just 0.066% of all isk being sunk. So I can't see it's removal having a significant effect. |
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