No no no, dumping baskets full of currency into the economy doesn't cause inflation, preventing people from autopiloting freighters full of loot to Jita causes inflation.

Blowing ships up directly removes isk from circulation. You're literally blowing it up.

Your entire point is void (Due To Suicide Ganking)

Blowing ships up directly removes isk from circulation. You're literally blowing it up.

Your entire point is void (Due To Suicide Ganking)

No blowing up a ship creates isk from the insurance payout. The industrialist who built the ship still has the isk that was paid for it. On the other hand the price of goods will increase as somebody needs to be paid for the increased gank risk in moving goods (assuming you popped a hauler).

On the effect of incursions on the economy, you realize that isk will come in somehow. If 20% of the PvE time in the game is being spent in incursions, then the fact that 20% of the PvE income comes from incursions is not a big deal (BTW your numbers are wrong, I believe that bounties number is only the bounties from missions not from ratting/plexing).

From what CCP is saying they want to tweak incursions a bit, but the PvE time invested to total payout is not badly out of whack (at least when LFG and transist times are taken into account).

Incursions are a bright shiny object that people have latched onto. CCP has flat out said that incursionsare not a major factor in the inflation problem..

Blowing up ships removes 0 ISK from the economy the ISK was already paid for & leaks back to the industialist that made it! The ISK is still circulating. The insurance paid actually adds ISK into the ecomony

Small things do not drive overall inflation. Incursions are a bright sparkly object that every idiot in the galaxy is pointing to as the cause of inflation. This even though CCPs released numbers show incursions as a minor issue, and CCP has called incursions a minor issue, people continuing to harp on it. This is distracting from more important discussions. Put bluntly, incursion runners are a bunch of noobs using faction gear to make up for low SPs. Simply put, people feel like they're making good isk per hour running incursions because they have no idea how much their shiny ships could generated in level 4s, and are loosing track of how much time they are spending because they're enjoying being in fleets.

The structural reasons for eve inflation seem to be:

1. Removal of the POS fuel isk sink.
2. Lack of new players to expand the economic base.
3. Increasing number of SPs allowing people to kill large rats faster.
4. Decreasing ability to arbitage items between regions due to suicide ganking.
5. Massive cost increases in the raw resource basket due to a. suicide ganking of miners, b. banning of mining bots and c. increased costs in moving reprocessed minerals from mission hubs (due to suicide ganking).
6. We are transitioning from T2 being at the top of the commonly used mod pile to faction being at the top of the pile.

Of these factors I think the most important ones are 1. The removal of the POS fuel isk sink and 2. the increasing difficulty with arbitage. Quadruple the EHP of barges and freighters and you'll drop the inflation rate.

So why is insurance fraud no longer happening? If ganking CREATED isk, people would be ganking themselves to create it. (Like they did before the insurance fraud fix)

Blowing up ships removes 0 ISK from the economy the ISK was already paid for & leaks back to the industialist that made it! The ISK is still circulating. The insurance paid actually adds ISK into the ecomony

Y U PEOPLE IGNORE TECH MOONS

This assumes 100% of his cargo survives. It doesn't.

Becuase they are over owhelmingly NULL SECers using Incursions as a scape goat

This assumes 100% of his cargo survives. It doesn't.

Say i'm in a freighter with 5bil isk in cargo.

You kill me. ...

If you cant understand this, you be trollin.

YOU PAID 5 BIL FOR THOSE MODULES - AND NOW IT WAS DESTROYED! POOF!

1. Removal of the POS fuel isk sink.
While POCOs do void the isk sink since the tax goes to the corp, all of those IB and Concord COs are sinking isk. I've no idea how much tax hi-sec production is soaking us for, but my single planet robotics operation (i.e. no tax on p0-p2) in low-sec were charging ~7,000 isk on export. That's on par with NPC sourced robotics.

c. increased costs in moving reprocessed minerals from mission hubs (due to suicide ganking).
See 4 above. 5.75Misk to move a billion isk from Dodixie to Jita is not a significant cost.

6. We are transitioning from T2 being at the top of the commonly used mod pile to faction being at the top of the pile.
If true, the prefered modules are more effective than the T2 modules they replace. That's a productivity increase via upgrades, not inflation, and the effect is negative price pressure on the modules they replace.

YOU PAID 5 BIL FOR THOSE MODULES - AND NOW IT WAS DESTROYED! POOF!