Mr Horizontal
Gallente
KIA Corp
KIA Alliance
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Posted - 2008.10.27 16:22:00 -
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 Originally by: Manfred Rickenbocker
So, effectively, you are pinning the price ratio of the four parings such that they wont vary? Doesn't this defeat the purpose of what Dr. EyjoG was pointing out? The fact that you are locking the price ratios together removes some of the innovation involved in trying to regulate the economy. For example, if the price of Cadmium falls or Dysprosium increases, its likely any excess Cadmium will be converted into Dysprosium (functionally) keeping its price level. "Why should we sell it at a loss when we can make a profit elsewhere?" However, if Cadmium increases, not only will the reactions stop but the price of Dysprosium will increase. "No more competition from Cadmium, lets hike our prices more!" Now we've created a new price equilibrium with still nothing left to bring down cost. Sounds like a form of inflation to me. Since Dysprosium is the lynch pin in this scenario, while it has the potential to fix the issue with its rising cost, it also gives it the ability to bring up the price on another moon material: Cadmium.
Extreme scenario: Dysprosium is no longer produced/sold. Bottleneck now becomes Cadmium. All Cadmium moons become occupied. Maximum potential supply reached. Back to where we started.
Tl;dr: If the intent is to remove the bottleneck, all you are doing is shifting the bottleneck somewhere else.
An alternative suggestion would be to introduce a new material type that can be converted into all moon minerals. This provides a fixed ratio independent of current moon materials but still gives suppliers the advantage if the conversion/production/replacement costs are high enough.
You speak a lot of truth. All this does is shift the bottleneck to another aspect. Short term fix, Long term this solves absolutely nothing.
While this will have the desired effect that Dysp and Prom will be effectively price-capped to 10x Platinum/ Chromium values, those very minerals are also used as the expensive part for Carbide reactions. Net effect: Ferrogel and expensive composites are price capped, and the Carbides will skyrocket. The middle composites will just have a shuffle but largely largely stay the same.
Hafnium, Vanadium, Chromium and Cadmium moons will suddenly become massively sought after and 0.0 space that was previously not particularly at risk will suddenly be at risk.
0.0 in general on a larger scale gets yet another nerf to it's ISK making ability. The alliance maps will change in consequence to protect valuable cartels. The Dysp/Prom income is a lifeline to 0.0 alliances, the complexes being replaced by exploration hasn't really changed anything, but in 0.0 where things have to be farmed to survive, all you did there is just cause even more boredom and pain for those who have to do it it. Finally since Morphite dropped through the floor (and has somewhat regained in value thankfully), the effect the Drone Regions had on Megacyte hardly any of the high-value ores or 0.0 'wealth' is particularly worthwhile. So the only thing for alliances to do is build supercaps, which adds to the 'Capital Online' problem EVE has. CCP, you need to really have a good long think about whether it is beginning to be particularly worthwhile to go to 0.0 at all...
My suggestion: you can fix a heck of a lot of problems by making EVE bigger. EVE is suffering from a lot of problems of overcrowding now. In line with overcrowding, boost the amount of space and consequent resources (both Empire and 0.0 in proportion) and make EVE bigger. Bigger sandbox = happier players. Small sandbox = grumpy players. |