| Author |
Thread Statistics | Show CCP posts - 0 post(s) |
bldyannoyed
Estrale Frontiers
Project Wildfire
25
   |
Posted - 2012.04.05 11:09:00 -
[1] - Quote
This is all well and good but there is one small-ish problem.
MINING IS A ******* AWFUL GAME MECHANIC.
Oh yeah, and due to the awesomeness of suicide gankers it's probably also the highest risk profession in high sec, by which I mean the only PvE activity in high sec that actually has any (hows that for ironic).
So basically with ALL cash bounties nerfed, inflation inevitably going insane and ALL secondary sources of minerals removed (basically a double nerf for anything that's not sleepers/incursions) the only way to get ahead is going to be null sec mining or playing markets.
Now don't get me wrong here. I'm all for mining/industry getting a boost and further I'm also firmly of the opinion that any impacts the market feels as a result of CCP actions against RMT'ers/botters is a good thing as it represents the market regaining equilibrium that has been artficially screwed up by cheating *** holes.
But I will never mine. And I'm not the only one. If there was any way to conduct an accurate survey on these forums I would be absolutely fascinated to see the numbers for people who would quit when/if faced with a game where industry was the ONLY viable form of PvE activity.
|
bldyannoyed
Estrale Frontiers
Project Wildfire
25
|
Posted - 2012.04.05 14:05:00 -
[2] - Quote
Solstice Project wrote:
There is no real need for low prices. Prices were much worse many years ago.
When prices go up more, people will start appreciating smaller/cheaper ships again.
Low prices hurt the game more than high do, because of decadence and the loss of emotional value.
TL;DR:
Higher prices means we will have more variety in space,
cowards and spoiled brats will remove themselves over time,
people will start appreciating again what they have worked for !
Perfect !
Thats utter crap btw.
For a start prices right now are just about as high as I can remember them being. I'll admit that my memory of market prices at the end end of 2004 is a little bit hazy as I didn't really have much of a clue what was going on but I do remember that my first Tempest (I was so proud) which I got some time during 2005 cost about the 125mill mark.
Atm the cheapest to be had in empire is 115mill and apparently the median selling price 124mill. Thats, ooooh I dunno, 7 years of almost constant deflation reversed in the space of a few months. And its still accelerating.
As far as appreciating smaller/cheaper ships again thats only going to happen if they're actually any good. Right now the majority don't fly cruisers and frigs because they're rubbish, not because they're so massively wealthy that they can afford to burn isk all the time. Ship diversity is going to rely exclusively on CCP getting the tiericide ship rebalancing right because otherwise pvp will simply be everyone flying around in the defacto OP cruiser or frig rather than the defato OP BC. Yeah, thats really good for diversity.
As far as low prices hurting more than high prices that basically comes down to your wallet. It's very easy to take the holistic view of it when you're sitting on billions of isk, its slightly different when you're still trying to make your way in the game and the economy has gone supernova around you.
"Too High" is just as bad if not worse than "Too Low". While too low does indeed take some of the meaning out of the game how much meaning is there when the huge variety of ships in Eve boils down to whatever cruiser is cheapest?
|
bldyannoyed
Estrale Frontiers
Project Wildfire
25
|
Posted - 2012.04.05 14:58:00 -
[3] - Quote
Darth Tickles wrote:Skex Relbore wrote:Honestly I think we're about to see a recession in EVE. Obviously you don't even understand what a "recession" is.
Recession: A period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced
Sounds spot on to me |
| |
|