Kazang
Gallente
Arbitrary Freedom
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Posted - 2009.01.06 00:13:00 -
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Yes eve contains alot of pve grind for the weaker and less skilled players, if you dont lose alot of ships in pvp its quite cheap to maintain your fleet. Everything in eve revolves around pvp, the market trading, mining and transport are all forms of pvp, controlled by or in control of the ebb and flow of battle. The competition to earn isk is just as tough as winning a fight. Its extremely easy for the skilled trader to make vast amounts of isk without even playing the game except to set buy and sell orders, if a player has that ability.
For the most part i do agree with you. It takes alot of work and time to get enough money to pvp for most players (most players are terrible at pvp and lose alot) let alone grind the isk to pay for a GTC. Cheaper and ships and less grind would be double bonus for me, i would have more to spend on ships and (hopefully) more targets to shoot at because people would be more inclined to take make risks and venture into the shady world of pvp. But i dont think the effort to reward ratio is that far out in terms of the prices of modules and ships. 4 or so hours earning L4 grinding will pay for a fitted tier 1 battleship, domi for instance.
The price of items is all related to mining and the manufacturing of components, if ccp increased the ore/hour yield of miners the prices of modules would drop, GTC prices would also drop as a result. Its a complex thing and its very difficult to keep the economy balanced so its not quite as straight forward as upping mining yield, but thats the general idea
The prices of ships and components in eve is as low as its ever been. Losing a t2 fit battleship 2 or 3 years ago was a huge deal, now its merely a small set back. So if anything its getting easier to earn money every day, for instance level4s are getting more profitable and easier as time goes on. T2 is getting ever cheaper as more players get into invention. So hopefully we are on the right track.
How this continues to progress and what T3 is going to do to the economy will be interesting to see. Less grind would make everything so much more fun 
Kazang
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