Right before Kahah and all that happened, on Bjorn, and then again just after, when I was getting Anna trained up. Missioning in HS on new alphas is a relatively chill way to take a break from null nonsense, you know?
I guess this is the nut kick to the market players. Who is going to get the nut kick next? I hope itâs hi sec incursions, those guys have had it too good for far too long with huge rewards and zero risk.
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Then you should be quite aware that isk flow doesnât really tend to be an issue. Highsec living doesnât require inordinate spending, especially when youâre waiting for the SP to catch up to Ambitions.
Ever time I see a post from CCP I get more irritated with this game. Itâs supposed to be enjoyable. If I would not have so many years invested I would look for something else. Just leave the base mechanics of the game alone. Special events Great! New content Great! But this is just annoying.
If you want to stop all the Alpha bot crap Give them 1-2 months omega if there not playing paying for the game by then there not going to. Delete the account or make it where it can only be activated (logged in to) by Omega status.
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This change is a mistake. Like in real life nobody likes paying more taxes and fees. You have further enhanced a negative of the game. Essentially the players are making a donation to CCP when we pay taxes.
You have not explained why you are increasing taxes and market fees. The economically minded person may understand but we are not all like them.
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That really wasnât my experience. Even with the slower training time, I found myself having to mission like mad to make enough money to get that first Stabber in a reasonable amount of time.
How? A dessie will tear through the SSoE arc (that multiple agents throw you towards) even with basic skills and that alone will buy you the hull with ease, and youâre not skilled for that for a month or more yet, as far as Iâm concerned. I think youâre rushing upgrades, to be honest. What is a âreasonable amount of timeâ to you?
Great⌠More taxes 
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Nope, just following the tutorial and then into the career agents. The SSoE stuffâs always seemed pretty high-effort for my HS give-a-damn.
You forgot the note about how PLEX transactions will be exempt from taxes. Talk about throwing (real) money away.
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Itâs pretty much the norm and the agents send you to Sis Ali when you do the career stuff. The rewards in isk alone should net you enough for a cruiser hull, the standings bonus will get you better relations with the agents etc, and frankly if you have missioned until you have the standings needed for L3s you donât even need to have done the SSoE arc to have the dosh for it.
Iâve done this on too many characters intended to be infiltrators (and then I feel bad because literally all the potential targets have like⌠no security and theyâre all wide-eyed baby seals and arrgh sod it itâs a scout now and Iâll burn it anyway god damnit etc) and I just honestly canât wrap my head around how you canât afford a cruiser when you have the SP for doing more than spinning in it, when a single dessie in highsec can basically blitz anything that isnât beyond standings reach at that point anyway.
⌠Arrendis. Youâre awful at Eve. Sorry. Itâs the only explanation. Newblings today bathe in dosh compared to the Ye Olden Days of training learning skills and mining in Bursts and Bantams.
Increasing taxes will do absolutely nothing. Prices will go-up accordingly.
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It will remove ISK from the economy, and tbf it does need slowing down. But I doubt it will have the desired effect.
Also this forum is garbage, seriously.
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But just as IRL, wont prices just go up a tad to compensate? The equilibrium will be found and life goes onâŚ
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Is this increase in taxes to pay for the deficet cause by the of the ship insurance program due to the increase of loss of ships bought on by blackout?
âŚwhy would that happen?
Assume, for a moment, a 5% tax rate, and a PLEX price of 1million isk.
You think thatâs a pretty okay deal, so you buy 500 plex and sell them for 1 million ISK, yielding 475 million in after-tax ISK.
The tax goes up to 10%.
If you sell your plex for 1.056 million each now, you yield 475 million.
The only number that really matters is the after-tax yield PLEX suppliers are willing to accept. If the PLEX price (and subsequent yield) is low enough that theyâre unwilling to supply, the price will rise until theyâre willing to supply.
Of course if other supplies are willing to live with a reduced yield, well, thatâs just life.
In neither case are you throwing money away, however: You spent money on PLEX, the only TRUE value of which is that you can spend it for Omega/NEX store items. Thatâs the only guarantee CCP makes to you when they sell you a PLEX. Youâre allowed to trade it in game, but that does not come with any valuation guarantee.
Ensuring forum readers/posters get their recommended daily allowance of salt.
If CCP wants to increase market pressures, just reduce ore availabilityâŚitâs EVEâs equivalent of oil which has shaped the globe for over a hundred years.
Itâs not real life. These are players with lives and they get narked when the ISK faucets get knocked on and off in unpredictable ways.
Tbh the big ISK players will play this and benefit (unless we get another daft patch every day, which judging by the DTs looks likely). The big groups will also get along.
The solo folk, playing alone - quite literally - who have no social group and have probably already gone insane doing PVE, will go insane.
Thereâs a bit of an assumption that âwhalesâ are typically straight out there in nullsec or lowsec sat in purple fail-wagons, waiting to die. This really is not true - it wasnât 10 years ago and if anything itâs probably even worse now. Iâve API checked errr, say about 1k players as a recruiter (in other corps than this one is in). There are legit highsec whale hoarders, who will never PVP, but they ratpack. They are funding a hell of a lot. Never annoy them.
Seriously, Iâve API checked so many dropping 1k + a month it is insane.
Now you could also pull these people aside and try talk to them, but they were already mad. But the one thing that will genuinely incense them is TAXES.
Not that I am saying they are dumbos or anything, but they donât read forums except when they get ganked sooooo
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Bad idea. Besides transferring wealth to the highsec TTT mafia, this will also reduce liquidity in the market by increasing the buy/sell spread. That wouldnât necessarily be a bad thing if EVE were maintaining the same number of players, but as the player base is gradually declining, liquidity already decreases naturally as it become harder to find buyers on short notice.
Another thing this will do, which may be either good or bad, is to force vertical integration of industry. If one person mines the ore, another refines it, a third manufactures components, and a fourth makes ships, the transaction costs at each step will prevent them from competing with the person or corp who carries out the whole supply chain in-house. I have to say, this really shits on solo players.
If youâre concerned about oversupply of ISK, nerf insurance payouts or something like that. There are much easier fixes which donât throw a monkey wrench into the entire market.
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