But that’s my point. By saying “your costs are increasing by X due to a tax increase”, all people will do ins increase their prices by X…just like IRL.
This is really one of those decisions where somebody said, “Our feet are hurting from the rocks, what should we do?” And then someone replied, “Gloves protect our hands, let’s try that.”
CCP is complaining about the ISK in the game. Where does the vast majority of ISK come from? Bounty Payouts. What is CCP doing to counter that? Nothing. Where do most of the Bounty Payouts happen? Null. Where is CCP targeting? HiSec.
Raising taxes always affects the poor immenseley, the middle class a lott, and it’s barely a bother to the rich. The taxes imposed will affect station traders and industrialists the most, but not have an effect on the ISK faucet at all.
CCP essentially is hoping to put enough sponges in one river to stop it from raining. And they keep catering the game to the people who keep turning the valve of the faucet creating more flow.
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A flat tax increase in a game with hundreds of trillionaires and armies of peasants is a great idea. Because who didn’t need yet another feature that makes EVE’s richest traders significantly more dominant in their respective markets?
If devs are actually reading these complaints, please take a look at the total ISK across my IP, and recognize that even your richest players think this is a terrible, terrible idea.
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It seems CCP is trying to sift the sandbox more than shake it?
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I thought Bob lost his and Alice’s life savings speculating on cryptocurrency, and Alice tried to recoup her losses by murdering Bob for the insurance payout?
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In Bob’s defense, who could have thought a no-brainer investment opportunity like Fedocoins was going to turn out to be a scam?
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And as others have said in here, just get rid or severely nerf insurance. Boom, now it’s even lower or non-existent as a faucet. Those of us who mostly fly t2/t3/pirate ships won’t even care. Those who fly t1 ships will now have a reason to fly t2 or t3 instead, if the lack of good insurance has been holding them back.
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While I do find a lot of the specific reactions to this to be perhaps a bit on the hysterical side, I can’t disagree with this.
This does not seem to be in line with their stated goal of making things easier for new players and more difficult for veterans. It plainly solidifies the position of large/wealthy players and entities, which doesn’t seem like something the game needs.
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Taxation–without consent and representation–is theft.
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It would hurt ganking in highsec, as an aside. None of these are simple answers, and you do need to be careful with attempting to drop global mechanics without paying attention to the wider game. Ganking is a player tax btw, and has always been, not this daft NPC-lore-gibberish. They get loot and a KM, and they get to yell and escalate, as people playing this game.
But outside of that nerf Insurance into the ground - although, maybe make it easier for people in low and null to SRP. These are the changes that would be QoL, but they won’t generate outrage if the goal is to goad for clicks.
Then CCP can nerf it, like they love to do to so many things, instead of eliminate in outright. If that’s not enough of a change, nerf it some more.
:::can point on the doll where CCP hurt me in the past:::
I’m only here for the salt and popcorn.
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You dont get insurance payout if you are killed by Concord anyway.
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I suppose it’s my low self esteem talking, but I’m sad that nobody ever comes for me…
Fair catch, rusty there
What is “Dunning-Kruger effect” for 500, Alex?
Maybe giving Alpha players partial access to the Accounting and Broker Relations skills so they can, at least, maintain their current disadvantage to Omega traders.
Why?
I had to add more words because that wasn’t enough, but ‘please elaborate’ might work {they blocked us writing why/wat responses, this is an outrage, etc]
Also, given the bot hysteria, do alphas need these skills to start
(they are not migrants trying to make a better life, fleeing war and poverty, they’re probs just nerds)
*some of them may be nice people, but we probs want the bad ones
Sorry my English Why any of you don’t see what Broker fee take twice? Example: in market stay order for buy 100 item That’s is order and from him broker take fee I want sell my 100 item and after TRANSACTION I see what from me take broker fee But this operation not work with order-this is simple transaction and Broker take fee (who bigger than SCC fee) twice What You think about?
Damn-WE ALL pay CCP every mounth billions ISK This is for EVERY player EVE would When sell-u lose appr.3% every operation And after new taxes this be 2,5 times more
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Such high tax would make trading much less efficient. The market I think is the most valuable mechanism in EVE, now it’s gone.
Bye Bye Jita IV, and other hubs.
And I really want more explanation. What’s the reason behind this change? Will this help solve the sink problem or just doom economy which may make everyone leave?
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