“Correctly.”? Really? You realize of course that when you don’t back up that kind of claim at all, it can just be turned right back against you. “Making isk in-game is something you absolutely grow out of when you become an adult with real incomes and know how to allocate your time.” It’s nonsensical. There’s no ‘correct’ way to fund yourself in Eve. Again, I’ve made money in Eve pretty much every way you can do it, from the most passive Ye Olde research agents through industry/research flipped every few days to a week, to the most autistic market updates and super ratting. Not a single one of them is more or less correct than the other.
In the end, there’s very few things that separate the ways of making isk. Does it add isk to the economy, or just move it? Variants on trade/industry versus bounties, etc. And how much isk/hr/effort is involved. Those are quite literally the only real differentiators, other than how much is invested.
It’s quite arrogant to try and claim otherwise, dear.
You’ve increased the effect of trading skills to partially offset the increase in broker fees at NPC stations, but there’s been no commensurate increase in the effect of NPC faction and corp standings, which also affect fees. The net effect is that the relative importance of NPC standings for NPC station trading will be greatly reduced. Is this an intentional change, or just a side-effect of wanting to increase the ISK sink associated with market activity. If it’s an intentional change, what motivated it? If it’s unintentional, are you happy with further reducing the importance of corp/faction standings?
I like the lore and all but lets be honest Concord sucks at defending. Being a -9 character I can truly say they only come to kill the offender not to defend the victim.
a) You don’t have to delete a post, you can just edit it.
b) Good questions and good points all. I suspect we’ll need CCP to answer those, though. Personally, I’m in favor. Grinding the corp standings hasn’t really been much more than drudgery and a chore, now that standings are hidden. Still, this is a bit outside my wheelhouse in general. I trade and indy as much as the next person, but in order to maintain sanity I intentionally avoid delving too far into the details or I’ll end up in some asylum somewhere, having strong opinions on things.
The changes looks generally fine though, can you buff a bit more for broker’s relations skills please ?
It’s now totally worthless, or dead compared to accounting since broker’s fees refer to only the raw standings.
Expect to have it changed to 0.4 - 0.5 % per each level, or to make brokers fee refer to the modified standings.
And please make highest level drugs illegal in the high-sec again through the market renovations as well. Making them legal stuff in the high-sec ruined roll playing and made drugs worthless.
Look, you already know how difficult it is for a new player to get started from scratch in EVE? Well, there’s good news! We’ve decided to make it even harder for a new player to get started by siphoning off more of his cash! That’s right! The sales tax rate is more than doubling! And even with maxed out skills, the best tax rate you can get will be higher than the tax rate with no appropriate skills now! Isn’t that great news? Don’t worry, the people making ISK hand over fist already will barely notice the change but those poor slobs just starting out are really going to feel the pinch! We were trying to find a way to stem the tide of new players flooding into our game and this ought to do the trick!
