I read this headline on the launcher and thought “Oh, CCP is doing something about the disparity in PLEX prices when purchasing in difference ecconomic zones, nice” and “Friction Free Trade? I can have NPC couriers move stuff I buy between markets? Or is it changes that might shift concentration of markets? Might there be a mechanic similar to industry job fees so the markets spread out a bit from just all being in Jita ?”
No. Oh well.
Inventory taxes should not be controversial, POS’s limited the amount of M^3 that could be stored in ships and materials and citadels just ramped it up to infinity. The amount of stuff each individual or corporation has should, if not capped to a M^3 by a service module(s) on a structure in line with Corporate Hangars/Maintenance Arrays did, absolutely needs an alternative balance charged per M^3 used. That it is not facilitates hoarding, which leads to
as people realized when CCP changed the blueprint input for capitals and battleship hulls to require stuff other than t1 materials. All that did was pull the ladder up for the smaller guys trying to build, while shilling for the large blocks that already had a stack of 1000 dreadnaughts.
No, no you are not as from the get go you took one of the most effective options off the table.
Killed the skillbook resale market though, didn’t it ?
If you can stop them from selling under cost price? Capitals were trading for less than their construction costs and the market for faction battleship hull prints went from 600 million a print to less a quarter.
The industrialization of skillpoint farms cooked that market as a long term investment. Ship skins used to be worth holding onto long term and now most of the are soulbound. Hoarding a module or a ship hull is a huge risk due to ‘balance’ changes, meta 4 damage controls were 8 million a pop before tiericide, and luxury yacht price tanked after the removal of its nullification ( the combat ceptors went form 40 mill to 12mil within an hour of downtime ) bonus, those who hoarded them had to wait forever before it got a second high slot.
PLEX is the option most resistant to player and developer driven changes, at least for now. Give reasonable alternatives and diversification will follow.
Factoring in taxes its still going to be cheaper to buy/sell in the 0% tax trade citadels, so how does this not simply punish people who buy in the regions and NPC stations?
I fail to see how this list
Achieves this item
Without the first list including “Fewer Whales Hoarding PLEX” as an expected outcome as part of the solution?
