That proved wasted effort. And for your own defense, just say you couldn’t stand reading all these posts to find out who went wrong where and to what degree, and therefore didn’t get the flow of the exchange. No one would blame you for that, lol. And no, I did not call him a simple mind, lol.
But since you yourself opted to make a new thread about an idea you already pitched in the older thread Alpha restrictions. It's time to let go, CCP - #70 by Ermon_Kaiser you’ll have to take ownership, not sides. It’s never easy to see an idea get under fire, but that’s the consequence of throwing it out in the open.
The option to grind for plex has existed as long as plex existed. The goal for ccp is to create revenue from sales, direct and deferred (PLEX comes under “deferred”). All plex comes from cash originally. From my understanding, PLEX only enters the books as income when the PLEX is spent in the game, not while it’s in someone’s plex vault. That as an aside.
Here’s a bit of a reality check on PLEX (credits to the excellent adam4eve.eu website !) showing ingame PLEX price evolution over the last 6 years, with a ISK price increase of over 100% in that period :
Less dramatic is the evolution of supply and demand in the in game economy for plex. However, the supply is usually lower than the demand, and supply becomes the major driver for the ISK value of plex.
If you make PLEX more attractive e.g., for reasons of a new type of “beta sub”, and therefore increase the demand for PLEX, there will be a straightforward evolution of the ISK value of plex - and the law of supply and demand predicts that the price will grow. So your argument of “easier to grind for 250 plex” is likely to never be fulfilled.
What used to cost around 250 to 300M in 2011 (to plex an account) now comes at 2.5B. Not bad for a single product, a ten fold increase in value… (and of course less net result per hour of grinding for the newer players for the same plex into omega requirement).
and thus increase the price of skill injectors because that is good for your trade ? Nice little personal business proposition. There are better ways of removing the “constant source of skill points”, ones that would not benefit certain players who directly interfere with the level of grinding for plex and isk and profit from it.