Greetings,
The Economic Report for the month of October 2020 is now available for your viewing pleasure. You can also download the raw data by following this link.
Greetings,
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Iâm also curious about Pochvenâs inclusion.
Will it be excluded from future economic reports? Has the MER tooling just not yet been updated to include it yet? Was it dropped for bad data reasons?
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How is no one at CCP seeing this as a bad thing? you guys do realize players making ISK to play the game, is PART of the game right? You know, that whole SELF SUFFICIENT thing you guys donât like. Its those ISK making activities that generate satisfaction in playing, generate friendships, generate conflicts, and most important it fuels PVP!
Now more then ever CCP is showing they DO NOT understand their own game. Ships are AMMO, reduce ISK and reduce everything, you know what you get? NOTHING! because people stop playing.
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The blue destruction line and the red production line must cross. Thus it has been written.
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you see it clear: blue is good, red is bad.
They wonât, and probably canât, really. You know what doesnât get counted in the âdestructionâ graph?
All the ammunition you fire. But it gets counted toward âproductionâ! So do fuel blocks that get consumed, drugs taken, etc etc.
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so all the lost drones, fighters, used jumpfuel and fuel for the stations are not counted either?
oh⌠i read this now. ty.
From prior explanations on how the numbers are generated, if someone kills the drone/fighter, itâs counted. If they just get left in space and auto-cleaned by DT⌠nope. Similarly, if fuel blocks are in a killmail, theyâre counted. If theyâre removed from the game because they got used, thatâs not destruction. So the vast majority of fuel blocks and boosters donât get counted, just like implants you pull out of your head to swap something else in donât get counted.
Whole lot of tiny things, but they add up.
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Still waiting for all that destruction thatâs driven by scarcityâŚ
So far, mineral prices are up (but ore prices mostly arenât) and ship price are up.
Itâs almost as if higher prices (and lower incomes) make people less willing to lose thingsâŚ
âŚwho would have thought?
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Study the graphs carefully. There is way more ISK flowing into the game than flowing out. Vet players could lose most of their ISK without noticing a difference in game play. An economy like that is unsustainable. Tranquility will be like the test server where Ä°SK means nothing unless severe measures are taken. You have to think of the big picture, beyond your daily experience.
RightâŚbut not all players are vet players and no game has a 100% retention rate.
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so basically. You guys killed Black Rise with the trig invasion. Lonetrek has more pvp than a faction warfare region that was sitting at top 5 before the invasions⌠And production has slowly diminished which means players are mosty likely unsubbing over the course since April⌠The only content in game seems highsec forge/domain and pvp in delve. Everyone else is just a lonely farmer. So when does CCP unplug the servers?
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Pointed it out for about a year ago ever since Hilmar did that dopey speech about âage of chaosâ and âyanking the carpet out from under playersâ as if that was a good thing.
Destruction isnât an end goal of game design. Itâs a consequence of properly designing other aspects of the game. When you make artificial destruction an end goal (as CCP has foolishly done for several quarters now), all you end up doing is convincing your players that thereâs no point in building resources.
The end result is shown clearly in this years MERs - production is down, mining is down, mineral prices skyrocket. Velocity of ISK is down (meaning less trading overall), and the only activitiy thatâs still âupâ is mindlessly farming ISK from Null and Incursions.
Other games are experiencing an increase in the play time and numbers of players logging in. Meanwhile, EVE continues to slip.
Is it doom? No, EVE will carry on for years yet. But this will be just another episode of braindead âideasâ from CCP that takes them years to recover from. Dig a spot beside WiS and Monocle-gate to (hopefully) bury this one in.
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Not until they run out of ideas for new skins.
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Well, clearly CCP learned the lesson of blackout, being smacked in the face with online graph.
I bet they came ready to fake the public login count data this time, in the best communist tradition.
Also, there is a war going on. Not for long though, until MESS and mining removal breaks it.
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Try to keep the tinfoil in your diet to a minimum.
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Period Basis being the least mined region in all of eve is no tinfoil, I afraid.
And if you think all the people who mined in other regions in September and didnât mine in October just stayed put, well, probably not.
Period Basis has been a warzone for almost six months now, with minimal ADM-raising. And what I think happened in October is halfway through the month, CCP
Which means the amount and value of the ore in those regions fell off a cliff. Do I think the miners stayed put? No. I know they moved to high and lowsec. I know quite a number of them, after all.
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