Please stop the nonsense about inflation

[Teckos_Pech]

@Nevyn_Auscent

This is only true if you have an increasing population and decreasing money supply though. Which the increasing population is almost always true in the real world.

In August more ISK was sunk out of the game than created. And a decreasing population also means a shrinking economy as well. GDP, crudely put is productivity*people.

@Nevyn_Auscent

You also don’t get isk leaving the economy in the same way in the real world, someone dying doesn’t just delete their cash. And those people leaving is the main cause of the drop in money supply.

It has certainly exacerbated the decline and some of it might be bots which is not bad at all. Still, this is something to be worried about…not inflation. In the CPI in game inflation has not been an issue for years…literally.

@Nevyn_Auscent

CPI was starting to move at a decent pace the couple of months before invasion and has a noticeable hill there.

Yes, it was, but still below it’s 2012 mark by the looks of it. It suggested a possible need to to limit the growth of the money supply, but not shrink it.

To be honest, I think what we are seeing with the ISK supply is causing CCP to reverse course on the blackout. They don’t want to tank the in game economy.