I’m sorry… wth?
Luv how they casually slipped that in there with zero explanation or reasoning.
There was a lot that was casually slipped in this update.
a temp tax break… now its back up… at least its not 8
its not like you’re paying 7.5% on taxes anyway
Let’s be honest: if they had offered any ‘reasoning’, it would have been to tell us it “increases flexibility in trading choices”, “supports EVE economic goals”, and “provides for a more fair and balanced trading environment”.
It’s clear they want more ISK sinks to balance out the constant ISKflation they keep adding to the game, but they have zero clue how to add any proper ISK sinks to the game (ie. ones with any value to players). Also, they want to further cripple the ability of Alpha players to make ISK (since they can’t train most of the ‘tax reduction’ skills).
Oh well. Other parts of the patch are decent. We have to give it a bit of time to see if the overall result is positive or negative. Despite the tax rate, a fair bit of reaction seems to be positive so far.
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may this is just for screwing up traders
Tax hikes have historically been poorly received. Tax Hikes, Ore Removals, Rampant Ganker Squads etc etc. CCP is removing hi-sec without removing hi-sec if you know what I mean.
The end goal is to make hi-sec so unplayable that everyone moves to null.
I’m probably wrong but it looks that way. idk.
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They buffed NPCs in null-sec, dropped taxes and inflation ran amok for 6 months. Now they’ve buffed mining, rolled back NPCs in null-sec and hiked taxes in an attempt to reign it in. In both scenarios high-sec paid the price.
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I noticed it in my trade then looked or it in patch notes, but could’nt find it.
In the patch notes for 3/12, top of the Science & Industry section.
What was the reason 8 months ago to reduce it?
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Miners, haulers, industrialists and people that use drones are treated like second class citizens
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Stfu. You have no room to talk
How are miners, haulers, industrialists and drone combat ships relevant to this particular topic?
Not only do I not feel like ‘second class citizen’ when I mine, haul or use drones, I also don’t see how it’s relevant to a topic about sales tax Bakster.
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First of all the Tech II warp disrupter only requires Propulsion Jamming level 2. That tells you everything right there.
But in this case a tax is slapped on people who sell things. Why?
That first one tells me nothing. Care to explain what makes you think anything? On a second thought, please keep it to yourself.
Yes, the tax has been increased.
CCP is tweaking the ISK sources and ISK sinks to keep inflation in check.
They noticed the amount of ISK in the game had increased too much in the past few months and turned back the faucet of ISK from null sec NPC bounties so less ISK is entering the game, and turned up the tax to make more ISK leave the game.
These after all happen to be respectively the second greatest ISK source and the biggest ISK sink in the game if you’ve seen the economic reports.
For someone claiming to be ‘strong in economics’ in their bio you appear pretty clueless on game economics.
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Tech II Warp Disrupter requires propulsion jamming level 2
But Tech II Warp Core Stabilizer requires Warp Drive Operation Level 4 and its not even that good
This shows a bias toward people that want to kill and destroy others
But also the people who are taxed for inflation are people who do trade and industry, i believe its the biggest ISK sink in the game. But why should they be taxed for it? They are not the ones printing ISK
While true, this is a particularly CCP “spreadsheet balancing” way of addressing the issue.
CCP created an ISK faucet that dumped massive piles of ISK into the hands of Null ratters (many AFK). Now they’re taxing that ISK back from Jita (and other) traders who for the most part received none of the benefits but will pay all of the price.
Apparently this bothers nobody at CCP, because hey look, after many months of extortion the spreadsheet lines will balance! So it’s all good.
Taxing the market (which is the core of the game) to enrich null farmers is pretty dumb, but oh well. Business as usual.
CCP appears to be about as ‘strong in economics’ as Bakster is.
Inflation is not just a matter of how much ISK is printed vs destroyed. For example if industry and trade is harmed one way or the other, the prices will increase even if the money supply is stable. I wonder what CCP has done over the years to facilitate trade and industry in EVE?
They did two things this update to combat inflation.
Not only did they revert the tax buff, they also reverted an NPC bounty buff.
- Almost reverted the tax buff of 8% to 4.5% back to just below the original value (7.5%): Patch Notes - Version 22.01 | EVE Online
- Almost reverted the bounty buff of NPC bounties just above the original value
Considering that the NPC bounty buff has lasted a lot shorter than the tax buff I would say it’s unfair to point to null sec as cause of this issue.
I take it you’re not playing in null sec and are just looking for a scapegoat? As someone who doesn’t get any ISK trading nor ratting I don’t really have a horse in this race myself, all I see is two levers CCP is pulling on to bring inflation back in check.