Why is it still not possible to redeem Cerebral Accelerators or combat boosters in space?
Not addressingto to fix the context Menu is Hilmarous from CCP
Itās only the problem because they want to sell more PLEX.
Sadly, after these changes that are clearly reducing player possible incomeā¦ im not going to buy any PLEX, MANY others have declared the same.
Itās sad they have to push the game in a direction where subscription isnt enough. As a subscriberā¦ you cant make isk at the rate you used to, or at a rate to be able to lose ships WITHOUT having to be forced to buy PLEX.
Horrible decision to focus on game changes that are about putting less isk in the players pocket, and more $$ in CCPās.
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You do get that makes zero sense right?
Nope. Makes perfect sense considering the context that i replied to.
No, the whole tinfoil conspiracy that this is about CCP selling more plex.
You do get it is likely to drop plex sales right, not raise them.
ISK LOSS: They added more elements to the game to cause ship loss: edencom & triglavian standings/systems, PvP arenas, āyeet me to nullā filaments, etcā¦
ISK LOSS: They split new eden up in a manner that broke most peoples willā¦ no one wants to go 48 jumps to Jita to buy or sellā¦ Jitaās done to anyone that doesnt live near there.
ISK LOSS: They removed Ores from all sections of space, limited what can be produced and/or soldā¦
ISK LOSS: They removed Ore anomalies from high secā¦
ISK LOSS: Once peoples reserves run out, Ore/Mineral prices are going to continue going upā¦ availability will diminishā¦ prices will rise moreā¦ Larger Ship prices will double or more due to harder to get mats, limited supply, and or using non-jita trade hubs, because screw 48 jumpsā¦ thats 96 jumps round tripā¦
ISK LOSS: High sec moon changes. enough said. Dont even say ābut its high sec!ā wars kept this in checkā¦
Thereās moreā¦ i dont want to type all morningā¦
With all this lossā¦ a player will be faced withā¦ ādo i want to mine, rat, mission run, hack, etc to make up my losses so i can buy the ship i just lost? wait, damā¦ seems thats gonna take me ages nowā¦ thats not funā¦ or wait! i could buy PLEX!! or the NEW PLEX/SP packs CCP is pushing on us!!!ā
Itās not my fault your too dense to see that by reducing ISK per hour a player can make, they are being cornered into a āwaste time or buy plexā position.
Use your brain, the word āConspiracyā is wrongly thrown around like āNaziā. If youāre going to assume that a company is NOT after profits and the logical reasoning is a āconspiracyāā¦ I can only assume youāre a Nazi.
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not all you wrote is a ISK loss, but fore sure is is a income loss
and not always you have to use the term conspiracy. sometimes it is enough to call it strategy 
No difference between āIncome lossā and āISK lossāā¦ technically the same thing.
If no one has isk, no one will have isk to buy your plex you bought to sell for isk. Thatās the step you missed.
Plex does not magically turn into isk.
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I didnāt miss any step, and you attempting to make excuses doesnāt discount from whatās going on, that you cant comprehend.
PLEX will always be bought AND sold within the game as long as CCP allows it.
That excuse doesnāt apply.
Sure it can.
But if no one is earning isk no one will buy plex on the market. Because no one will be able to afford it.
Therefore for you to sell plex on the market others must still be making good isk. Which then asks the question of why if others can make good isk why canāt you, since if plex sells it must be possible still.
Price of PLEX (in isk) is maintained by players. It can cost 1 isk or 1 bilion. Economy will adjust to lower money supply. There always will be someone to buy PLEX since it always has value.
But if you only get 1 isk for your plex, you arenāt going to run out and part with $20 for it.
So it makes no sense to say that CCP lowering the isk supply is designed to sell more plex, since if it has any long term effect it should be to actually decrease Plex sales due to lower isk prices for plex.
Why not? value of isk is not fixed. You are completely ignoring basics of eve economy and just jumping to conspiracy theories because they fit your narrative.
Uh no, Iām applying basic consumer economics.
Assumption 1. Scarcity will cause prices to rise on material goods due to lack of supply.
Assumption 2. Scarcity of Isk will cause prices to drop on non material goods like plex (& therefore run onto sp injectors) due to lack of demand at a high price.
Assumption 2 will also partly counter assumption 1, but to what degree who knows.
Could these assumptions be wrong? Absolutely, but they follow basic economic ideas, they are not a conspiracy theory.
In short, if 50 Plex right now equals 1 T2 cruiser, in the future this may look more like 150 Plex = 1 T2 cruiser.
Working from these assumptions, it follows if you get less isk/value for your plex, you are less likely to bother buying plex to sell for isk.
Now you are welcome to disagree, but do so on real grounds.
Its in CCPs interest for PLEX to have a lower isk value because more people will buy em off the market.
When I started a PLEX (equiv to 500 PLEX today) was 300mā¦
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My problem with this is that you assume that plex or isk should have fixed value. Apart from that, CCP stated many times that their goal is to make isk more valuable and make loss meaningful. So yes, your example (even if not exactly correct) is a goal for CCP.
Do you even read? I clearly didnāt make that assumption. But whatever, you arenāt even talking about the same things I was.
Reduced ISK availability will not lead to a change in overall PLEX sales, only a change in PLEX price. Because there wouldnāt be a higher demand for PLEX just because there is less liquid ISK - there is zero relationship between PLEX demand and asset destruction since PLEX cannot be used to acquire ships/modules/etc.