HAHAHA
AHAHAHA
The market in EVE is going positively haywire, and although hiked prices are mostly going to screw me over since I haven't played in a while and therefore have an isk income of zero, I cannot help but giggle.
It's a combination of a lot of factors. The economy in EVE is almost entirely player-driven, but because of that, it's pretty susceptible to influence from botting and non-CCP-sanctioned isk buying. (You can buy an item that can be redeemed for playtime or sold on the in-game market from CCP.) A bunch of things have happened lately to mess with the economy (speculation over new modules and ship rebalancing, actual new modules altering the demand for the existing modules, someone hoarding a component needed for T3 weapon subsystems, the infamous Ice Interdiction, subscriber increase doing wacky things to the PLEX market, mineral prices skyrocketing for god knows what reason), and then the security team started nuking isk-selling accounts from low orbit and removing all the ill-gained gifts from the economy. Forever.
They're not tracking it too far, since it would suck to be the guy who sold something to a guy who sold something to a guy who sold something to a guy who sold something to someone who bought isk and have everyone in the chain get screwed, but nuking from orbit is occurring, and lo, the tears flow like rain.
I expect Jita to explode. I'm going to complain a lot about this when I lose a ship and have to go buy another one and T3 prices are still ridonk or what have you, but since I'm taking a little EVE vacation, I'm just sitting back with popcorn and cackling when I hear things like "Orcas are selling for 700m isk now!"
I'm not a fan of every change they're bringing in the next expansion (racial battlecruiser/destroyer skills, changing wardecs so it's now stupid expensive to dec a large corp and super cheap to dec a small corp), but I can't object to EVE burning.
The market in EVE is going positively haywire, and although hiked prices are mostly going to screw me over since I haven't played in a while and therefore have an isk income of zero, I cannot help but giggle.
It's a combination of a lot of factors. The economy in EVE is almost entirely player-driven, but because of that, it's pretty susceptible to influence from botting and non-CCP-sanctioned isk buying. (You can buy an item that can be redeemed for playtime or sold on the in-game market from CCP.) A bunch of things have happened lately to mess with the economy (speculation over new modules and ship rebalancing, actual new modules altering the demand for the existing modules, someone hoarding a component needed for T3 weapon subsystems, the infamous Ice Interdiction, subscriber increase doing wacky things to the PLEX market, mineral prices skyrocketing for god knows what reason), and then the security team started nuking isk-selling accounts from low orbit and removing all the ill-gained gifts from the economy. Forever.
They're not tracking it too far, since it would suck to be the guy who sold something to a guy who sold something to a guy who sold something to a guy who sold something to someone who bought isk and have everyone in the chain get screwed, but nuking from orbit is occurring, and lo, the tears flow like rain.
I expect Jita to explode. I'm going to complain a lot about this when I lose a ship and have to go buy another one and T3 prices are still ridonk or what have you, but since I'm taking a little EVE vacation, I'm just sitting back with popcorn and cackling when I hear things like "Orcas are selling for 700m isk now!"
I'm not a fan of every change they're bringing in the next expansion (racial battlecruiser/destroyer skills, changing wardecs so it's now stupid expensive to dec a large corp and super cheap to dec a small corp), but I can't object to EVE burning.