Players’ Attempt to Destroy EVE Online Economy Gets Thumbs-Up From Developers - Polidicks

[QUOTE=haloguy234;35746477]This will only change the local markets around Jita. Unless Goonswarm takes this opportunity to establish a monopoly on hundreds of items, nothing is going to happen.[/QUOTE] They already have an almost 100% monopoly of one of the moon items, forgot which.

[QUOTE=Crimor;35751727]They already have an almost 100% monopoly of one of the moon items, forgot which.[/QUOTE] Technetium, and it's only gonna get more retarded cause of OTEC.

[QUOTE=Crimor;35751727]They already have an almost 100% monopoly of one of the moon items, forgot which.[/QUOTE] Oxygen Isotopes isn't it?

How is blowing up a single trade hub going to do anything?

I'm sure most trading has already migrated to Dodixie and Hek.

[QUOTE=The Aussie;35752167]Oxygen Isotopes isn't it?[/QUOTE] Nah that was the Gallente Ice Interdiction where they absolutely fucking pummelled any poor bastard mining Ice in Gallente Space, they drove the price up by 500% and choked off all supply so they had control, but right now they formed an organisation called OTEC to choke the supply of technetium and drive up prices of literally just about every T2 item in the game. Magnificent Bastards. [editline]29th April 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Mr. Smartass;35752392]How is blowing up a single trade hub going to do anything?[/QUOTE] The sheer amount of material, ships and items that pass through Jita each day is ridiculous, to call it "just a trade hub" is to understate the situation. It's literally the heart of the Eve economy. But it's a temporary blow, the intelligent traders and shit will just move to another system and start trading, hopefully Amarr.

The coolest thing about EVE is that it's basically a giant free market experiment. I'm glad that CCP is standing by their hands off policy. Stuff like this makes me want to play EVE, except I'm cheap and too busy with school to be competitive.

[QUOTE=Mr. Smartass;35752392]How is blowing up a single trade hub going to do anything?[/QUOTE] They aren't blowing it up, but rather waiting outside to kill people going in and out. The police NPC cant shoot at them until they shoot at someone else, so they are able to just sit outside preying.

[QUOTE=usaokay;35737115]they should also destroy tf2's economy[/QUOTE] "Whoever did not participate in the "Kill TF2 Economy" campaign gets 20 random vintage hats"

[QUOTE=Region;35753078]"Whoever did not participate in the "Kill TF2 Economy" campaign gets 20 random vintage hats"[/QUOTE] not sure what you're trying to say, but wouldn't that pretty much kill TF2's economy?

[QUOTE=iFail;35753095]not sure what you're trying to say, but wouldn't that pretty much kill TF2's economy?[/QUOTE] I guess it wasn't thought out well.. Well what i'm trying to say is somehow valve would stimulate it back. Some kind of hard to get achievement or some shit for people to get some random hats they could trade.

[QUOTE=Crimor;35751727]They already have an almost 100% monopoly of one of the moon items, forgot which.[/QUOTE] That still isn't going to cause much of a problem. It's not like Jita has the only source of Technetium on the market.

Burning Jita, Hulkageddon, and now OTEC? Ahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahaha I love EVE

[QUOTE=DarkMonkey;35754645]Burning Jita, Hulkageddon, and now OTEC? Ahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahaha I love EVE[/QUOTE] I'm gonna start buying all the materials you need to make covertors and hulks and just wait for the Goons to do all the work for me.

I wonder if the devs ever imagined their game to became something like it is today. I've tried so many times to get into EVE, its the learning curve that stops me. Love reading about the crazy stories you hear. My favourite still has to be the one where the assassins infiltrated that corporation over the course of a year just to kill the leader.

[QUOTE=D3vils Buddy;35754715]I wonder if the devs ever imagined their game to became something like it is today.[/QUOTE] One of their main inspirations for EVE was Ultima Online with was also a glorious asshole party, like EVE.

I remember playing EvE for a few months.. I was up to about 13-14 mil SP. It's a great game but some corporations taking it incredibly serious ( I guess that's part of being successful in EvE ). The corp I was in was in a war-dec with some troll corp and I decided to go out and fight a few of them off in my harbinger with t2 shit, I killed 3 and then got ganged and my corp kicked me out because me dying was "helping to fund the war" they seriously expected me to sit in our station till it was over.

The simple solution there is to not join a corp full of carebears.

[QUOTE=D3vils Buddy;35754715] Love reading about the crazy stories you hear. My favourite still has to be the one where the assassins infiltrated that corporation over the course of a year just to kill the leader.[/QUOTE] got a link to that one? :0

Never played EvE, but I think I remember in Age of Conan that the Goons spent the first months of the game bent over taking it by RUScorps hairy Russian bear dick and then disbanded (I think it was the SA guild at least). Always wanted to try, but then I read stuff like this: [quote]“Do you want to play a 15 minute match of Call of Duty that you won’t remember the next day, or do you want to spend four months manufacturing 14,000 Thrashers to do this? It’s just so big and awesome.”[/quote] Which might be awesome if you have the power to stop time when playing the game, but otherwise I really don't see myself having the time to do that kinda stuff. [editline]29th April 2012[/editline] Also anyone can enlighten me why the rest of the game population doesn't just buff up and fucks up Goonswarm for this? As far as I understand they are powerful, but not almighty.

Manufacturing stuff like that is literally just setting a manufacturing job in a station/PoS, not actually sitting there actively building the ship, you just set the job to run which takes 5 minutes and then you can go and do whatever you like. And the Goonswarm is part of a coalition known as the CFC, the Clusterfuck Coalition, and they are a massive, literally, massive power bloc, the only people who could stand up to them have no reason to unite against them since most of them are in the OTEC which is driving up Technetium prices and thus making them money. It's beautifully orchestrated so that everyone who wants to fight them lose out on a massive amount of money. Welcome to the sandbox.

[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;35756088]got a link to that one? :0[/QUOTE] [url]http://eve.klaki.net/heist/[/url]

[QUOTE=Pierrewithahat;35756195]Manufacturing stuff like that is literally just setting a manufacturing job in a station/PoS, not actually sitting there actively building the ship, you just set the job to run which takes 5 minutes and then you can go and do whatever you like. And the Goonswarm is part of a coalition known as the CFC, the Clusterfuck Coalition, and they are a massive, literally, massive power bloc, the only people who could stand up to them have no reason to unite against them since most of them are in the OTEC which is driving up Technetium prices and thus making them money. It's beautifully orchestrated so that everyone who wants to fight them lose out on a massive amount of money. Welcome to the sandbox.[/QUOTE] Sounds like it needs something to send the whole system spiralling into chaos, it'd be hilarious. As for the time, manufacturing might not take much but according to what I hear the only way to get anywhere is joining a big corp, most of which require quite a lot of effort and time if you want to rise up the ranks.

[QUOTE=Pierrewithahat;35756047]The simple solution there is to not join a corp full of carebears.[/QUOTE] Kinda hard when you're a miner, since that means that per-automatic you're one. Well unless you like to lose your ship(s)

I would like to play EvE, but monthly fee is huge turn-off for me. I like to pay for my game once and be able to play it forever.

[QUOTE=Spirit_Breaker;35756392]I would like to play EvE, but monthly fee is huge turn-off for me. I like to pay for my game once and be able to play it forever.[/QUOTE] Well enjoy paying a [I]one-time[/I] fee of 1000$ then.

[QUOTE=SCopE5000;35744983]If you want an invite I'm giving away 250Million ISK if you go ahead and buy the game whilst using my invite. It'll be a nice bonus for a new player, enough to buy and fully fit out a very decent battleship or anything below. I'll also personally advise you in-game, and tell you pretty much everything you need to know to get started and what to work towards to fly the ships you want to fly. PM me.[/QUOTE] Ugh I'd take this offer in a heartbeat, especially for the extra help from another player. But I can't really afford the monthly fees. I know you're supposed to be able to buy game time using ingame currency, but I've been told it's really expensive. How hard/long does it take to earn that much?

Goonswarm is a plague, together with Test Alliance (The Reddit Alliance in Eve) they have a massive influx of new recruits from 4chan, reddit and 9gag which blindly follow everything they tell them to do, and ruin everything they touch.

[QUOTE=Spirit_Breaker;35756392]I would like to play EvE, but monthly fee is huge turn-off for me. I like to pay for my game once and be able to play it forever.[/QUOTE] If you have zero sanity and enjoy wasting time and really push yourself, you can just pay for subscription time with in-game currency. Truth is everybody reaches a point in this game where they can support their account (or even accounts) with in-game currency in a few hours of playtime.

I have a 1024x768 res monitor. Playing EVE is a god damn bitch for me. It was also really had for me to get into. There was no "Go do this, go do this." I ended up teching up a little bit of mining/salvaging (I enjoyed it) then put a bunch of skill into hybrids and then missiles (Oh god rockets and missiles are lovely). I'd get into it and make a fresh character or something if someone could give me a sort of "go do this" type thing. I mean it's a huge chunk of money every month to play.