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Draw Down of Production
I am closing down most of the first part of my production experiment. I have managed to go in and prove that money can be made with some basic blueprints in EVE Online. I ended up producing the...
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The Joy of PLEX
The team at CCP dove fully into the in-game currency selling market with EVE Online a while back with their 30 day CONCORD Pilot License Extension program, or PLEX. For $35 you can buy two PLEX which...
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The Age of the Discriminating Vendor
Another one of those posts that starts with “back in the day…” and which recounts how things used to be during the stone age of online gaming. Writing about it is not necessarily advocating for its...
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Charting the Relative Natures of MMO Economies
I think that by this point in time, some fifteen years down the road from the launch of Ultima Online, having a player economy is one of the hallmarks of games I consider to be MMOs, at least when I...
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Of Sinks and Faucets and What People Do in New Eden
One of the sessions I attended at EVE Vegas was presented by CCP Quant and reported on the economics of New Eden and announced the return of regular economic reports. It was a very interesting session...
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Null Sec – We Rat and We Mine Things
Null bears are everywhere! CCP released their monthly economic report for March 2017 on Friday with some new charts added and at least one old standard omitted. There had been some discussion in the...
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Delve – We Rat and We Mine Things
Just about two weeks ago we got the somewhat delayed March economic report for EVE Online where it was pointed out in a chart just how much of the biggest ISK faucet in the game, NPC bounties, flows...
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Delve – We Build and We Sell a Few Things
We are a week into June, so the time was right for the May 2017 economic report for EVE Online to show up. As expected, dipping into the data shows Delve still at the top when it comes to ratting and...
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Delve – We Mine Things and We Rat a Little Less
The monthly economic report for June 2017 is out already and the first thing I went to see was whether or not the reduced carrier nerfs that came in with the June update had any effect on bounty...
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Delve – Still Ratting, Still Mining, Still Manufacturing
The New Eden monthly economic report for July 2017 is out, a little later than usual, but better late than never. Getting straight to the ISK sinks and faucets chart, it does look like the changes in...
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Delve – Deploying Means Less Ratting and Mining
The New Eden Monthly Economic Report for August 2017 is out, and while there are some surprises, the economic performance of Delve isn’t one of them. The Imperium spent most of the middle of the month...
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Yelling and Selling in Waterdeep
I remember way back in the early days of what is now TorilMUD… or perhaps I should say, what persists today against the odds as TorilMUD… back when it was called Sojourn, back past the 20 year mark and...
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Delve – Mining Dominance
The EVE Online monthly economic report for October is out, confirming at least that CCP Quant remains on staff at CCP. And out in Delve it seems that the Rorquals are running all hours of the day to...
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The MER and Too Much ISK
The EVE Online monthly economic report is out for activity in February and I am not all that excited about it. It has been two years since I started posting regularly about the EVE Online monthly...
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MER Checking in on Mining before the Nerf
As I wrote last month, I am going to try to look at more specific aspects of the monthly economic report going forward. We got the March report last week, just a couple days after the April update...
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Tax Increase in New Eden
CCP will, at times, let the lore drive changes in the game, or at least pretend to do so. The local chat blackout in null sec and its indefinite duration was pitched as a Secure Commerce Commission...
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Grousing about the EVE Online 2020 Ecosystem Outlook
Blimey, this redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought! –Dennis Moore I mentioned in a cynical aside yesterday that CCP had posted a Dev Blog about the state of the economy/ecosystem after...
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Quote of the Day – The Passenger and the Sailor
A player-driven economy isn’t about the money. It’s about having every way to play the game serve a role in the ecosystem. It’s about all the wonderful and weird ways we choose to live and play, and...
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The State of New Eden at the End of 2021
It’s the economy, stupid! – James Carville, 1992 US Presidential Campaign I have said over the years more times than I can probably remember that the miracle that is the game EVE Online… miracle...
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Kazanir and the Progression Curve in EVE Online
With The Mittani gone we have been having some different people speak at the weekly coalition fireside meetings, which take place on Sunday at the meeting point between EUTZ and USTZ peak times. So we...
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