DEV Zoom wrote:Jita: the irony is that it is you who said that it's not tokens that will inflate but NIC.
And that's exactly what has already happened - everything has got more expensive.
People have NIC at the moment and don't have tokens and so it's easier to do harvesting missions and solo missions. This reduces NIC payout without impacting the amount of tokens you get, but makes the mission very easy. You can do a harvesting mission in easily under five minutes for 310 tokens whereas a combat mission takes longer but will get you a lot more NIC. Now call me crazy but a well balanced mission system should have a reward that matches the time and difficulty it takes to do the mission. Currently it does not.
What this whole fiasco was about came back to the original 'economic crash' thread I made and is around there being no NIC sinks in the game worthy of the name. My point remains the same - the mission system is pumping far more NIC in to the system than is being removed.
There are two ways of dealing with it. The first is what you are going to do - reduce the payout. While this does make sense moving forward from today it doesn't address the amount of NIC already in the game. By reducing the payout you leave the imbalance caused in game as well as demotivated a player base already used to the value that missions produce. You are not taking this approach with tokens - that's what the forced devaluation is about.
The second approach I'm advocating is accepting that the money is already in the game and adapting the NIC sinks to deal with that. By increasing token amounts to 600 and reducing NIC payouts to 25m you are increasing NIC sinks to a good level which should drain money from the system. As there will be a glut of tokens in the game this will make them worth less which is a good thing - this encourages their trading giving the opportunity for more NIC sinks.
In regards to NIC sinks this is a good reason to remove the relations need when buying stuff from the token shop - this will create a bigger market to sell tokens as people can accumulate to buy the black bots and T4+ themselves rather than buying the finished goods.
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