I support this, though it should still be seeded too as market is dead.

Market will be dead until the seeding stops.

Nobody stops you from buying it with NIC. But you will buy it from players not from NPC's.

You could use that argument to eliminate all industry from the game.

obviously there is a lack in knowlede how currencies work.

in theory you want to have a stable currency. in our case NIC.

if you want that the currency is ment to be stable then you need a fixed amount of it. in real life this was done in he past that the countries had the money equilant in gold (this is long over and we dont have stable currencies in RL in ages).

here in game this would mean the devs would have to give out a fix amount of nic. the ppl then can do with it what they want. the total amount of nic would never change. only the person who owns it.
but then you cant have any NIC generating mechanics either. no plasma, no mission rewards in NIC ...

if you have only nic generation and no nic destruction then the total amount of NIC will increase and increase and increase. this will result in a very heavy inflation. the nic will loose its worth very fast. and all prices will skyrock. new players will have no change to get anything because everything is too expensive.

to prevent this from happening games that use currency generation (basicly all mmos) also have to balance this with currency removal. in our case tele beacons, terraforming changes... ...

and pls dont misunderstand goods for currency. goods (resources/bots/equip ...) get build and they get destroyed. they are not the currency. but NIC never get destroyed. they only move to another player. not if you dont have anything that you can buy from the npc. then the nics get removed from the game again.

tldr / have no brain:
if you have currency generation you need currency removal options as well. if you dont do that then you get very strong inflation and that is very bad!

Loads of NIC has been flushed out with terraform charges, Mobile teleports Probes etc.