tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post9036680444860838142..comments2024-02-27T14:44:07.868+01:00Comments on Greedy goblin: Greed is good 2: the FW schemeGevlonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07072766785893313616noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-29286208043170598912012-10-29T16:15:50.558+01:002012-10-29T16:15:50.558+01:00The "greed is good" thing is fine inside...The "greed is good" thing is fine inside of the game, but you're borrowing from Randian rhetoric. In the real world, Randian rhetoric is dangerous, because it claims that the social benefits of a large and liquid market are inevitable and natural. <br /><br />In actuality, markets are set up and policed by societies (nations), and without things like police enforcing property rights and secure transactions, fraud and violence routinely leads to tyranny, which is not pleasant for most of the denizens.<br /><br />Think about the difference between trying to make a deal with the CCP-enforced contract system, or the CCP-enforced market system, vs. trying to make a deal while hanging in nullsec via cargo containers. If TEST wanted to, perhaps they could make a real "player run market", in some deep TEST sov system, where people could come and do CCP-tax-free deals policed by TEST enforcers. It would be a lot of work, and it would take "don't be greedy" ethics on the part of the TEST police officers. But that's what we do in real life - there's no CCP available to embed contract law in the laws of physics.<br /><br />In real life, the moral thing is to be greedy within the market, but also be pro-social regarding things like changing the rules of the market for the common good - lobbying for less environmental protection, or other subsidies to your industry may be profitable, but it does not lead to the pro-social good outcomes gestured at by the "greed is good" slogan.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04906677773615232966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-80241691555041489302012-10-29T15:02:27.554+01:002012-10-29T15:02:27.554+01:00You must be one of those conspiracy theorists who ...You must be one of those conspiracy theorists who think the government is listening to every phone conversation. Isn't it just as possible and likely that CCP wanted to make sure their patch was stable before bringing it to the live system? You have no proof of their evil plans, its just one possibility.<br /><br />I don't know why people who love a game blame the developer for wanting real money to pay their hordes of IT professionals and coders. I anxiously await a true F2P and also free to download game that is any good at all! Hint; it won't happen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-44661043461666242112012-10-29T14:47:11.908+01:002012-10-29T14:47:11.908+01:00@Jeff: faction ships do not destroy or create ISK ...@Jeff: faction ships do not destroy or create ISK as you have to provide a normal ship + LPGevlonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072766785893313616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-27607174980425192122012-10-29T14:26:00.814+01:002012-10-29T14:26:00.814+01:00I think it's time to increase the skills syste...I think it's time to increase the skills system from 5 ranks to 10 ranks. That will create a need for new forms of implants. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-26371312501634513822012-10-29T13:14:26.409+01:002012-10-29T13:14:26.409+01:00If implants were the only item cashed out on then ...If implants were the only item cashed out on then your argument would be correct. Check out the number of stabber fleets being sold. Let alone all the other items (datacores, modules etc.)Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01501346271031844079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-32337681436528859812012-10-29T10:42:11.211+01:002012-10-29T10:42:11.211+01:00the FW participants converted time into LP. they t...the FW participants converted time into LP. they then converted ISK and LP into implants.<br /><br />investors had huge piles of ISK. they bought implants at current low prices. they assume prices will rise in the future.<br /><br />CCP provided an ISK sink and then made it ludicrously profitable. it may have indeed been intended to also move ISK to FW (and then to DUST).<br /><br />all CCP need to do now is make a new source of implants that can be either cheaper or better than the current implants. this makes the investors stockpiles worth less.<br /><br />my bet is that DUST will produce implants somehow.<br /><br />Antinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-35578900497469777182012-10-29T09:31:10.924+01:002012-10-29T09:31:10.924+01:00CCP have grievously miscalculated. Why would peopl...CCP have grievously miscalculated. Why would people want to play DUST when Planetside is coming out?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-27656044603661247442012-10-29T08:29:36.593+01:002012-10-29T08:29:36.593+01:00'despite the LP stores are officially ISK sink...'despite the LP stores are officially ISK sinks'<br /><br />However unless the demand for implants increases by a factor of four due to FW in the long term the effect of the old FW system will allow more isk to stay in the economy. FW was not the isk sink people claimed it was.Bobbinsnoreply@blogger.com