Eve Online's New Chief Economist

eldavojohn writes "Recently CCP, the folks behind the online game Eve Online, hired a real world economist to advise them on their in-game economy. Says the new hire, Dr. Eyjolfur Gudmundsson, 'There's a lot of discussion in the game about inflation and that is my job, to find out if inflation is going on. This makes the consumers behave in a more natural way because they are competing against each other on multiple levels, not only on a tactical level in combat but for logistics and resources. That builds consumer behavior and patterns that you see in the real world.' Is this a serious step to keep Eve Online competitive in the virtual land of MMOs despite scandals, Ponzi schemes & scams?"

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T3 market

[partowel]

No offense, where did you get this T3 data?

I've never seen it. I know its theoretically possible. T3, T4, T5, etc, etc.

Can you provide a link.

As for eve's economy. One word. Monopoly. The corporations in power are using piracy and extorition to

stay in power. EVE is a world where crime pays. Eve is a world where charging 500% in royalties is legal.

Eve is an insane economic system.

Don't forget the "endless" npc pirates that guard 0.0 space. NPC pirates have one economy : infinite money, infinite resources.

In reality, they should be destroyed. There are enough people pirates around. No more npc pirates. They're a joke.

Economy. Yeah. Eve is only interested in making things as HARD as possible. 2 Billion isk for a capital ship.

Right. I'm sure everyone earned that isk in eve. They more likely bought it.

Eve allows selling GTC for isk. What a joke. Buy your way to the top with REAL money.

Eve's economy is fubared. Its going to get MORE fubared.

I personally think if you can add modules to ships, you should be able to add the cloak module to your pod.

Make pod killing a LOT harder.

Or at least be able to buy a cloakable pod.

My definition of research : reverse engineering.

Its done in the REAL world, but not in eve.

I guess eve scientists are retarded. IQ of Zero.

Make your own bpo.

This bpo lottery is a scam. A scam to control the economy.

An open economy lets anyone copy anything, just like the REAL world.

Do you honestly think that amd and intel don't study the microchips they put out?

Do you honestly think that the best cars in the world are not "reverse-engineered", then re-invented.

Reverse-engineering is something EVE will never do.

Someone should reverse-engineer EVE, then release an open source mmorpg. If thats even possible.

Make research really profitable. Not just copying bpo's.

Get a photocopier. Not that hard.

You don't need a lab to make copies.

That's just bullshit.

Re:Form their own guild

[rtb61]

Let's keep it simple, what with lawyers, politicians, corporations, marketing and now economists, eve online is about to become as boring as it is slow and clunky, just like the real world people are trying to escape from.

So the next big question is will eve online provide in game access to a different MMORPG that is actually an entertaining escape from reality ;).