BUMS!

CCP’s decision to allow developers to play EVE seems to have generated yet another unexpected change in New Eden. “I was sitting there looking at my corpse in space after an embarrassing PvE loss thanks to falling asleep at my keyboard, and I had an epiphany,” the developer reported, “why am I wasting my time with something only a bot could enjoy? What if I didn’t shoot triangles? What if I give up on training my cat to rat? What if nobody botted?”

And, with that, New Eden is on course to enter a new era. As of the next major update, no new ISK^* will be created in New Eden. The economy is now closed. CONCORD will no longer generate ISK to pay bounties. Non-Capsuleer corporations will no longer generate ISK to purchase commodities on the open market, nor for mission rewards.

Instead, every Omega-licensed capsuleer will now receive a monthly Basic Universal Minimum Stipend (BUMS) distributed evenly among all capsuleers, coming from 40% of all taxes and fees collected across New Eden. 20% of taxes and fees will be allocated to CONCORD to pay bounties in High Security space, 10% will be distributed evenly among corporations holding structures, and 30% will be distributed evenly to registered Non-Capsuleer corporations without regard for their standings or the perceived legitimacy of their organizations.

“I hate the idea that my taxes will go to Blood Raider corporate coffers,” said Amarrian sympathizer Dosanglos Bedrinkin, “but this is better than allowing bot-aspirants to drive rampant inflation. Something has to change. This will also ensure better distribution of mission running activities, as more popular Non-Capsuleer corporations will likely run out of income before the month is over.”

Recognizing the tendency to hoard ISK in a closed economy, all registered financial institutions will now collect a monthly tax, seizing 5% of the balance held by each player to augment the BUMS pool. Those players and corporations with an ISK balance in the 90% percentile of all balances will see an additional 10% of their ISK transferred to the pool.

Finally, to prevent hoarding unassailable wealth in non-capsuleer stations, and to encourage assets to be stored in Upwell structures, each Omega-licensed capsuleer will be limited to a maximum of 100B estimated ISK value stored in stations. Alpha-licensed capsuleers are limited to 2B estimated ISK value in stations. To facilitate this transition, and in an effort to “Clean Up New Eden,” all assets in stations will be transferred to the redemption queue, and organized into stacks consisting of the smaller of 1 item or 1B ISK estimated value. With the increased quantity of assets stored in Upwell structures, asset safety has been permanently disabled.

Launch date for the transition to the Basic Universal Minimum Stipend is highly dependent upon the amount of time it takes to move all assets into the redemption queue. Initial estimates place this process at approximately 38 years, during which all servers will be offline.

* CCP retains the right to generate ISK to facilitate in-game purchase of PLEX by authorized non-capsuleer corporations.
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