Feb 25th 2012, 5:13:07
To be fair, there is always a balance. On non-alliance servers, jumping entirely off the public is viable regardless of government type (typically because there is less total NW gained in the last days). Going demo and losing 14% of your stock isn't too bad of a deal, you'd still get 0% market commissions and if you resell for even 2% it's worthwhile (though, most will lose way more, like 18%+). In general, people would need to make new calculations to see what is best, but going TMBR would still be reasonable with the right stock/land (but at a higher ratio than in the past), and it would weaken those with large land who stock late and would typically go no-MB theo.
It's hard to imagine how much of a load this would place on the public market, since it seems the standard destock is still TMBR, and while it would in general strengthen all set demos (farmer/casher/techer) it wouldn't be that devastating if more people go demo and the rest do a similar public destock (without end game conversion) over the same longer periods TMBRs would spend jumping (when prices are typically quite low on the public market).
It would definitely disrupt the usual patterns, but I disagree that there would only be demo finishes. Theo/casher is already fairly powerful at high land values and land-trading dicts would just stay dict. Prices are more or less mediated by private market defaults up until the very last day, but market supply and demand will align eventually (even if it takes a few sets for everyone to figure it out). Overall, NW's might decrease, but I think you would definitely see more variety of finishing governments for netters, though it is plausible that many of the top netters would still be demo. Unfortunately, this would make the C/I destock even more powerful (relatively) on non-alliance servers, and for that reason alone this seems like it could be a bad idea. Just my first thoughts.