It's zero sum for the lucritive activities. Wanna go ratting? Oh the BRM tanked because someone else uses the same system. Wanna go after npc sotiyos? There's

It's zero sum for the lucritive activities. Wanna go ratting? Oh the BRM tanked because someone else uses the same system. Wanna go after npc sotiyos? There's a monopoly on them and your alliance probably has deals with the guy involved in RMT Wanna go hauling? You hunt for public contracts against other haulers or join a private company and someone takes all the lucritive stuff. Or you have to compete to be the hauling company for your null-sec alliance Wanna manufacture? Someone else started manufacturing the same ship and tanked the market Wanna do reactions? The index is going up and taxes are eating into your profits because someone started using the same system as you. Wanna mine r64s? Yeah so do other players. It's a race to get there and the guy multiboxing 30 hulks is hogging it all. If you want to liquidate an investment you have to becareful with not crashing the market. And then someone else just dumped all their Isogen on the market so your net worth just got a big haircut. Almost everything other players do are hurting you. Yeah there's unlimited npc missions which give low isk rewards, but for the good stuff there's always competition.