Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I am going to put this idea out, knowing quite well how some will hate it, but it is something I want CCP to consider.

Create a sub forum, which is only accessible to players who are paying for their game with a subscription or by buying GTCs. More precisely, make the sub forum inaccessible to players who only play EVE with PLEX.

What is the point? Only players who pay for their game with money also show an actual and believable interest in the company's financial success and only such players shall be heard on this sub forum.

I know it is a harsh idea, but seeing how some players do absolutely everything only to play for free (including botting) and yet voice their ideas and opinions everywhere might it be a good idea when there is a sub section on the forum where CCP can get at least the guarantee that everything said comes from players who have paid them money. It might give CCP a better picture of what players want and what they are willing to pay for.

CCP might want to look at how the communication between us and them was before and after the introduction of PLEX/free-to-play. Could it be the reason, or one of the reasons, for the miscommunication?

Eve already has paying-customer-only forums. They're every forum other than the Trial Accounts forum. CCP actually gets a tiny bit more from PLEXed accounts rather than credit card accounts due to the fact that PLEX cost more than $15. Trying to break people up into a caste system is just stupid.

umm, you do know scammers plex accounts quite easily, right? the dark side of eve of eve has little to no issue running the main and the forum alts full plex.

Since you say goons...here's how mittens got votes 3-4 at a time. Cap main, 2-3 cyno alts with the "jita" alt for scams/trading on it.. Cap mian spams havens, "jita" alts does the gimme 1 bil and I'll get you in goons, and spams 0.0 incurisions and finds the occassional ratter with shinies. All the isk needed to plex several accoutns right there. Or runs 0.0 PI if not enough.

If you want true paid only access....can't be plex. has to be 100% cc hit the account management screen per month. Plex....you have no quality control of member ship in the exclusive forum. All the mittens, snotshots, even derek chu's of eve....generally have no issues plexing and would be in the club as it were.

If you want quality control gonna have to leave these boards. Go to places like failheap. If you can deal with the ban 11's, the minimal post count before you even get to post in some forums....gratz you found your exclusive forum home. You get some good posts from people who don't even play the game since oddly enough...the more eve changes the more it stays the same in some regards.

I hate to ruin a good idea, but I would begin paying for this account with IRL money should this go through. Just so I can make sure you don't make more stupid threads like it in the exclusive subforum.

Because:

A) I was partly joking, I already pay for one account by direct debit.

B) Terrible ideas like this spam the forums, ruin discussion for everyone, and bury the few decent threads that crop up.

C) Stupid people don't deserve to be sheltered from the opinions of smarter people.

Yes, that's what this forum needs: divisive elitism. "Hurr durr we deserve special treatment because we don't plex."

Why do you want to punish me for 1) being good enough at eve that I can afford PLEX, and 2) being frugal enough to save my hard-earned money?

CCP should make a subforum where only OPs who use bold text are allowed. The entrance fee should be one million US dollars, to be delivered in un-marked, out-of-sequence, one-dollar bills. Or gold bullion. Only people who have their own superyacht should be able to post, the others should be read-only. For reference, if it isn't big enough to have its own helipad, it's not a superyacht.

People who play the game enough to earn a plex for their character have no idea what constitutes fair/fun/creative gameplay?

Those same people don't invite friends & enrich the game for others and as such can have no game enriching ideas?

You feel entitled to have your own soap box to stand on while threatening not to pay any more money if you don't get your way in front of everyone else who pays money?

It might be number 3.

Not going to work. In fact its likely to encourage *more* grief, since you've now created a forum that is not searchable by Google et al (therefore immune to most corporate and other background searches).

The original Second Life forum (circa 2004-2007) was setup this way, that only residents who had payment data on-file could access it. Nothing I've seen here even comes close to what I've seen over there (in particular their GD - which was eventually scrapped, after two attempts to revive it).

Your idea is dumb and based on "omg, all plex users are botters!!!!!". Some of us actually simply know the game very well to make isk the easy way, so they should probably listen to us more than mere subscribers. Also, you do realise that people who use plex actually net CCP more income? I propose that people who use subs are only allowed to post in a specific S(cr)ub forum.