EVE General Discussion

Pay more for a PLEX ? No. Given the upcoming games in the market prices may even have to fall slightly to keep up with the competition (depending on how successful those are of course).


This basically. If PLEX cost more, people buy less.

Instead of charging extra for a PLEX to donate some money to NASA, why not have CCP make a special edition something or other, that might be worth getting, and the proceeds from that can go to NASA. That way, people who are interested in helping NASA could participate if they were interested, and everyone else would pay regular price for the PLEX.

Maybe a special addition package of kewl l3wtz. I'm thinking along the lines of a background (as an example)? So that when you pose your toons for a portrait, you can get a NASA logo back ground... People can see it in forums.... They would say stuff like, "Hey! That player got a NASA logo background! How cool! He/She must have bought it to help NASA with a donation. How cool!"

Also a special edition T-Shirt, a cool Jacket with the NASA logo on it. - All for your toons, of course. So, the package of loots would include a special edition background that you can use anytime (forever - it had better not expire) to pose all of your toons in front of, a T-Shirt with the NASA logo for all of the toons on your account, and a Jacket with the NASA logo (small one) in front and (a big one) on the back of the jacket too, again for all of the toons in your account.

So, how much would you pay (Proceeds going to NASA) for that? $5.00 (U.S.) for one item of your choice, $10.00 (U.S.), for two items of your choice, $15.00 (U.S.) for all three items in the package?

But I say take that a step further. Next year, it would be a package of items, with say, JAXA's logo. The year after that, it would be whatever Great Britain's space agency uses for a logo, then Russia, Germany, etc. There are space programs all over the world, and EVE online is a global game. So, it would be cool for players from around the globe to get such a cool package of loots and to get a chance to donate to their favorite space programs. Or players can donate to them all and collect all of the different logos for their toons. Except maybe China's space program. They're aiming to militarize space and claim the moon as Chinese territory. Blasted Communists! (I'm joking! I'm joking! I'm only half joking...)

Space travel is grossly irresponsible when multiple continents are poverty stricken. We should choose who we donate to. If you have more time than money then start a fundraiser for what you want to donate money to and get at it.

Exotic electro-physics and all that kinda fancy stuff was researched by the super-genius Tesla last century, much of his amazing research has been suppressed . Please do not donate money to these people....

Not going to give a dime to a massively huge organization in the hands of politicians. They don't want failure, they don't like risk.

Much better to focus on emergent smaller entities that are at the forefront of technology and aggressively competing to "get there first". Those are the kind of horses to bet on.

NASA this NASA that....
Why NASA? Why not the Chinese guys who seem very very very interested in space exploration already and are progressing rapidly with no budget cuts? Ever think of that?
Your money would be better spent overseas where it would do more good with communists launching **** into space.

Mmm... Yes... Lets send Justin Beiber into space but without a spacesuit. Also lets put some holes into the craft itself. That should solve that problem.

Genius!

But I think the op meant for the rest of us to blindly give our isk or cash to others who are smarter and can steward the proceeds in the intended direction better than the rest of us can.

Honestly, I am quite surprised to see such intelligence come from someone in a renter alliance.

Now back to the topic at hand. I too have a friend who is researching a warp drive. His name is Neonovus. Next time you pay 550m isk for a plex, consider sending him 50m isk to continue his research.

I must ask though, has anyone asked Chribba what he thinks of this idea?

No.

The impact from such funds would have negligible effect on any research.

Plenty of private and civilian space companies out there -- invest in those, because there's too much government interference and bureaucratic "oversight" holding back the next generation of space exploration if it has to go entirely through NASA's hands.