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Amhra Rho
Accujac Elimination
#1 - 2013-09-26 21:00:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Amhra Rho
By doing two things:

  1. Creating several new rare ships for the purpose rather than tarnishing the classic ones, and
  2. Asking SOMER Blink to purchase those ships. SOMER Blink is a for-profit, fer gawd sakes - a rich one - and they're going to make bigtime isk on those ships. They for damm sure can afford it, and by purchasing them, they'll more or less earn them rather than getting a big wet kiss from CCP.

If CCP does both these things, I'm happy.

Now this might not be the only solution, but I think it's smart at this point to come up with possibilities rather than just moan and complain. It's safe to say that CCP gets it by now. If you've got a different solution, then knock yourself out - this is the place.

There's real reasons why your Eve character doesn't do /dance.
Amhra Rho
Accujac Elimination
#2 - 2013-09-26 21:47:33 UTC
Literally upon further review . . .

CCP decided pretty much exactly along the lines of my proposed Step #1. I still think SOMER Blink should purchase those ships, though, for the reasons stated above.

There's real reasons why your Eve character doesn't do /dance.
Captain Tardbar
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#3 - 2013-09-26 22:18:54 UTC
Wouldn't it be more fair if they just had an EVE lottery, where everyone had one ticket per account?

And that in order to win you had to apply for it to prevent the ships from going to someone who didn't want them?

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Amhra Rho
Accujac Elimination
#4 - 2013-09-26 22:34:02 UTC
Captain Tardbar wrote:
Wouldn't it be more fair if they just had an EVE lottery, where everyone had one ticket per account?

And that in order to win you had to apply for it to prevent the ships from going to someone who didn't want them?

Yes. How's that for a one-word answer? In fact, I've been appealing to CCP in some of the current major threads to consider a trickle-up model for disseminating rare collectibles, rather than a rain-down approach, as follows:

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SOMER Blink has more isk than Jita, and doesn't need free slag from CCP. It rubs players the wrong way, and for good reason. Make S'BLink pay for them - lord knows they can afford it.

And consider a trickle-up approach rather than a raining-down approach to high-value desirables - goes over better with us humble poor pilots.

There's real reasons why your Eve character doesn't do /dance.
I Love Boobies
All Hail Boobies
#5 - 2013-09-26 22:49:06 UTC
Who wants to bet SOMER's alts end up with a lot of these prizes? Just because someone is deemed trustworthy in the past, doesn't mean they will remain so in the future if the pie is worth taking.
Lord LazyGhost
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2013-09-26 22:58:12 UTC
1000 tikets sold for it 999 belong to blinks alts/ghost alts
Amhra Rho
Accujac Elimination
#7 - 2013-09-26 23:03:20 UTC
Another reason to go for the lottery idea. If CCP took SOMER Blink's trustworthiness temperature before they started this thing, they'd find that it's just about at "death warmed over" among the pilot population.

Rightly or wrongly, that's what people think about S'Blink. Somer Blink might be as ethical as the Amish, but it doesn't matter - pilots' perception of them does.

There's real reasons why your Eve character doesn't do /dance.
IHaveCandyGetInTheVan69
Crouching Woman Hidden Cucumber
#8 - 2013-09-26 23:07:20 UTC
It's ok though because now the blink alts will get some different unique ships so all is well.