EVE General Discussion

You will all be pleased to hear that because of the uproar from the community SOMER Blink have decided to redistribute this new-found wealth in the most appropriate way they can think of, by generating true, ingame content.

Over the coming weeks the Scorpion Ishukone Watch that were gifted to SOMER Blink members will be auctioned off and the proceeds will be donated to Goonswarm Federation and the CFC. In turn, the CFC will use this isk to form and fund a new squad which will be dedicated solely to taking over hi-sec POCOs when Rubicon goes live. This will serve to accelerate the changes that CCP have made to the game and give both nullsec and hisec players weeks if not months of new content.

I for one would like to thank SOMER Blink for doing the right thing and returning their questionably gained wealth back into active players hands.

Indeed.

People don't say "there's a thread of 65 pages filled with varying opinions",
they say "there's a 65 page threadnaught about how CCP ****** up".


*gggggg*

You do know that you are indirectly helping the side that opposes your opinion,
simply by posting in this thread ... right ?

We are here because we have something to defend.
You are here because you have nothing.
Just as each time you post. Since years.

First... isn't themittani.com basically the Fox News of EVE? Hasn't he basically said he wants to control "the media" in EVE? Are people really freaking out this much just because an article told them to?

To compare this to the T20 stuff just seems absurd. To say that they need to be more transparent about this or assess the reality of providing these items is fine, and justifiable, but to start talking about CCP employees secret plans to print their friends ships, just seems a little far to me.

I think one thing that needs to be clarified and defined in words, is the value of aesthetic items. In most games, people don't give a crap about giving out aesthetic items, because they have no value. But if you can turn around and sell that aesthetic item for the in-game currency equivalent of a small fleet of capital ships, I don't think it's quite as clear-cut as before. And I think that's where the problem lies with doing things like this in EVE. There are enough collectors in EVE that these are worth a ton of money, that can turn into real-game power.

It's not the stats of the ship I would ever be worried about, it's the value in ISK they immediately hold from being rare. The problem is that ANYTHING would be like this, because it's EVE. Unless you make it a ship you can't fly or blow up, or trade and sell, the problem will always exist. Whether it's a custom ship, or a diamond monocle, someone can sell or destroy it. And to remove that, would make it not EVE.

So if you want to keep things EVE-y, they need to be sellable and destroyable, which means I don't think you can really have a way to recognize in game groups with a reward unless you accept the above problem of those items then being extremely valuable ISK wise (even if they are useful themselves).

Who cares? It's a video game board. What's gonna happen, the NSA gonna come get me for supporting CCP.

By the way, if any NSA agents are watching, I LOVE the current President, his family, even his dogs. No need to fire up the black helicopters!

(i could never advocate this in real life because of my job, but here I say "you fellows need to light up some of that "good green" and let your cares fly away" )

The only issue is the items that are being given out. If CCP wants to give fan content some recognition, why hand out something that impacts purely game's economy while not denting CCP-s revenue slightest bit?

They took the easy road to not spend a penny and put the players to pay for their gift.

In the end, we should be looked as the gifters, but has CCP asked our advice? Has any polls been made recently?


(I saw this thread spin up few days ago while on a trip and immediately wanted to say that showing appreciation to fan sites is good. After letting it settle in I came to the conclusion that CCP-s method is wrong.)

Still waiting....

Some have already unsubbed, but while their accounts still have time, are here expressing their views in hopes of something productive coming from it. Others feel that it is premature to cancel accounts before we have heard an official response from CCP; there may be other details or issues we are unaware of that influence the decision, or CCP may come up with a resolution which placates some of those upset by this issue.

Either way, if you don't give your two cents, how do you expect to get any change?



I'm pretty sure you are thinking of "epidemic", not "endemic" (the use of "endemic" here is referring to the first adjective definition, "natural to or characteristic of"). Don't worry, the two are often confused as even most native English speakers don't understand the difference.

[citation needed]?