Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I had an idea about something like an endorsement on your pilots license, that would basically be a PLEX that lasted forever. The idea would be that you aren't necessarily a capsuleer, more like a dust bunny crammed in a ship.

Bear with me because some of these aren't particularly well thought out, but the ideas I was juggling were things like;

Not allowed in hi-sec (?)

Required to transport physical ISK to spend it <3

No remote market/industial access

CAN train skills but CANNOT fly most ships <3

BPLEX could require "sponsorship" from an alliance for specialized cloning facilities, The same way clones in DUST are managed by faction/corporations. There would be expenses incurred at the cloning facility, and possibly income collected by the alliance. (?)

Limited market access, or fees assessed by your alliance


(?) = not sure about these

People don't seem to understand how a free to play system work. I will put it in a easy to understand format.

If they can't make money off you through subs, then they will have to find other ways to make money off you, IE cash shops, and expansion packs cost money. I want to see as LITTLE cash shop as possible, thank you very much.

Second class players? Yay.

So basically you want the ability to train up pilots who never undock in Nullsec for cheap, carrier alts, cyno alts, all those null sec alt accounts and -10 pilots that you just contract stuff to directly from your main

And do it at half the price of anyone else.

No... he's painting a picture where, under your system, everyone will be able to create a limitless supply of cheap alt characters that they can use to literally blot out the star in every system in the game for almost every combat related activity.

You think 50 account ISboxer mining fleets run by one guy is bad? Wait until you start seeing 5 guys running 50 "BPLEX" accounts using ISboxer. 250 frigates can wreak some serious havoc.

And no... cost will not be a limitation for rich veteran characters... or alliances.


-1 for the idea.

I want you to name one game, that uses ads that point to an out of game product, or a product that is not owned by a game company. I what to see this, and is not a cheap arse browser/facebook "mmo." Massive air quotes.

Also, you clearly don't understand how server cost, nor resource use works. By a player connecting they use up server space, even if a character doesn't have the ability to do stuff doesn't mean the "space" and "resources" isn't reserved for them, what do you think CCP has? Switch board operators to say, "oh this guy doesn't need that much space anymore." No it automated, buy connecting they use up resources, and bandwidth. Also, server cost in general only go up, once they upgrade their servers, thats it, done is done mate. You can't just magically downgrade those servers because you want to save cost. You then make all the servers unstable because downgrading means even more work on limited hardware.

So to be frank, your post is a crock of bull.

Oh cool, links to wiki, which by the way can be edit at any time, none of the games in wiki are mmos that have ads, cept for that sony social media game that quickly died out for the PS3, and all the mmos that have expermented with the IGA, as it called on the wiki quickly quit because not only does it cost them money to place those ads there (you know, the fun bandwidth and server storage space they take up)

Oh and the Everquest game, when they did it, they provided a service, you could order through the game to get a pizza! How cool is that, bet they were still getting a cut out of it. And you still had to pay to play the game, that lasted a whole good? What? Oh wait, it never went though it was just an experment. Look at that, you basically debunk yourself with your own proof. Thanks for the update on what I already knew.

Once again, please point me to a single, non-browser/facebook based mmo that uses in game Ads. Thanks.