EVE General Discussion

You forgot:
WiS = EVE is Dying™
I got ganked by russians = EVE is Dying™
Lost my freighter in Uedama = EVE is Dying™
Didnt lost my freighter in Uedama = EVE is Dying™

(those are the new trend topics on EVE is Dying™)

Yes, you are right. EVE is Dying™.

If this is the case I find it amusing how averse people are to paying real money for SKINs.

I think clothing should be bound to a character like SKINs. I also think apparel and SKINs shouldn't have market item entries. They should exist in account management only. That is, if it comes from the NES.

The move could be messy because there are stockpiles of apparel and SKINs. NES items could be refunded for their AUR value to keep the transition clean.

There's then the issue of AT and special event prizes that are coveted for their resale value. I will go back to my suggestion about shifting that paradigm to a general sale strategy. Instead of giving out limited edition vanity items and SKINs to a select few, offer those assets for real money to the general playerbase, and use the proceeds as prizes instead. Money has more appeal, to players outside EVE.

The NES and its items have the consistent trait of sabotaging their own values by existing on the in-game market. If they're affecting PLEX as well, perhaps it's time to do something about a system that harms the game with its life cycle.

There are items without AUR values that would be impractical to have several copies on one account. Phancas, for example, and promotional SKINs. Those would need to be reabsorbed into the redeeming system and treated like GTCs (I suppose), and traded on the forums.

Finally, remove the PLEX-> AUR conversion option since letting it stay leaves this hole in the **** wide open. Reverse it, even, allowing AUR to be redeemed for PLEX. Maybe even stop offering direct PLEX sales, straightening the flow of value to: Real Money -> AUR -> PLEX.

The only route to obtaining ISK for real money would be PLEX, like it used to be.

//this sounds crazy now that I've said it. I am assuming that AUR is affecting PLEX prices, and that it is harmful to the game. If those assumptions are wrong, my suggestion is excessive if not invalid.

Yes, because EVE is dying™.

CCP Sucks or CCP Blows. I took a good long look at the games industry being an artist interested in 3D art and animation. Researched it for a solid six months. I've decided to pursue advertising as an artist rather than games.

Fixed rate of AUR cost in ISK is a good question. I'll need time with that one too.

LP availability isn't a problem, I don't think. Bind it to account or generate a redeeming code. Dunno.

ISK to AUR makes sense as a sink, as long as the AUR items remain off market.

Not really.

If you are going to keep shop items off of the market then you may as well get rid of Aurum altogether and use isk to buy those items, then they would be isk sinks.

The fact that Aurum was introduced suggests CCP wants those items tradable.


Edit:

However, with ship skins being a consumable their isk value is removed from the game when you use them and learn the ability and hence at that point act as an isk sink.

Whereas clothing not being a consumable is not an isk sink.


Edit2:

If you could add clothing to your wardrobe permanently then they would become an isk sink in the same fashion ship skins are.


Edit3:

In regards to the edit and edit2.

You could argue that using the item adds something to the character and because characters can be sold those additions could still be worth something, so technically the isk value wasn't lost.

I'll let you decide.

CCP Terminus in another topic about PLEX/Aurum.

Yeah, options/choices are what sandboxes are all about. If you were directed to play in a certain manner then it wouldn't be a sandbox (i.e. questlines in other games, which you have to complete to progress in the game).

Sandboxes allow a character to be able to train everything, not predefined rolls like priest, mage, warrior etc.

But a PvP sandbox differs from a PvE sandbox, in so much as, you can choose what you want to do in-game but you can't choose what someone else wants to do to you.

Ok, I only read your responses in post #492 and answered the part I quoted.

I'll make a point of reading the rest.