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CCPlease - In-game game time warning
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Decarthado Aurgnet
Imperial Combat Engineers
#1 - 2016-01-06 04:29:24 UTC
So, I have a simple idea which feels years overdue in implentation in my mind. Can we get a notification/evemail a day or two in advance of our account time expiring and/or automatically being renewed? I usually see that information in EVEMon as opposed to getting a big notification in the client, you know, where it actually matters. I realize there's a system by which an out of game email gets sent, but sometimes those things are caught in my spam filters for some weird reason.

Forgive me for being annoyed, but I had to borrow corp wallet money with an alt account in order to plex myself because I was forcibly disconnected for about ten minutes when my game time ran out. Bob forbid I'd been in a fight or something at the time.

Remove T2 BPO's or make them inventable at extreme cost.
Sobaan Tali
Caldari Quick Reaction Force
#2 - 2016-01-06 07:02:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Sobaan Tali
Ditto. In game, please. Because another 3rd party program alerts you to it just sounds like an excuse to avoid adding it. We get more caution and warning popups for server DT than I can shake a stick at (which would also be nice to suppress while we're at it since the lock you out of doing anything in client until you click on "okay"), but not one simple line on my character sheet showing next account end date to speak of. CCP, stop acting like my ISP, pliss.

There's other ways to incentivize using account manager. I go to that site for other reasons, too, you know?

Edit: Btw, at least bring back PLEX displaying your next end date when you use it. They use to do that back in the day, but no longer for some reason.

"Tomahawks?"

"----in' A, right?"

"Trouble is, those things cost like a million and a half each."

"----, you pay me half that and I'll hump in some c4 and blow the ---- out of it my own damn self."
Solecist Project
#3 - 2016-01-06 08:06:56 UTC
I agree fully.

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Danika Princip
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#4 - 2016-01-06 10:59:04 UTC
If you're using PLEX, top left on your character select screen.

If you're not, CCP need to make this work for subscriptions too.
Celthric Kanerian
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2016-01-06 13:05:26 UTC
Unless you have a lot of alts, I don't see much point to this.
Gadget Helmsdottir
Gadget's Workshop
#6 - 2016-01-06 13:21:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Gadget Helmsdottir
Celthric Kanerian wrote:
Unless you have a lot of alts, I don't see much point to this.


However, for those with a ton of useful alts...

Yes, Please!


This doesn't affect the game so much as help in keeping retention. Every time that a sub or Plex-time ends for someone, there's always the chance that the pilot will just say, "screw it," and let the account languish.

I fail to see any Risk v Reward, or game imbalance issues. Just a bit of Dev time for whenever this could be implemented.
No, it's not a 'pressing' issue, but it is an issue that needs to be looked at sooner or later.

+1

--Gadget

Work smarter, not harder. --Scrooge McDuck, an eminent old-Earth economist

Given an hour to save New Eden, how would respected scientist, Albertus Eisenstein compose his thoughts? "Fifty-five minutes to define the problem; save the galaxy in five."