EVE General Discussion

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better idea

You do know that one needs to actually transport the datacores in order to make any money, right?

RP accumulation is passive, yes. But the ISK received from the datacores gained through RPs is not. The wallets of datacore sellers do not "ping daily with millions of ISK just for logging on".

That is the 'false premise' the OP was referring to. Datacores are neither a truly passive source of income, nor are they an isk fountain.

In order to make money from RPs, they need to be converted into datacores and then transported to market. There is action involved, and thus, not passive, in the same way PI and moon mining are not truly passive sources of income.

Also, datacores are not an ISK fountain. They do not inject more ISK into the economy, merely move it from one entity to another. Bounties and missions are ISK fountains, since they create ISK.

Not worth setting up anymore that is. Before the agant quality changes with 3 chars on an account you could fund that account with a PLEX p/m with cores.
It also took way longer to setup though, no dedicated security agents in R&D corps so you were stuck with courier missions with the occasional pewpew mission.

I fail to see the reason to get so worked up about the DC changes though, if in the process FW is getting some love than overall the game is moving forward and that's way more important than a few 100m a month.

You need to dig through his post history. Look at the alliance tournament when he had a rage and flat out insulted players (in the alliance tournament section, last year or two back, can't recall). Then take a look at how he mocked players during the famous Door event where we were (rightfully) pissed at him last summer.

You could also bring up his poor attitude, always trying to joke away serious discussions and constructive argument, or discuss if he really understand basic game concept/mechanic, but that is a bit harder to measure.

To his credit; he react fairly fast and is somewhat witty, so he works excellent as AT-host on EVE TV. But apart from that he shows a disturbing lack of people-quality, in fact what I posted above is just simple examples of how he directly insult and discredit the playerbase. The sad part is, the only reason someone like that can keep his job is because of a) incompetence of his bosses, and/or b) poor/buddy company culture.

There's absolutely nothing about CCP Soundwave that gives any kind of confidence about CCP, whatsoever, unfortunately. I wish him the best with his life and hobbies, but he should leave this game asap before he ruins it even more. And he should take his bosses with him.

Would that it were a CCP employee had the insight to know what to shake up and where - why. I find it difficult to believe with all the blatant inconsistencies with which EVE is rife, that crew has a clue. Why else would they resort to hiring an economist to tweak the market...with no significant result. In fact, the more they tinker with their toy, the more unstable it becomes.

Be honest. If Alex Trabek suddenly started choosing topics, would you believe he didn't know the question beforehand? A bunch of boys in a garage invent a game, then put it online to increase the population so they can play with a whole bunch of other people...it's not a business...with them writing the code there's no hope it can be fair.

Do mafiosos gamble in their own casinos?

In six months you have a character barely able to do research. However in six months with a PO2 acct you have a nice Tengu pilot to sell at 5.5B. I'd call that a fine return for logging in a total of less then a day. Best passive income in the game, IMO.

I doubt we'll see that moneymaker nerfed any time soon.

Mr Epeen