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I'd say I don't think you understand the point of Aurum.

The way you get Aurum for isk is by saving up, buying a PLEX, and converting it to Aurum. That way you get Aurum goods without spending anything more for Eve Online than you already are.

This idea is awesome!

Someone else mentioned something to wear for completeing the tutorial. I think it would be appropriate to convert the certificate you get at the end of the tutorial into a wearable medal. As it is it usually just clutters up the asset page of your first character *literally forever*.

Not sure anyone understands the point of Aurum. Not sure if Aurum has a point.

You can buy AUR with PLEX or cash you can purchase goods and then sell them for ISK; you can use ISK or cash to buy PLEX. Why bother with Aurum? Its just another weird thing in the game that could probably be eliminated as needless complexity.

thanks for the nice devblog- to be honest I have never read a devblog that sounded so apologetic, almost afraid..

I have just one question:
Exactly how likely is it that we will get vanity skins for ships in the nearer future? Does it make sense to save my aurum for that possible painted sharkmouth that I have been dreaming of since day 1 in eve or will the only ever use for aurum be clothes?

Hmm as long it's vanity items only It's all good. There are lots of people that want the new clothing, I can't say its something that rings my bell but i'm certainly not against it in principle.

The moment someone offers game changing stuff, we burn the momument T hats been well established and I believe CCP has said that they wont do game altering stuff through Aurum or P2W.

Sooo bring on the new cloths, I still want my flame paint job for my rifter - hopefully this stuff can be funded through dev time paid for through the Nex thing. All good. Deep breath.

I still hate Aurum and micro-transaction with the fire of a thousand dying suns... but the release of assets is always fine, and the reduction in insane prices/smaller chunks of Aurum is at least conciliatory. Dropping them as loot is even better. This doesn't hurt anything, and I know there are people who want it. So no pitchforks.

But I'll bet there are plenty of industrialists who would gladly take over your textile operations, and make those items just like all the other in-game, player made items. I would beseech you to seed the clothing blueprints (patterns?) over into the market round about the time you strip the NPCs of their commodities and other sundries. A purely player built, player run economy would be incredible.

I would love to see an opportunity for players to donate graphical assets to for use with in the NEX store.

CCP would set the Parameters for what level of quality, style, and type of item That can be created.

If the item gets approved would receive a cut of Aurum to Spend as those donated items were purchased by other players.

This would inject long term Player content into the game.

Negatives:
I can see 3 people from Test and Goons working together to make 6 art object submissions that if place just right and looked at a certain angle would make a Penis.

[quote=CCP Unifex]Good to hear all the suggestions coming in. For those in doubt, the clothes shown in the blog are those you can get in the Factional Warfare Loyalty Point store for LPs+ISK. As mentioned in the blog, we will also be introducing clothing as loot drops in the near future.

So, people will be able to get some interesting clothing items without having to spend anything over and above their subscription.

Those who want to, will be able to spend to buy some other items from the Nex store. It's all about choice which isn't something we did in the past but we are doing now. You can choose to be involved or not. Each to their own. Live and let live

*snip* Spitfire microtransactions? Its quite simple. Get rid of them. The entire concept of the nobel exchange is a giant insult to EVE.

Yep, I know several groups - in between There.com and SL - who do good work, and may be interested in this kind of thing. So long as they can find a way to get payment that will afford PLEXs.

Seriously, some of the more hardcore folks inSL use Wacom tablets, since its excruciating using a mouse to paint for long periods of time.

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Regarding NeX, I'l again mention a couple suggestions:

-> Consider creating 'multi-color clothing' (allow you to change colors on the item), if needed restrict them to specific racials/faction core colors. They can be priced higher for a lower 'quality' item, because you're actually selling a small wardrobe pack. Make sure its a generic collection item, so new colors released are automatically seeded into existing purchase.

-> While you're on the subject of faction-LP clothing, consider extending this to ORE, SoE and the pirate factions. Actually, have an SoE shirt be the NPE item (as reminder to push you on to Arnon - put on the back 'Arnon or Bust').

-> Are the faction decals on V3 ships independent of the other layers? I mentioned in another forum that (as a long-term idea) it would be interesting to place a different faction decal on a ship (using LP + ISK or AUR, plus standings). Its not re-skinning, and it would be very amusing to fly an Ammatar Fleet Thrasher into Rens and see if anyone notices.

Please ensure you never permanently lower the prices (and keep sales to a short time, if you must do them - I'd rather you not have them at all!). The "for now" part in the quote above worries me.

Players do not control the market for clothes Aurum prices, so please give us some stability and protection of investments.