EVE General Discussion

It looks creepy xD

Evil terminator thing

The Ishukone shirt wasn't supposed to go back on the nex store - but it did and annihilated several billion in investments I made. I'll keep the monocle thanks

She did ask kindly; she didn't insist.

I think /not/ wearing it would be cutting ourselves out of quite a bit of potential status and/or profit later on.

Imagine if Chribba had never "exploited" the ability to build a dread in highsec. Would everyone come to recognize the veldnaught as the status symbol that it is today?

Perhaps one day the black monocles will hold the same recognition if CCP would be as kind as to leave the existent ones in the system.

Or maybe I'm just being greedy.

Nah, CCP should keep it in there, make all the people who actually wasted the money on the monocles feel foolish.

New products tend to cost more to start with as they also carry the research and development costs.

I'm sorry about that... that was a mistake on our part. But if you had the shirt before it went on sale in the NeX, you should still have the shirt, and you should have gotten a very rare coat in your redeeming system last Wednesday.

I have really, really mixed feelings on this.

When anything goes wrong in EVE, when there's any glitch that players exploit, it gets some degree of attention.
Currently, everything avatar-related suffers, primarily, from not getting enough attention. Glitches like this certainly wouldn't emerge with more testing and QA staff paying attention to incarna-related features.

When the FW exploit occurred, we ended up with a dev blog specifically drawing attention to FW mechanics. Suddenly, a whole lot more people started paying attention to FW, looking for their own ways to turn a quick profit.

When a unique version of a billion-isk item appears in some players customization screen, then of course it will draw attention, and in this case, I think all press is good press. It's high time that players actually payed attention to avatars and customization, even if it takes a glitch to get their attention.

All I want is to see players actually using and looking at avatar features so that we can /finally/ get over the negative press from Incarna's initial release.

Wearing this abnormal, attention-garnering item is the best way I can think of to vocalize that.

It's a statement of "Look what you get when you pay attention to avatars! Maybe you should be paying attention too!"

So unless you're going to force us to remove them, I can only see this as more of a blessing than a curse.

If it's going to cause some huge trouble to remove them from the avatars that already have them, then just leave them be.

I understand that, from a dev and GM perspective, you're probably not allowed to just let a leaked, unapproved item sit in the hands of a few players.

But from my perspective, I can't see anything more beneficial to furthering my own dream for what EVE /should/ be.

So this is my heartfelt though pointless plea for you to just let us keep them.

Like the inability to turn the tutorials off?

To be honest I didn't know what the release state of it was, didn't realize the type was in yet. We have not yet done all the work needed for that to get into the hands of players.

But this bug is connected to that. A small authoring mistake was made on the black female monocle when this item was added (shouldn't have been touched at all), resulting it being available in the character creator.

no... this is a bug like I say in my previous posts, and we are working on sorting it out.