Missions & Complexes

Guys and gals, CCP has no motive to fix this, or anything else in this game that one does to make isk. They just want you to buy plexes and GTCs. Its a cash cow for them. Why would they change?

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Nope! Please try again. If you had a brain you might have come to the conclusion that they want people to get involved in better content like incursions, wormhole space, FW or to leave their parents' house and get into dangerous space via much of the aformentioned content OR just to run anoms in null. OR you could go with the conspiracy theory that they did this because there is too much isk in the economy and they want people to mine.

You mistake High Sec for a place to reside, rather than the playpen that toddlers find themselves in. High Sec's purpose is to teach players the rudimentary aspects of the game in order to enable them to move on. I won't say what is the endgame simply because I find that WH space, Null, and LS have their merits (I've lived in them all). Missions becoming more difficult gears the player to accept a higher skill cap for his everyday capsuleer life. The difficultly in HS missions compared to the rewards of LS, WH, and Null SHOULD pre-empt an internal consideration of "could I make more flying elsewhere?" The answer is yes. It will take some time, but hopefully you L4 lifers will realized the validity of moving somewhere that has more risk but much more reward. Hell, roaming LS I make hundreds of millions an hour just scanning out sites in empty systems. Given I don't so that as a grind but more like a monthly outing, but the message remains the same: High Sec will likely become less and less profitable for the grinders. Adventure waits for you elsewhere! Get with the program and beat the crowd.

If they are nerfing ISK income then how are people going to afford to buy PLEXes in-game? As demand decreases the price will fall, and so less people will spend RL money on them because they're not worth as much. Your logic fails.

You realize that you don't have to pvp in low or null sec? You just have to put in a little effort scout wise and you are actually safer than in hisec.

You do realize that every account active is paid with legal tender? It's not like CCP decided to give everyone free gametime if they manage to make 600 milion ISK per month. People buy GTC and turn them into PLEX. Then they sell PLEX for ISK.

CCP will always make their money, no matter how many people are paying their gametime with ISK...

The point here is this, all these complaints about botters, people making isk hand over fist by burning missions, yada yaday, is all a conversation about how they are taking advantage of a system to stuff their isk wallets; all the while those crticizing it are doing the very same in alliances/coalitions running a cartel like control over tech moons and such.

You guys say, "they have to move from hisec and get in the game (wh space/0.0)", but explain why GTCs? If the ultimate goal is to get people to play the game, why even offer GTCs? If CCP wants to push everyone to 0.0 and such, just reduce the size of hisec by 2/3rds and get rid of all missions. GTCs don't encourage game play, they encourage pay to play. The honest truth to it all is CCP has no motive to fix missions or any other mechanic that could possibly make someone independent without being in large alliances/coalitions. Why would they?

Just face it, this game is nothing like it was 4 years ago. In my opinion its nothing but a griefers game. At the end of the day, CCP will bury this game like SOE did with SWG (who started same time EVE did). This is not a game you can casually play. This is not a game you can play a couple hours at a time, and that's what will eveuntually kill it. Not everyone want's to be in the CFC. Not everyone wants to be griefers, and not everyone wants to pay to play because hisec adventures fail to keep up with the surge of ISK flooding the market.

Get rid of GTCs, see how fast the markets fall.

You are comparing EvE with SWG? That is hilarious.

Secondly, GTC is a good barometer of how ISK is moving through the game relative to those buying them on the online market. Because of this, your logic is flawed. People can only sell the PLEX for as much as willing to pay for it, and if you pay attention to CCP reports, about 3/4 of PLEX is being withheld due to speculation. If people get poorer on a wide enough scale, you will see PLEX prices go down. CCP is slicing the non-risk Isk faucets to the game. When Incursions took the hit, missions were soon to follow. Before that, anomalies took the hit. Now Moon Goo is being looked at.

By the end of the day, I fully expect ratting, DED sites, anomalies, and WH space to be the best Isk/hr ration of isk in the game (in ascending order) and I think that is acceptable given the risk/reward scheme. I know all the Hisec'ers want to be space rich like everyone else, but your lifestyle lacks the risk to do so. You can be space rich, but you can't be allowed to accumulate the wealth as fast as someone who lacks local (put that one in for you nullbears too!).

Don't disagree... The hand writing has been on the wall for quite a while now... Not sure I am ready to move back in a WH, although I am better prepared this time...