Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So they have to spend actual money instead of paying isk for a character? And this will just put new players even farther behind

First, It's not like effectively buying skillpoints. Second, CCP gets about 20$/2 PLEX from every character transfer.



This has nothing to do with new players vs old players. Older players are the ones with more in-game money/PLEX, so they would gain from this much more then a new players. So in effect this would mean, that older players would have even more of an SP advantage. Although it would just mainly mean, that if you're RL rich, you can bypass normal gameplay limitations and normal players have no way of ever competing with you in this area. The mere fear of this kind of thing caused people to riot a few years ago and forced CCP to make significant staff cuts.

As for game balance, the current system is balanced exactly because all skilling has to be done the exact same way with all characters. You can only buy what others are willing to sell you, which provides a natural limit for this. With unlimited SP buying you'd have potentially infinite SP entering the system and money would allow to bypass all consequenses, since you could always make a new character and just buy the skills you need.

The character in this context had to be trained before being traded, and that meant CCP was paid to have an active account to develop it's skills.

As to the rest, no... just no.

Stopped reading when it became apparent you had no idea what you were talking about, nor had any clue about why people buy characters in the first place.

No. Just no.

This.

The rest has been said by others.

plex used for transfer is not plex used for free game time. Therefore its rl money in ccp's hands as its not bypassing the $15 a month game charge. Remember plex is jsut converted gtc. Someone put down $16-17 for the gtc...and in a transfer that plex is not getting a player out of paying $15 a month.


Even better unless you catch a ccp deal they offer from time to time in bulk buys, gtc buys carry a surcharge as well. Thats an extra dollar or so over the regular cc pay method the source of the plex is paying.

This used to be a pay online only transaction. While I am sure they are being nice as a side bene, they probably had very good business reasons to change this at some point. I am sure the employees at ccp did not take pay cuts when this happened lol.

So kill the reason to sell characters thus ******* up that market, if you want skillpoints buy a character, otherwise do what we all did and train it yourself

I find it interesting how hostile people are to 'pay to win'... yet are so protective of 'wait to win', of 'win by seniority'.

Imagine a game of chess, except where the number of pawns each player gets is proportional to the number of years they have been playing. Where's the fun in winning like that?

I was appealing to CCP's greed... but what I really want is to simply buy skills in game with isk. But of course you all would riot and self-immolate yourselves in-game, to protect an artificial advantage.

So be it, CCP keeps some old players happy at the expense of gaining new ones. Except you don't hear from the players you didn't gain, they are quietly playing some other game. And EVE stays small.

Another post showing that you know nothing about EvE. New players can specialize in something and become on par with veterans in a relatively short amount of time.