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Stop re-releasing "limited edition" ships

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Sentamon
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#61 - 2013-04-12 13:26:06 UTC
*pretending to care about your dusty ship collection that you can't even show off*

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Turelus
Utassi Security
#62 - 2013-04-12 13:31:11 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Turelus wrote:
Better yet, stop making limited edition ships which sit and gather dust in hangers. Roll



They make you angry, bro ?

Yup! I would rather see these ships seeded to be used instead of gathering dust in collectors hangers.
The reskinned same stats ships should really have been kept back from being ships until CCP could release an actual way to skin ships, though I guess we could just add these to LP stores in futures so missioning for SuVee would let you trade a normal Heron for the SuVee one. (this removes the option of having skins be something like a rig that's applied)

As for the rookie ships, Echalon(sp?) these would have made fantastic little ships to add to EVE and have flying around everywhere, instead they're all sitting in hangers doing nothing.

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Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#63 - 2013-04-12 13:31:40 UTC
Venom13Games wrote:
CCP Nadir wrote:
Let me take this opportunity to say. . . . . . .the Quafe Catalyst is now available as a reward for the Buddy program.

The new "Catalyst Collection" reward option includes all of the following,


  • Quafe Catalyst
  • Intaki Catalyst
  • Inner Zone Shipping Catalyst
  • Aliastra Catalyst
  • Interbus Catalyst
  • Catalyst




https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=218879&find=unread


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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#64 - 2013-04-12 13:56:10 UTC
Turelus wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Turelus wrote:
Better yet, stop making limited edition ships which sit and gather dust in hangers. Roll



They make you angry, bro ?

Yup! I would rather see these ships seeded to be used instead of gathering dust in collectors hangers.

As for the rookie ships, Echalon(sp?) these would have made fantastic little ships to add to EVE and have flying around everywhere, instead they're all sitting in hangers doing nothing.



But is not that what happens in Real Life to the classic cars people collect ? And all those Star Wars toys still in boxes ?

Gimme a break.

That is the nature of collecting and preservation. Just because these are pixels does not change the dynamic.

CCP has decided to change the dynamic apparently though.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Jacob Holland
Weyland-Vulcan Industries
#65 - 2013-04-14 09:49:12 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
But is not that what happens in Real Life to the classic cars people collect ? And all those Star Wars toys still in boxes ?

Those old Star Wars toys, still in their boxes, and the Dinky toys which went before them were not limited editions. Those classic cars? Once upon a time they were just cars... Noone bought a Jaguar E-Type in order to speculatively preserve it, people bought them to drive them and to have fun.
If you had speculated on a collection of 78rpm audio disks then you'd find that the value of that collection (with very few notably exceptional recordings) crashed - the availability of the recordings in other formats (vinyl, CD, .mp3) and the difficulty of maintaining the required equipment to use them means that the majority of 78 collections are worth less than it would cost to find the odd gems within them.
Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#66 - 2013-04-14 09:55:49 UTC
It is a 10 year old game, what do you expect, they run out of creative ideas and just are beating the dead donkey for more money while they can.

Theyre future was WoD, they fecked that up, now it's Dust, that's a feck up too, now its whine-o-meter patching.

This reminds me of the Amiga dying, they brought out a CD32, a failure, then the 600, another failure, lost their way.
Felicity Love
Doomheim
#67 - 2013-04-14 12:02:10 UTC
Well, CCP can "re-release" a few State Issue Ravens right to my hangar, thank you.

Rare ships are far too rare in the first place, and what's the point if they aren't even SEEN once in awhile ?

At least seed a few every now and then so that they might actually be something more than a useless footnote in EVE history, because, as it stands now, the current definition of "rare ship" in this game might as well mean "non-existent" (and thus pointless) as far as the vast majority players are concerned.

"EVE is dying." -- The Four Forum Trolls of the Apocalypse.   ( Pick four, any four. They all smell.  )
IHaveCandyGetInTheVan69
Crouching Woman Hidden Cucumber
#68 - 2013-04-14 12:25:46 UTC
I used to have a moderate collectors hangar, when the first was re-released (can't remember what it was now) I decided it wasn't worth risking holding on to everything knowing CCP could devalue it all chasing a quick buck so I just sold everything and cashed out, haven't looked back since then quite a few would have been devalued by promotions.

I believe things like AT ships are probably quite safe, but things like interbus shuttles are probably in the danger zone.
Doc Severide
Doomheim
#69 - 2013-04-14 12:50:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Doc Severide
Nova Satar wrote:
War Kitten wrote:
The first release had black borders and more rounded edges on the pixels.

The new ones are all foil bordered pixels.

If you were a true collector you could tell the difference.


Im not actually a collector, but i just feel annoyed on behalf of the people who are when i keep seeing it happen.

Sound like a busybody to me. Let those people worry about their own problems. I think the whole thing is hilarious. Like you're gonna tell CCP what they can and can't do....

Cygnet Lythanea wrote:
I DO mind when CCP opens my hanger and divests me of billions of isk just because they can.

Well. It's their game and ALL their stuff. ISK, Ships, none of it really belongs to you anyway. They can do whatever they want. You have 2 choices. Play or Quit...
Vyanr
SKORPION LEGION
#70 - 2013-04-14 17:10:54 UTC
Oh man, just imagine if they gifted every 100m SP + pilot with a racial, State-issue battleship.