Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I believe there is a lot of good people on this game that wants to see it go far. However, I also believe a lot of people aren't putting too much into changing this game for the better. I believe if people had the ability to make real and a good amount of money from this game, they will do whatever it took to keep and make this the number 1 game out there.

I think CCP needs to give us the ability to do indirect things to make money. Things that won't mess with the gameplay, but things people will want to buy with isk or real money. I also believe CCP should profit side-by-side of us.
I think it's about time CCP allows us to make designs and non critical items. Like it would be nice to make some money for making some in game clothes, a new paint job for a ship, a new look for the inside of your room/jail cell.
I also think it's about time CCP allows us to make our own ships, and submit them too CCP. That away CCP can OK it, and send it out to the noble market.

So lets say your item shows up on the noble market and someone buys it. You can have an option to do 4 things.

1. Keep the money in the aurum state.

2. Convert the aurum into game time, and the rest in isk.

3. Convert the aurum into isk.

4. Convert the aurum into real money.

Obviously the problem with getting real money from a game is:

1. taxes

2. the rate at which your money is worth today

3. laws.

A simple fix to this is have it where whomever is in charge of their own taxes. (Kinda like a freelancer)
Have it where you can only get real money if CCP can send the money by PayPal. (PayPal should take care of the rates. Also this would mean you won't get any money until you meet a $100+ min)
If the gov do not want to work with what's going on, then do 2 things.
First, let everyone know. (If word gets out that xyz gov doesn't want their people to make money then it would make that gov look bad. Most likely it would force the gov to allow CCP to do their job)
2. Have it where the player can only do the first 3 options.


CCP will benefit from this for 2 reasons.

1. They will get some x% cut. (I think between 2%-15% would be OK)

2. It would bring more people to the game. (More game time= more money)

The players would benefit for 2 reasons.

1. Real money or in game money

2. The player can make things too make this game better

Not many people live remotely close to CCP (including me), and a lot of great designers already have primary jobs. Think of this as what people did for second life without all the sex.

This is a terrible idea, learn from diablo 3, making RMT legit doesn't work.

I am 50/50 on the BPO idea.

Anyways, you pretty much hit it when you said "make it so any and all players can make real money." If not real money, I would at least like to have it where we can make aurum, isk, and game time. It would be nice to make a really really cool thing, and have it pay for your game time by others paying in aurum (plex).

As far as the locations. Like many, I have a limited budget. (However, I did send CCP an e-mail on my voice control software for EVE Online. Hopefully they hire me over that)
Anyways, the answer to your question will answer why I'm not asking CCP to open a bunch of jobs.

As far as I know, the Real Money Auction House is nothing more than an auction house. What I'm talking about is 100% different. Basically what I'm talking about is

1. You can make clothing, paint jobs, and other things that doesn't really mess with the game play.
2. You then submit it to CCP or CCP has it where it's auto uploaded to the noble store since these items don't really matter.
3. When someone buys your creation, the system automatically takes x% out for you.
4. You then tell the system to send you real money via PayPal, aurum, game time, and/or isk.

I would also like it if you can make guns, ships, etc. The only thing that changes with those is CCP looks at the item. (They can pay for a team to look at the items by taking x% of aurum=plex=money from what you get)
The good thing is if you made a cool looking ship then at worst they can make it a cool looking shuttle.

I'm pretty sure second life is over there.

Look for the huge pile of pixel dongs, catgirls and paedophiles.

You don't get it, do you? If you start putting any ships into the NeX, then it will no longer be just "cosmetic and vanity items that have no effect on gameplay."

You will cause rioting and unsubbing the likes of which you cannot even begin to believe. For this one idea alone you deserve to be forcibly biomassed since you cannot be trusted to have the good sense to do it yourself like you ought to.

ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Last thing I'm going to say in this thread.

If you are so desperate for money that you're willing to risk killing the subscription numbers, get a job.

There are allready (illlegal?) ways to make RL-Money out of EVE.
I'm not using them because I don't make enough ISK to walk this path and would never do if I made enough.

Turning a leisure activity into an option to make a living for everyone is a dangerous step in my eyes.
If you want to make the EvE-Universe a better please apply for a job at CCP.