Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Greetings!

Ok, in an attempt to get some of my former corp mates back online and on here, a few of us came up with an idea. We were thinking that this idea, could make losing your last clone more bearable, getting back online after extended absences, more logical and increase the overall pew pew and manufacturing need of the game.

Lets say a friend of mine has been gone from eve for 2 years. Another friend, just got his pod blown sky high and forgot to update his clone *ouch*. Their boned, training time ect.. they feel let down. So why not allow returning players and/or people that have lost their stuff, to BUY back their time?

Saying I missed 6 months, no training. Ok yea, if I was here, I could of managed near 2400+ Sp's an hour. But I wasn't here. If say I payed, 10$ US to CCP, I could get 1 month of training time back at.. 1700 Sp's per hour, up to the amount of time I was gone. I do believe that this could possibly raise subscriptions once again, increase revenue for CCP (which is good..more cash means better development budget) And most absolutly mean, having more rooks flying carriers, BS's ect.. and getting into the thick of things. Which in that line, would mean more laughs, ships being destroyed and more ships needing to be built ;)

This would also keep those people beneith those that had actually been here. And sorry, there is no way I would let it be Plex'd in. *shrug* I've got 4 people just waiting in the wing. They want to come back but feel daunted. We felt like this could possibly alleveate some of that worry and push people over the resub edge.

There is more to it but thats the basis, any input would be freakin great.
o7 Corin

So what you are suggesting is taking away the advantage of staying subscribed.. and nullifying the achievement of those who have stayed subscribed and training for years...... seems like not that great an idea.

so lets replace your friends with another player's inactive alt account.


they see after new expansion ship xyz is really popular
chars who fly said ship are going for premium isk or kick ass for personal use
they wake up alt, they pay ccp to give them sp for ship xyz mastery
????
max fun or profit


TL;DR the danger is this is riskless char speculation. There is no speculation in fact. I for example for personal use picked minmatar as cap race on the pvp char. I am banking on one day niddy will be due for a change to make it really good if not OP. I take my chances with this. I rather be rewarded, hoepfully, for this gamble over a player just resubbing and walking into the same niddy minutes later.



If willing to pay for this why not just keep sub active and go elsewhere. I have been doing this most of the year. I stop in for a mission or 2 sometimes, try my hand at market pvp maybe. But by and large not a very active eve player.

Steam buys and rl has me elsewhere basically. I however keep up sp trains hitting isk savings in eve or just pay my $15 a month so when I can play more full time I am good.

they don't...and they won't. This isn't going anywhere.

So then why does that same logic not apply to letting anyone just buy skillpoints?

*Proceeds to make new account, then let it turn inactive. After 6 months I decide that the character has cooked long enough for what I want to do with it. I proceed to reactivate the account, and get back the training I missed on, all while saving a $30, because its even CHEAPER to let your account go dormant and come back later.

It's the game you can succeed in without even having to log in once every 24 hours!!!

Why does every bad idea attempt to claim that they will 'increase pew pew'.

It's like they expect us to go, "this idea sucks, it goes against everything Eve is and will definitely upset the balance and fairness of the SP system. OH WAIT... it will INCREASE PEW PEW... lets do it"

- make it worth the same as single plex (and impossible to buy batch with discounted price per single unit) - not using plex from the market, just tie pricing of this feature with pricing of plex on website.
- make those points available as char was 17 in all stats (minimum that stat can go under remap - this would count as every stat was at its lowest and totally ignored any implants) - that is 1500 SP per hour



getting back 1 year of SP would cost 12x 19,95 = 239,4 Euro and that would equal to 13 140 000 SP

Active subscription is 131.40 Euro (add 1 year gametime not using plex) and using perfect remap and +4 implants that are more affordable (not to go extremes with +5) it gives 2610 SP per hour totaling with 22 863 600 SP


So essentially you are getting a bit more than HALF of SP you could have gotten on active subscription while paying a bit less than TWICE the cost of subscription.


EDIT:

Did the math:

54887,21 SP per 1 Euro using buyback
174000 SP per 1 Euro on active sub

To answer the plex question. Plex is not just created out of thin air, players buy GTC convert them to plex and then sell them. So CCP is still getting payed just other players are paying for the plex users sub in exchange for isk.