Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Comparing to air-miles doesn't work at all. There are already too many differences

In RL the customer/client is the traveler. In Eve, the corporation is the customer/client. Which means that in Eve LP flows from the customer. In RL air-miles flow to the customer.

LP flowing in the opposite direction is a very big difference. So big that your comparison does not hold.


But my comparison with scrip, that does hold. Scrip was used to pay workers instead of cash. LP is used to pay capsuleers instead of cash. In both cases, it's flowing to the person that provides the service. The differences between scrip and Eve LP all come in what you can do with them after you have acquired them.


Besides, lore should never be an excuse for bad gameplay. Do you have any gameplay arguments for preventing LP trading ?

What makes you an authority on the subject ?

Sounds like a good suggestion to me.

You created a character with a gimmick name, that's not the same as an argument.

+1 supported

Bump for my suggestion, anybody else in favour?

LP is already used as a currency by both capsuleers and NPCs. Starting from the moment the NPC corp pays the capsuleer in LP. When we cash out LP, we don't buy stuff to use directly, we buy stuff that we can see for ISK.

The only difference between LP and a currency is that we can't trade it between each other.

Making loyalty points acceptable within each faction ie amarr constructions, tradeable with amarr navy. Would allow a lot of spread LP to be consolidated to purchase something useful, works for concord LP why not for others?
While i am not against having them tradeable, it could have economy balance implications and therefore could require more work than is justifiable for the gain.
There's a lot than can be addressed with improving LP that would have a greater benefit to all, for example addressing the tag requirements that haven't changed with the FW changes and change in availability.

Tl;dr
Allow use of faction LP in the same faction store.

It could work, wouldn't make sense for the lore but who cares.

First thing they need to do is diversify the LP stores, though. Military divisions should not be offering the same wares as manufacturing conglomerates.

Because if the game worked the way lore would have it players would whine and ***** that the game has too many restrictionsand makes it hard for noobs.

I've got little bits of LP scattered around dozens of corp on various characters. However, while it would be nice for me to be able to convert and use them, this suggestion comes with the problem that everyone else will also be able to do this. It will result in more LP coming into use, prices of LP goods will generally go down and the distinction between working for different NPC corps will become blurred.

In short this suggestion amounts to a dumbing down of Eve. This game benefits the diligent and intellegent player. Those who do their research, plan their activities and put the work in where it is needed. But this suggestion caters to the:

"Wah Wah! I've screwed up and wasted my time on the wrong corp, make it easy CCP!"
"There, there little boy, here you go, just convert your bad LP to good LP, simple!"

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Please use valid arguments to support your view, this is complete rubbish.

1. Making LP that is currently unused suddenly easy to convert and use is an Isk generater, not a sink, whether you tax it or not.
2. It is already easy to work out who is the best corp to work for and you have even linked a tool in the same post to do that for you. If people are too lazy to do that or can't be bothered to grind up the standings with a new corp, giving them access to items from other LP stores without having to grind the standing isn't going to encourage them to grind those standings.