Player Features and Ideas Discussion

No.

Not supporting.



The problem with your idea is that there are a number of professions that only need a minimum of skills (less than 1 or 2 months (or less than 5 million SP) to affect the game in profound ways.


Mining? You only need a character to use a Retriever. Get 5 accounts to do that. Once trained, let them lapse into "free" accounts and earn a steady "free" income stream (until the prices for minerals crashes from oversupply as everyone and their mother does the same).

Same with Planetary Interaction. Train 1 or 2 accounts for a month so it can use a hauler and manage planets. You never need to train it again and it will generate income (until the prices for PI goods crashes from oversupply).

Do you like trading? Enjoy manipulating the market? Train up alts or two in each trade hubs then manipulate the market in grand ways that pisses off everyone else.
Now watch everyone else do that.

Does a newbie want to be a scout for your fleet? Forget it. You already have a "free" account in a Rookie Ship to do that for you. No need to possibly compromise your fleet or your sanity by allowing someone you don't know and doesn't know exactly what to look for.

Do you like PvP? Train 3 accounts for a month so they can use a frigate or destroyer semi-decently. Get the rest of your alliance to do that too (which is easy if your alliance has a large income stream).
Now use multi-boxing software (which you can't reliably stop people from using) to create "zerg swarms" of cheap cannon fodder to assist your more expensive contingent.
Watch everyone else do the same.


Basically... it won't take much for people to create multiple characters to create "free" income streams for their main character (which will probably be the only account they will continue training). I know more than a few people who would let their alt accounts lapse into "free" ones if this idea went into effect. And I'd be stupid not to take advantage of it as well.




With PLEX... it was originally designed to counter RMT (and it still does a pretty good job at doing that). If you remove it, RMT will come back. And no, people will still buy RMT money even if they can earn lots of ISK by themselves.
Why?
Because if more and more people can make lots and lots of ISK then the value of ISK begins to decrease and prices for products rise (see: inflation)... which increases the need to have even more money... which creates a feedback loop.

You clearly don't know what the "Search" function is, do you?

On the other hand, I can shake market with 2 paid accounts now.

Please see the part:


It solves mining with too many characters and other multiboxing activities. Because operating multiple accounts on your own is a pure masochism.



I can have limitless newbie scouts now, need just another machine eg. notebook to run it.

Inflation is prevented by prohibition of multiboxing software and bounties reduction.

Nevertheless, liked your post. Thanks for response.

no



Why 2700/h?
Thats seems allot.
I am getting from about 1600- 2250 on all my accounts so i don't understand why you get such a high number.

I wish it could be good enough :D


There's one particular reason. I have issues with money to pay for GTC (really glad if you don't have such issues), and I spent 60% of my game time (or even more) on earning ISK for PLEX, which eventually (here starts the drama) bored me and forced to stop subscribing.

Thanks for participating in discussion.

No, this would completely kill the game concept and would turn it into a pay2win kind of game. Do you work for electronic arts or something?

Station/hub trade for a few hours when you have time or set up some PI and you will have enough. Especially with PI. Step 1: Train skills to set up a planetary infrastructure. Step 2: Set up planetary infrastructure. Step 3: Make money, f**k b**ches.

What year do you live in? It's has been at 700+ for months, and is currently raging at 830mil

I hadn't noticed. I just recently resubbed with RL money (which I get from my G.I. Bill, if anyone asks me how I have money if I'm unemployed), so I haven't had to buy a PLEX yet. I've recently gotten into station trading to try and build up enough isk for a PLEX. I'm not doing very well because I've never station traded before, so I'm still learning the ropes of how to play the market to my advantage, but I'm working on it. I heard that hub-to-hub trading pays a lot better, so I've been watching tutorial videos on how to do that. I haven't been making huge profits, but I'm getting there.