Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I know this is a crazy and over talked about topic right now about the controversy over the rising PLEX prices and what to do about them and why they are going up. I don't want to say I found the solution because this game is a crazy sandbox, however here is my thoughts.

Factional P.L.E.X
Amarr P.L.E.X
Gallente P.L.E.X
Caldari P.L.E.X
Minmitar P.L.E.X

These time cards can be purchased by the typical fashion of LP+Isk and have the ability to be sold on market and on contracts. These can be sold off the current value of LP's and ultimately could be the same relative cost as say a Megathron Navy Issue with the LP+Isk cost. These can only be purchased in game, no real money.
What Happens to Regular P.L.E.X?
Obviously there will still be a great need for regular P.L.E.X's since not all players farm Loyalty Points or can buy with real money to sell for Isk like regular plex. And there will still be a need for PLEX for character transfers, AUR, Re-sculptures etc etc.

Faction Warfare
This will ultimately affect Faction Warfare because the more people can farm, the less it costs to stay subbed. If Gallente lose too much space, Gallente pilots will want a larger turnout to keep their subscription costs down, generating PvP content. So now you really do have FACTIONAL wars because Amarr pilots who either have to choose between helping Amarr out to allow for lower subscription prices (With the Faction Plex) or paying the regular PLEX costs.

But I'm Minmatar and in Gallente Faction Warfare, this is unfair!
Not really, since the average cost of plex should be constant with the highest Faction Plex. CCP should also consider allowing a limited time Faction change, all your skills stay the same, but you just change from Minmatar-Gallente etc etc. This can be done by your next clone you will be awoken as X Faction. After the free time it should cost 2 Normal Plex's to Faction change. Thus still keeping another necessity for regular Plexs.

Incursions Runners
Incursion runners can trade in the concord LP for the Faction PLEX they will need, so no real need of worry for Incursion runners, just gives them the ability to also save up for their own game time without the need to do Faction Warfare or Missions

Mission Runners
You should be fine, if you don't want to change mission hubs then just sell your current LP on the market for the isk to buy the one you need.

Downsides?
There will be a war of market between regular PLEX costs and the Faction with the most expensive Faction PLEX. Not a bad thing.

Tl:Dr?
Allows for more content and basis behind Factional Warfare.
Market Competition will lower Isk Based Subscription
Could be a huge content creator
Less time needed to farm to keep subscription, allowing for more time for leisure and pvp? If 80% of your time in game is farming to keep your subscription for your x amount of alts, if we can lower Factional Plexs down to the 450m-550m this will decrease farm time needed and possibly allow for an increase in PvP content?

The point of a PLEX is that a player paid for them. Your system does create them from nothing. CCP would not gain any money from that, which would be a silly thing for them to implement.

How so? People will still buy the normal ones to sell to avoid farming time? Since you can't buy the Faction this still creates a High need for the regular. Faction only supplies game time, not to be used for AUR or any other services. The need for regular plex is still there, players will still need to buy them.

I pay subscriptions, so not really. Would this not be a huge content creator in the realm of Faction Warfare? Reading the entire post helps. Not too mention player base is dwindling, and if people can afford to PvP more because they farm less, this lets me shoot at them more.

That's for the public to decide and CCP what they think is reasonable. It's the concept I want people to like, not my belief on costs.

It does not matter. As long as it is not generated by a purchase with RL money, no PLEX like items will ever be created by CCP. It could cost 500 trillion isk and a quadrillion LP and CCP would still lose revenue on it so they would still not release such items.

It is game time not paid for with real money. This is neither financially feasible not reasonable.

Selling PLEX on the market for player revenue only works because the amount of PLEX on the market is limited by it's cost IRL. If you somehow can build PLEX out of thin air for less currency than the ISK value of a regular PLEX, people will generate those PLEX. If it can't be done, then it will not get used because you might as well convert those currency to ISK and then buy a regular PLEX.

It should be easy to understand, CCP will not introduce a PLEX like item which can be created without a real money transaction.

imagine the pocket book of the few guys controlling the plex market. would make your alliance look super poor

Oh dear. Yet another ill informed OP on the Plex.

Let's hope for a lock.