EVE General Discussion

I don't wanna see my Wiyrkomi ships going! The skin fits just perfect on any hulls.

Wiyrkomi Stabber: http://i.imgur.com/szAfg6Z.jpg

Wiyrkomi Brutix Navy Issue: http://i.imgur.com/QGnkGer.jpg

Wiyrkomi Damnation: http://i.imgur.com/UZh6XbD.jpg

Wiyrkomi Ice Mackinaw: http://i.imgur.com/1Bb95GO.jpg

Wiyrkomi Onyx: http://i.imgur.com/6jScQrA.jpg

Wiykomi Tempest: http://i.imgur.com/75AkHwd.jpg

Wiyrkomi Anathema: http://i.imgur.com/cS6spCP.jpg

Wiyrkomi Barghest: http://i.imgur.com/mNk7OYz.jpg

Bonus! Guristas Hijacked Raven Navy Issue: http://i.imgur.com/7oHxkQG.jpg


I say to CCP, leave the bug in until you got something similar and in proper working condition to replace the bug. Don't ruin it for many, MANY players.

Monocle gate 2.0. Skins for ships meant something. It meant you payed a lot of in game isk, and risked losing that skin every time you undocked. Permanent skins means no more police comets on killmails, and everyone flies around looking like a police comet.

Skins make ships non-unique, less of a risk to fly a status symbol.

At least in WoW you don't pay 30$ to paint your character's hair color.

What I thought was surprising is the apparent looseness of the programming implementation. You have this broad, sweeping system which is a great idea, but then you didn't make the SKINs designated specifically for each ship. That's what the bug tells me, anyway.

I've known what the SKIN system could do ever since the picture was released of all those cruisers with the hundred + color variations. Being somewhat more astute than the average player, I understood what you were doing regarding pricing.

But what good does it do for just one person to try to change people's feels. But now everyone knows what I knew.

To quote from the old saying Of someone asking directions, "You don't want to start from here"

There is another way entirely to think about this.
The starting point is how much is actually spent on vanity items via the aurum store, and how does it compare with subscription income?
When one has something like the quafe skins, and the luxury yacht, it drives subscription and monthly payments. This is where the real money lies.

The other thing that would be desireable, is to encourage people to utilise, actively, their subscription, this makes for more people in space, and more interaction, and a more engaging game.

So my suggestion, is to rationalise the aurum prices to a reasonable and consistent level and reward players with aurum for activity.
The mechanics are for you to decide according to your systems, but jumps, light years travelled, use of wepaons/mods/lasers etc would provide a good metric.

Focus on your core competency, which is your subscription model, and your core resource, the playerbase. And abandon this marketing wet dream, that everyone else piles into like lemmings. And fails at in the long term. And EVE is a long term committment, for all of us.

Turn the Aurum store into a loyalty reward system, a reward for your active customers.

By all means, if it has a real value, still allow cash purchases, but only as a secondary goal.

You have an amazing product, focus on it, be proud of it, and stop trying to nickel and dime, unsuccessfully, your playerbase.

You are better than that, deserve better than that, and so do your subscribers.

Your design, art, production and development teams have done amazing work recently, peoples interest and satisfaction have improved immeasurably. Turn this situation, from something that undoes their good work, through the impression of favouring short term greed, into a long term driver of sales and retention of both people in space and paying subscribers, both new, current, and returning.

Monocles were a WiS feature that is why they got so much rage, ship SKINs however are not they are part of where players spend the vast majority of there time.

Pricing it by ship class is very lopsided, and I strongly disagree with that idea. It's the type of subjective "cool factor" call that the pricing system is already guilty of. Compared to a set microtransaction price for one SKIN regardless of hull, varied pricing will miss players' perceived value by being high or low. A character can only pilot one ship at one time. For that reason just make it the same basic price no matter what hull or color.

You'll also miss out on sales by virtue of some ship classes being more popular than others. People who know better realize that smaller is more fun / has better stats compared to mass and sig radius, and cost. You'd be reinforcing that by making smaller ship classes cheaper to SKIN. Then you start affecting game balance with NES prices.

So yeah, that part is a bad idea.

http://imgur.com/yY2W7xh

Time to burn down a monument!

GG, CCP

I wouldn't recommend going near Jita for the next couple of days.

Hmm.... Priorities eh!

Shame you cannot fix the bugs with Mac client and 2 factor authentication etc as quick as quickly as you fixed the skins.

This and the length of time it takes to answer a service ticket ,speaks volumes about your customer focus CCP.

rip best feature