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Himlar is still CEO, get your facts strait. And most negative people did not really read the blog, or thought before penning stuff down.

Frankly, not really. An ancient player's subscription is not worth appreciably more than a new player's.

You could argue that older players have more accounts, but given that the account/player ratio is about 1.5, this falls flat on the grand scale.

The way it is now is NOT fine.
This new option as suggested so far -- also NOT fine.

What we DO need -- Simple fixes CCP REFUSES to fix -- Black Ops for instance -- Still can NOT use covert ops cloak!

The GOOD IDEA --> New structures - YAY
The Bad --> New Fozzie Sov -- Booo

U need us to spend more money? Regain our trust and faith so that we proudly buy things like Posters, shirts, etc.

QUESTION:

How did this go from an idea, through managment, then the CSM, all the way to being a devblog without even one person stopping and thinking, hmm I wonder what the player bass will think of this idiotic idea?

OPINION:

I for one hate this idea with a passion, it's worse then the system we already have. You could improve the character bazaar so much easier without all this...

SUGGESTION:

Create a in game area to buy characters, ok that's fine. Now create a system to rename characters at a additional plex cost. Done everything that you highlighted as problems in one go, and no one gets upset. This will require much less work to implement and also you get another income stream from charachter renaming.

MY EXPERIENCE:

I have bought a charachter in the past, however at no point did I feel I was being ripped off or being sold a shady charachter since I used this party tools like every sensible person who buys a toon does. I knew how much i was worth as I appraised the toon, so I knew I was getting a decent deal, and I checked the charachter history to see what it had got up to in the past.

So people buying toons who know the game are going to be safe, but those who don't know the game... Should they be buying a toon at all? In my opinion no. My main I love as I built him from scratch, there is pride in the skill points that I put effort into. Yes I did buy a alt, but I still had to work from the very beginning trying to make serious money selling shuttles all the way to ratting in wormholes with my pimped out proteus. So I think that an easy route to all that sp is a bad thing as all those mistakes you make on the way to getting that sp is invaluable and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

ADDITIONALLY:

Also nullified interceptors is dumb, yeah I know it has nothing to do with this devblog but I'm going to keep saying it till someone finally listens...

No, it can't, not practically anyway- you yourself gave the perfect example showing why it's impractical in the above nested quote.

You're talking about buying a whole new character, I'm talking about improving an existing one. There's a difference, a big one. If I have 2 freighter alts, and want a jump freighter capable character, I'd rather improve one of the existing freighter alts then buy a brand new character.

One of the things I've observed in dealing with newer players is the number of people who have dropped out over the years because they joined with the assumption that they could grind game time. Exacerbated when there were a lot of people in a single group who were of the same mentality - eventually lots of them burnt out.

Ironically higher plex prices has made this kind of behavior less common, as it has become less realistic.

I wonder if one of the unintended consequences of this change - if effected - would be that new players would end up constantly micro-grinding for more SP.

Community feedback has sharply limited value, especially in the case where an entitlement is being threatened.

Or make it that we earn some sort of lp to buy these Skill Packet with pvp kills. That way people will undock, everyone will get ""content"" and it's not pay 2 win.

In any cases the progression is too slow and the gap between fresh characters and veterans is too big.

So will characters be destroyed and biomassed when you extract SP? I would think that that would probably be better, or to enact some penalty on the donating character.

Idunno though, this is very similar to giving and selling blood. Sure, there might be some perfect cap pilots but someone somewhere is putting in the effort. They are still paying for a character slot with real $$ to generate those SP. CCP can then throttle the seeding of the SP extraction packs and maintain a price for SP.

In EVE, SP isn't an instant WIN, remember? So it's not quite like getting a level 99 character on day 1.

It does go deeper then that though. Older players for the back bone of eve in many ways, they provide the services, the support, industry, corp management an a bunch of stuff i dont understand.

Yes, new players could do this, and might, but don't say that old players are worth only as much as new. At the very least they have the benefit of proven loyalty.