EVE General Discussion

Advantages and risks... one can hope that they learned something from back in the days.

YOU are the """"""content""""", John.

I do solemnly swear by all things Beelzebub, frustrated game devs clutter these forums horribly with their airy opinions.
Where others use the word content, i use the word action. Because i am not a game developer and issues of design or balance are only of concern to me when they affect the in-game action.

Skill injectors are brilliant because they monetize the witless need to leap ahead SP wise, which only indirectly impacts the game because high SP pilots with no game knowledge cannot threaten the map as much as you'd think. Ten day old characters in bling legions are more tasty prey than sudden new lords of the field.

CCP seem to have a handle on this, all the turntable tragics yelping at the DJ about BPM are ruining the party holy crap.

Fun? People do something for something. Achievements, feels good man. Some people mine weldspar, some people fold paper and make origami. PLEX isnt really needed when you can play for free and achieve for free. And then, when you are maybe slightly more vulnerable, only a bit, when you feel it will really help you feel better, bam, you buy PLEX and buy yourself a beret..

As much as I enjoy the shortcuts in EVE I share your concern that with less miners, ratters, haulers and explorers there could be a lack of things to shoot at.

I played a game where you could buy/MT the base materials for crafting at one point because most players loved the crafting system but hated the grind for materials. Once the crafters could MT the base materials a whole niche of the game died and you couldn't find groups for "grinding mats 'n' taling trash on Teamspeak" anymore. The crafters worked all by themselfs and a bit of "ingame culture" died. Along with my profession to buy those materials from the farmer groups and sell them in bulk to the crafters. MT shortcuts can be dangerous and not everything most players want is a good thing for the game in total.



I think CCP wants to provide all kinds of grinds for ISK. Chilling and repetitive one like mining and ratting, team efforts like incursions, “cat and mouse” games like exploring, spreadsheet math like trading, puzzles like sleeper data caches and fighting ones like Faction War. But hardly anyone does the puzzles and I guess that’s why they didn’t make more of them. And a lot of players try to avoid the fights in faction wars. It’s hard to make fun ways for the players to fund their ships when the players prefer fast, easy and guaranteed ways to make ISK.

One of the things I liked best in D&D Online where the challenges. Maps with random elements that provided nice return for organized groups of players that had a plan, got the timing right and where able to communicate well. Most players preferred to zerg the same quest mindlessly over and over again, even if the reward per hour was less. And, I am not kidding, in the end you could buy the challenge rewards with MT. But the game was already dead by then anyway.

Make that Billions and it still won't be auto-awesome.

Perhaps there will be some Micro Transaction fix for that, but the local immunity generator runs on mini PLEX

Joking aside, the latest DEV post on the new PLEX topic seems to be rather sensitive and perhaps even reason enough to put down the torches and pitchforks.

If I cant have golden astero or stratios SKIN, then I want golden toilet seat in the real toiled for my CQ. Made of recycled Aurum tokens.